Rodrigo Fernandes

About

Finance and computer science, in the same career. I studied CS, spent 15 years building a software company, and now work on the economics of digital and AI businesses, which lets me sit between domain experts and engineers. I co-founded Eteg and scaled it to 100+ people. I co-founded Escola em Movimento, an edtech product that reached 1,000+ schools and was acquired by Arco Educação (NYSE: ARCE). In Canada, I spent four years as Director of Operations at VanHack, an international talent marketplace, working with the Canadian companies that hired its global engineers. More recently, CFO at Pingback and now fractional CFO at Templo, an AI company. My work lives in customer economics: LTV/CAC, cohort retention, contribution margin, and what makes growth durable rather than just fast. I teach financial modeling, valuation, SaaS metrics and AI applied to finance at Fundação Dom Cabral, and write about the economics of software and AI as a LinkedIn Top Voice, on Substack, and in TechCrunch and the Christensen Institute. MBA, Fundação Dom Cabral. BSc in Computer Science, UFMG. Canadian citizen, based in Brazil