# Lucas Azevedo > Co-Founder & Head of Design at Handle.com (YC W19) Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lucasazevedo I'm Lucas Azevedo, a product designer and software engineer with more than 15+ years of experience. I'm currently building the future of payments for the US construction industry at handle.com (YC W19), where I'm a co-founder of the company and head of user experience and design. I'm focused on solving one of the most critical and complex workflows in construction: payments compliance and financial infrastructure. At Handle, we build software that helps simplify construction financial management and automate manual and repetitive tasks associated with late payments, owner verification, deadline tracking, RFI, enhanced waiver processes, and much more. At handle.com my role is strongly focused on the use of complex data to design simple user flows, easy to use for the largest companies in the world within the construction industry, Including publicly traded and Fortune 500 companies such as CRH, Oldcastle, Graybar, U.S. Concrete, Apogee Enterprises, and many more. I’ve worked with some of the top executives at these companies to ensure our Handle product is loved and used heavily on a daily basis by hundreds of their users. Before handle.com, I was the Lead UI/UX Engineer (6th employee) at Tenfold (tenfold.com). Which was recently bought by LivePerson (Nasdaq: LPSN) for $125 million. At Tenfold, I created the world's first Unified Customer Profile, aggregating all customer conversations to empower customer-facing support and sales representatives. Tenfold's system worked on a large scale, processing more than a billion events each month. Customers like Adobe, Staples, T-Mobile, and Western Union relied on Tenfold to run their businesses. Tenfold grew from $10,000 in annual revenue when I started to over $7.5 million in annual revenue in 3 years. Besides work, I like to perform experiments and research in virtual reality and augmented reality in my spare time. I wrote an article for Forbes about AR/VR technologies which I strongly believe in the power of computing vision and artificial intelligence to improve how we can interact with the real world. ## Work Experience ### Head of UX & Design @ Handle.com Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Handle builds software that helps simplify construction financial management by automating manual and repetitive tasks throughout the life cycle of construction payments • Created the design system across all product and website areas • Lead product design, front-end implementation, and work closely with the engineering team on a daily basis • Design systems around our enterprise-customer’s data and needs, including Fortune 500 companies and publicly traded companies for some of the biggest names in construction like CRH, Oldcastle, U.S. Concrete, Graybar, Ahern, and many more • Designing and building a product that saves an average of 10-12 hours per week. ### Member, Design Leadership Forum @ InVision Jan 2019 – Present The Design Leadership Forum brings together industry veterans and rising stars who direct design at leading companies. The mission of the DLF is to advance the practice of design leadership to learn from one another to improve business ideas and solutions. This community is built for enterprise design leaders from companies including USAA, Facebook, Oracle, Dropbox, IBM, Google, Apple, The Walt Disney Company, and many more. ### Official Member @ YEC Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Young Entrepreneur Council invited Lucas Azevedo, to join due to his outstanding achievements as an entrepreneur and extraordinary contribution to the global start-up community. YEC is America’s most elite entrepreneur organization, is a highly selective, trusted, and invite-only community that helps young entrepreneurs by giving them the tools and resources they need to grow their business, expand their knowledge, and connect to some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. Some of YEC criteria: • 45 or younger • The founder, co-founder, owner, or co-owner of your company • Generating at least $1MM in annual revenue ### Lead UI/UX Engineer @ Tenfold Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting the customer information into action on the phone in real-time I was the first designer and one of the first non-co-founders (6th employee) of the company. I joined the Tenfold during the early stage venture of the startup • Designed the Unified Customer Profile • While at Tenfold, I was a key member of the product and marketing team that grew revenue from $10.000 --> $7.5M ARR in 3 years • I led the entire design department - 85% of the company ARR came through leads generated from inbound marketing channels and website that I managed • Customers we acquired through marketing included T-Mobile, Western Union, Staples, BBVA, Adobe, Transamerica, and 400+ others • Raised over $30M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures • Acquired by LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) ### Lead UI Designer @ Hotmart Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Belo Horizonte e Região, Brasil Hotmart is an international tech company focused on those who wish to start a digital business, present in 188 countries, with +29M users, and leader in the distribution of digital products by providing an ecosystem with hosting, payment processing, and managing solutions for creators • I was the first product designer of the company (10th employee) • I led the design and implementation of the HotPay, the company payment technology • I implemented the mobile payment and increased by 40% the sales conversions • Ran multiple UI/UX researches, data analysis, and A/B testing to optimize the checkout pages • Designed the custom checkouts and custom sales pages builder for creators • Designed the first company mobile app ### Front-end Engineer @ Plan B Comunicação Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Belo Horizonte e Região, Brasil Plan B is a renowned pioneer in the digital agency in Brazil doing an intersection between technology, design, and marketing to deliver remarkable experiences in the digital age. The agency worked for the biggest Brazilian companies including Petrobras, Vale, Iveco, Mondaine Watches, TIM Brasil, and many others • I worked on projects for Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) • Implementing pixel-perfect landing pages for websites and portals • Built mobile web apps using javascript, HTML5, CSS3 ### Product Designer & Front-end Engineer @ Teknisa Software Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Belo Horizonte e Região, Brasil Teknisa Software provides solutions for catering, food service, and business management. The company is the leader in Latin America with +65K active users on the daily basis and is present in 6 countries • I worked closely with the engineering team and product managers to develop web browser applications • I helped the company migrate legacy Delphi desktop software to web applications • I led the design and implementation of the first mobile app for the company ### Full Stack Developer @ Eurolocks Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Belo Horizonte Eurolocks e-commerce for the hospitality industry • Managed multiple company e-commerce websites, including implementing new designs, banners, features, and coding. • Designed and developed product landing pages for campaigns using HTML/CSS • Managed, designed, and deployed email marketing campaigns • Worked optimization for SEM and SEO • Generated analytics reports and analyzed them to improve the e-commerce conversions • Created and optimized design assets for Facebook and Google ads campaigns ### Co-Founder @ Tecnoig Jan 2003 – Jan 2010 | Belo Horizonte Co-founder of a digital agency. I played a key role in the company designing and implementing projects for a variety of small businesses. • Responsible for the end-to-end design process and implementation of the projects • We created +200 projects, including websites, e-commerce, and web portals • In 2006 we released the first and complete built-in e-commerce solution for small businesses growing the company revenue by 50% • Grew Tecnoig from 0 to 15 employees ## Education ### Masters in Entrepreneurship in Winter 2019 Y Combinator ### Bachelor's degree in Communication and Media Studies Centro Universitário Newton Paiva ### Ensino Médio Colégio Abgar Renault ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lucasazevedo --- Source: https://flows.cv/lucasazevedo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lucasazevedo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13