Allan
Silva
I turn ambiguous financial systems into products people rely on, today as crypto-native stablecoin payments for emerging markets.
Products that moved real money for real people, from a regulated bank stack to crypto-native rails.
& project leadership
crypto-native rails
served at bank scale
on a USDC card
From industrial engineering to crypto payments.
Thirteen years compounding one skill: breaking ambiguous systems into parts, then shipping them under real constraints.
Selected cases.
Four products across crypto-native and bank-scale payments. Numbers reflect work I led; partner names stay confidential except Bridge, which is public.
Crypto-native rails for emerging markets
0 to 1 stablecoin on/off-ramps across 8+ markets, via two provider integrations spanning LATAM and Asia.
Stablecoin payments on local rails
Pay local merchants from a USDC balance via QR and Pix, with instant FX conversion at the point of sale.
Turning digital dollars into global spending
A US-issued Visa prepaid card funded straight from a USDC balance, built with Bridge.
A two-sided payments product at bank scale
Payment Link, built 0 to 1 on the bank's payments infrastructure for merchants and their customers.
About
Across 13 years of building products and projects, my path has run from industrial engineering to crypto. Today my world is stablecoins.
I build crypto-native payment infrastructure for emerging markets: on/off-ramps, local payment methods, and cards that let people move and spend digital dollars across borders. My work lives where blockchain rails meet local payment systems.
My background is unusual for a payments PM, and I treat that as an advantage. I trained as a mechanical engineer and spent my early career in complex industrial projects, cost analysis, and supply chain. That work taught me to break ambiguous systems into parts, follow the data, and ship under constraint.
For the past 7+ years I've focused on digital financial products, moving from one of Latin America's largest banks to international fintechs. That bridge between traditional finance and crypto is where I do my best work.
- Citizenship
- Brazilian & EU (authorized to work across the EU)
- Based in
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Languages
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- Education
- MBA Business Management, BSc Mechanical Engineering
- Certifications
- Scrum Master (PSM I), Product Owner (PSPO I)
- Speaking
- Fireside speaker, Stellar Meridian 2024 (London)
- Community
- Volunteer, TETO Brazil