Pedro A.
Lima
Miami, USA
Product professional passionate about tech and financial innovation, currently building Nubank’s U.S. National Bank Charter. Away from the desk, I enjoy riding road bikes, hiking mountains and tinkering with devices.
About
You’ll be able to talk to me for hours about these.
Career
2026 – NOW
U.S. Market · Product Operations
Nubank, Miami
2024 – 2025
Global Crypto · Product Operations
Nubank, São Paulo
2022
Mexico Market · Public Policy
Nubank, Mexico City
2019 – 2023
Brazil Market · Public Policy
Nubank, São Paulo
Places
NOW
Miami
Moved here on my own. Liking it, but it’s too flat and hot. Excited for all the travelling I’m doing around the US.
BORN & RAISED
São Paulo
I love it and hate it. Wouldn’t live anywhere else in Brazil at my current moment in time.
1ST TIME LIVING ABROAD
Mexico City
Similar to São Paulo in many ways. Beautiful parks, squares and gardens. World-class museums. Great people.
Travel
2026 · ROAD
Gran Fondo Asheville
2025 · TRIP
Itacaré
2025 · TREK
Lençóis Maranhenses
2025 · ROAD
L’Étape Campos do Jordão
2025 · ROAD
L’Étape Cunha
2024 · TREK
Itatiaia
Tinkering
2020 – 2026
Homelab
Owning my digital stuff with a NAS
2026
Hermano
Building my AI agents with Hermes
2023 – 2026
Lemon Brain
I love Markdown.
Entertainment
MUSIC
Brasilidades
Bethânia, Caetano, João Gilberto, Jorge Ben Jor, Paulinho da Viola.
PODCASTS
Tech, politics and health
Hard Fork, Vergecast, Foro de Teresina, Xadrez Verbal, Huberman Lab.
MOVIES & TV
Sci-fi, drama, Brazilian
Interstellar, Inception, O Agente Secreto, Severance, The Bear, This Is Us, Game of Thrones.
Professional amateur
L’ÉTAPE BRASIL — 2025
Campos do Jordão
- DISTANCE
- 106.7 km
- ELEVATION GAIN
- 2,181 m
- ELAPSED TIME
- 5:33
Do hard things, Casey Neistat said. So I went and did my longest climb ever. You must enjoy suffering, at least a little bit. You’ll be thinking about the life choices that led you to be climbing a mountain on a road bike under midday sun. But the descents and views are worth every drip of sweat.
Professional trajectory
2026 – NOW
Nubank — U.S. Market · Product Operations
Miami, USA
Leading the end-to-end build of Nubank’s U.S. National Bank Charter.
2024 – 2025
Nubank — Global Crypto · Product Operations
São Paulo, Brazil
Custody Squad Lead, rollout of On-Chain Transfers in Brazil, scaled the Crypto Custody Platform for internationalization and built the foundations for Staking.
2022
Nubank — Mexico Market · Public Policy
Mexico City, Mexico
Worked on approval of Nu’s SOFIPO license by the CNBV and building Nubank’s relationship with the Brazilian embassy.
2019 – 2023
Nubank — Brazil Market · Public Policy
São Paulo, Brazil
Pix’s regulatory definitions and implementation, enabling Nubank’s success with Pix by preventing regulatory issues. Worked on instant-payments and open-banking foundations in Bacen and association working groups.
2016 – 2019
Internships — Law Student
São Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo Public Court, Madrona Advogados, InternetLab, Mundie Advogados, Basement/Kria.
2015 – 2018
Freelance — Web Designer
São Paulo, Brazil
Private consultants and the Associação Brasileira de Direito Tributário (ABDT).
Notes
Some written reflections (in Portuguese)