DAVINCI. Development AI

About us

A firm assembled out of operators, not recruiters.

DaVinci Development has delivered software for United States clients since 2020, working with a trusted engineering network in India. DaVinci Development AI is the Brazilian arm, opened to meet demand from large enterprises now committing serious budget to AI programs.

What makes the firm unusual is the bench. Our principals did not come up through consulting. They came up running the engineering, product and operating functions inside the companies that built the platforms — and they are on the work, not on the org chart above it.

Folio I — Founder

The firm is owned by someone who has to live with the software.

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Thiago DeSouza

Founder & Managing Partner
Boston, Massachusetts
Product & software background
Founder since 2020

Thiago founded DaVinci Development and has run it for U.S. clients for years, building the engineering network in India that the firm delivers through today. He opened DaVinci Development AI as the Brazilian arm to meet a specific wave of demand: enterprises committing real budget to AI programs and finding that nobody on the bid list has actually operated one.

He is not a consultant who advises on operations. He owns operating companies, and the software he ships runs them.

Alongside the firm, Thiago holds ownership positions across a portfolio of companies in logistics, fleet services and automotive retail — a last-mile delivery operation contracted to one of the world's largest e-commerce networks, a mobile fleet maintenance business, and an authorized service center for a major American EV manufacturer. He also holds a stake in an enterprise lead generation platform serving the North American home services market.

He does not sit in day-to-day operations at any of them. Each is run by its own management team against systems he commissioned — which is the whole point. The pattern across the portfolio is the same one he brings to client work: build the operating business, then build the software that makes it run without you in the room.

At DaVinci, Thiago sets client strategy, commercial structure and product direction, and personally sponsors every engagement the principals lead.

Last-mile logistics Fleet services Automotive retail Enterprise lead generation Automation-first ops

Folio II — Principals

Three people. One end-to-end framework.

A note on attribution. Everything in the career histories below was achieved at the employer named against it, not at DaVinci. Work delivered by DaVinci as a firm is on the Work page. We keep the two apart on purpose.

Technical and R&D leadership, deep-tech architecture and product delivery, and operational and financial governance. Together that covers everything between a signed statement of work and a running business.

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Swami Nathan

Technical & R&D Executive Leadership
Enterprise AI/ML integration · Cloud-native engineering at 1,000+ scale · Global capability center setup · Cybersecurity and telemetry
QualysSVP Engineering & India Site Leader
  • Drove AI/ML automation for vulnerability detection, risk prioritization, threat analysis and adaptive patching across cloud platforms handling 100M+ active global assets.
  • Built AI security governance frameworks covering LLM pipelines and automated remediation workflows.
  • Directed a global R&D organization of 1,100+ engineers across software engineering, QE, SRE, data engineering and DevOps.
  • Owned delivery for an enterprise cloud platform generating $650M+ in annual recurring revenue.
Rapid7VP & Country Manager, India
  • Established the India GCC from zero, scaling to 200+ employees across R&D, product management, a 24×7 security operations center and G&A.
  • Built a 360-seat enterprise facility in Pune and a leadership tier of 26+ engineering and operational leaders supporting global threat detection.
ConnectWise / ContinuumVP Engineering & India Site Leader
  • Integrated predictive analytics, machine learning and automated ticket/monitoring telemetry into the core MSP platform.
  • Architected high-availability AWS microservices and CI/CD across 20+ SaaS products.
  • Managed 500+ engineers organized into 70+ global scrum teams within a 1,700-person site.
V2Solutions · IMC · Symphony / HarmanVP Technology / Co-Founder
  • Architected real-time big-data analytics engines, ingestion pipelines and cloud backends for multi-region enterprise clients.
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Meena Sivan

Deep-Tech Architecture & Product Delivery
Agentic AI frameworks · High-transaction fintech · Conversational AI · Supply chain modernization · APAC regional rollouts
Orbiz India / Wayfong.comDeep-Tech & Agentic AI Transformation
  • Led migration of legacy on-premise transportation and logistics workflows to a cloud-native multi-agent AI framework.
  • Deployed autonomous digital workers: an AI Purchase Officer for procurement and inventory forecasting, a Logistic Planner for transport routing, and a Spare Capacity Truck Auction Agent for dynamic pricing.
  • Replaced monolithic code bases and deployed predictive risk models that reduced revenue leakage by 22%.
Li Digital / MoneyOnMobileChief Data Officer & VP Engineering
  • Migrated legacy digital wallet systems to AWS-native microservices and built enterprise data lakes for structured and unstructured ingestion.
  • Scaled core data platforms to 30M+ active users processing ₹4,000 crore in monthly digital financial transactions.
  • Built an automated credit scoring engine for SMEs and retail, compressing application-to-disbursement to 24–48 hours.
Cogito / VerintGCC Head & Site Leader
  • Ran global delivery of conversational automation, NLP engines and LLM-based autonomous security assistants for Fortune 500 contact centers.
  • Scaled the regional delivery center from 0 to 70+ engineers, doubled sprint velocity and held 99.99% stability through a 35% growth period — with full site P&L.
Axiata TelecomRegional SaaS Expansion & Compliance
  • Executed SaaS payment rollouts across four APAC markets including bKash in Bangladesh, designing risk-based behavioral models with local regulators and growing the active base to 3.5M.
Tata Consultancy ServicesMobile Payments Innovation
  • Conceived "Tata Cash," APAC's first mobile remittance service, securing executive approval and generating $3M in net-new revenue in year one.
DealJoshProgressive Web Application
  • Engineered a decoupled mobile-first PWA (React/Vite, Node.js, PostgreSQL) using Capacitor.js for native camera and GPS and Google Maps APIs for spatial mapping and real-time merchant deal publishing.
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Suma Pillai

Operations, Financial Governance & GCC Expansion
Build-Operate-Transfer execution · GCC site scaling · Headcount capacity modeling · Multi-location cost control · Statutory and regulatory governance
Rapid7 India TechnologiesSenior Operations Manager
  • Led end-to-end site operations across R&D, finance and HR, scaling India headcount from 50 to 200+ in six months.
  • Designed internal control frameworks and company policy standards, and partnered with R&D leaders on cross-functional KPIs, workflow optimization and vendor compliance.
Orbiz Analytics IndiaDirector & Head of Operations
  • Established the entity from scratch and executed a complete Build-Operate-Transfer cycle for an international client engagement.
  • Directed billing, AR/AP, payroll and statutory compliance (GST, TDS, PF, ESI, labor law), coordinating directly with STPI, customs and regulatory bodies on operational bonding.
ConnectWise LLPManager, Analytics (Consultant)
  • Led multi-location budgeting, cost governance and payroll analytics across engineering sites.
  • Supported executive leadership on compensation structuring, salary benchmarking and capacity models aligning staffing to budget.
Alyx Group (IMC / Alyx Technologies)Senior Manager, Accounts, Finance & Admin
  • Head of department reporting to the CEO, managing unit setups, ROC filings, EEFC and bank account setup, Shop Act licenses and STPI/customs bonding.
  • Directed monthly P&L and balance sheet reconciliation, cash and funds flow analysis, MSA/SOW/NDA negotiation and statutory audits across a 20-year tenure.

Folio III — Delivered work

What the firm itself has built.

Case studies — including Wayfong, the East Coast’s largest Chinese food importer, whose entire operation runs on software DaVinci built — are on the Work page, with the business problem, the scope we owned, the delivery shape and what the client owns now.

See the case studies

Folio IV — Capability matrix

Who covers what.

Leadership area Thiago DeSouza Swami Nathan Meena Sivan Suma Pillai
Primary domain Founder, owner, commercial and product lead R&D and engineering executive Deep-tech and product lead Operations and governance head
AI play Applied automation across owned operating companies, product direction Vulnerability telemetry AI, adaptive risk patching, MLOps Multi-agent supply chain AI, LLM conversational systems, dynamic pricing Operational dashboards, capacity modeling, resource governance
Scale milestones Ownership across logistics, fleet and automotive portfolio · US firm founded 2020 · Brazilian arm 2026 1,100+ engineers · 70+ scrum teams · $650M+ ARR 30M+ users · ₹4,000 crore monthly volume · 0–70 engineering scale 50 to 200+ GCC scaling in 6 months · full BOT execution
Enterprise focus Logistics, fleet, EV service, lead generation Qualys, Rapid7, ConnectWise Orbiz, Li Digital, Cogito, Verint, TCS Rapid7, Orbiz Analytics, ConnectWise, Alyx
Team locations run US, Brazil, India US, Ukraine, Belarus, India, Philippines US, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia US, India

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