André is a Director of Engineering at Duolingo, where he leads engineering for the Duolingo English Test business unit. The team lowers barriers to access for higher education, creating technologies that are disrupting the standardized testing industry. He is passionate about leadership development and scaling high-performing teams with positive culture.
He holds a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from the University of São Paulo, and a PhD in NLP from the University of Tokyo. He has lived in three of the four quadrants of the world, and currently lives in Pittsburgh.