John Silva

Product · Operations · Marketing

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Executive Profile

Product manager shipping crypto and fintech systems with measurable impact.

At Bitso, I launched a self-service 24/7 OTC RFQ Prime Broker, reaching 12x revenue in three months across OTC offerings and now driving >$850M/month in volume across Latin America.

Quantified Impact

12 x

Prime Broker revenue in three months

>$850 M

OTC offerings volume per month

120 +

Institutional and market-maker clients

19.83 %

Churn reduction in 30 days

187 %

Output increase and R$1.5M/year savings

Selected Experience

Product Manager | Pro Products

Bitso · Crypto Exchange

Nov 2024 – Present

  • Launched Bitso Prime Broker, reaching 12x revenue in three months and scaling OTC offerings to >$850M/month across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia.
  • Led automation that reduced request-to-execution time by about 90% and moved the full cycle to <1 second.

Chief Operating Officer & Chief Marketing Officer

BotConversa

Feb 2024 – Dec 2024

  • Reduced monthly churn by 19.83% in the first 30 days through retention strategy and marketing automation.
  • Launched BlinkChat for Instagram, generating R$600,000 in revenue in the first 2 hours.

Product Manager

PicPay

Oct 2021 – Jul 2023

  • Helped build the PicPay Invest brokerage for >60M users from scratch, structuring products and operations end-to-end.
  • Orchestrated Banco Original client migration including fixed income custody of R$20B at scale.

Core Skills & Tooling

Product strategy and execution across exchange infrastructure, OTC/RFQ systems, smart order routing, margin trading, governance, and cross-functional operating models.

  • Product strategy & discovery
  • Exchange infrastructure (OTC/RFQ)
  • Smart Order Routing (SOR)
  • Margin trading and lending
  • Listings governance (KYB/AML)
  • Metrics, OKRs, experimentation
  • Runbooks and process optimization
  • Stakeholder management

Tools: Looker · Amplitude · Datadog · Metabase · Jira · Python · MQL5 · Cursor · OpenAI Codex · Claude Code