Fernando Rych (Rychlewski)

Innovation Catalyst and Community Manager in São Paulo, Brasil

Fernando Rych (Rychlewski)

Innovation Catalyst and Community Manager in São Paulo, Brasil

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Corporate Life

  • $200M+ USD impact as Global Innovation Consultant at IBM, 5 CEO prizes, 50+ projects
  • $28.5M+ USD impact as Chief Information Officer with Business Intelligence assets
  • 80+ companies impacted as Principal Innovation Consultant at G8 Ideas
  • 15+ years of Agile Transformation, 4,000+ squads
  • 12+ years Technical Leader, Systems Architect & Engineer
  • 20+ years of software development (26 languages, since 12 years old)
  • 18+ years of Graphic Designer and User Experience, 3D printing nowadays

Academic Life

  • Featured Professor and Ambassador at Sao Paulo University in MBA (Business Consulting and International Operations courses) and Graduate (Digital Marketing and Marketing Engineering courses), elected by students and by the board
  • 350+ lectures taught
  • 30+ Conferences as Master of Ceremonies
  • 900+ mentored Pre-Seed, Seed & Series A Startups
  • Member of the 0.8% IBM Technical Leadership Council board
  • Volunteer Professor for Social Impact initiatives

Public & Volunteer Life

  • TEDx Speaker, about remote work-life balance
  • United Nations Recognition and Distinction for leading initiatives on behalf of the 2030 Agenda
  • IBM Top Volunteer, member of the Steering Committee for Corporate Citizenship
  • 11+ years founding and leading 24 communities of Developers, Startups, and Entrepreneurs, the 3 largest in Latin America, with over 400,000 people impacted, together with Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Paypal, Twitter, Slack, etc
  • 458,000+ impacted people as Global Lead for Developer Relations & Experience at Turing.com, a Silicon Valley Unicorn, with over 20 programs created, empowering developers' careers
  • 950+ events led
  • 80+ organized Hackathons
  • 3 Latin America Records
  • Sao Paulo City Hall active volunteer board member, co-coordinating city-wide events like Sao Paulo Tech Week and Future City Festival for over 5 years (800+ events per edition)
  • Dozens of travels to support & evolve local Communities, Governments & Universities in need to achieve the next level

Objectives

My life focus and passion today is to bring this whole cluster of diverse experiences and apply it to companies, communities, and individuals, to solve complex problems, always with an innovative & disruptive perspective, analyzing all the faces of their “Rubik Cube”, finding their opportunities to grow & evolve. And by doing so, naturally bringing high business impact and solid plans through natural leadership (servant leadership) and proactive engagement of all the parties involved.

  • Work
    • IBM