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Senior Product Manager

Sophia Verdad

Owns hard problems across managed infrastructure, payments, and identity in global B2B environments.

PlatformFinTechIAM
Seniority
Senior PM / PO · 10+ years
Domains
Managed Infrastructure · Payments & FinTech · Identity & Access
Proof points
38% OPEX reduction · 80+ global sites · OAuth2/OIDC, Keycloak, ISO 27001

Four things this profile is prepared to stand behind.

Each line is a published claim, scope-bounded, with evidence linked in §5. Talkfolio does not invent or summarise outside what the candidate has confirmed.

01 · OWNED

Managed monitoring platform delivered globally.

Replaced commercial observability tooling with an in-house Prometheus / Loki / Grafana stack across 80+ sites in 4 regions. OPEX reduced ~38%.

02 · OWNED

First Service Catalogue for 140 infrastructure services.

Defined ownership, retention, SLA governance, and GDPR / ISO 27001 alignment. Still the operating reference at Meridian Cloud Services.

03 · OWNED + DELIVERED

Founded and scaled a managed IIoT platform (2019–2024).

Helio IIoT. Owned product strategy, service portfolio, and unit economics. Technical delivery shared with engineering team.

04 · TRACK RECORD

Card schemes, payments and IAM track record.

Atlantica Payments, Veridia Card Network, Banco Sereno, and Lumen Markets — IDM layer, 5-month bounded tenure (declared).

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Has she owned a platform end-to-end?
Yes — Meridian Cloud Services managed monitoring platform.
Owned the roadmap, architecture decisions, and rollout across 80+ sites in 4 regions. Co-authored the Service Catalogue for 140 services with GDPR / ISO 27001 alignment.
Claim type: owned.
Full roadmap and rollout. Not "contributed to" or "influenced" — owned.
Author · candidateEvidence · Service Catalogue · engineering reference (Mateus Pereira)Scope · platform · 80+ sites · 4 regions
How senior is she?
10+ years across Senior PO and Director-level scopes.
Three current/recent roles documented below. Earlier career covers card product management at Veridia Card Network and bank operations at Banco Sereno.
Author · candidateEvidence · role tenure · Veridia training record
How technical is she?
Comfortable with infrastructure stack decisions, IAM patterns, and IIoT protocols.
Prometheus / Loki / Grafana for observability. OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, Keycloak, RBAC for identity. NB-IoT, LoRaWAN, ZigBee for IIoT.
Not a hands-on engineer.
Scope is product / specification / governance, not implementation. Stated clearly so the question is not asked twice.
Author · candidateScope · bounded — product, not engineering
Any red flags?
Lumen Markets tenure was 5 months — declared and bounded.
May 2023 – Sep 2023. Scope was the IDM layer only, two squads. Not an attempt at owning the e-commerce platform.
No undisclosed gaps.
Founder period (Helio IIoT, 2019–2024) is disclosed up front in §6 — context for any apparent timeline gap.
Author · candidatePosture · disclosed up front
Where is evidence limited?
Consumer B2C and pricing strategy.
Not domains covered by published evidence. Treat as not claimed. Talkfolio will not generate a "yes" answer for either if asked.
Author · candidateGap · declared, not implied
Is she senior enough?
10+ years · Senior PM / PO scope · B2B SaaS · global teams.
Current role at Meridian Cloud Services: full roadmap and rollout ownership.
Current scope: 80+ sites · 4 regions · enterprise-scale delivery.
Service Catalogue for 140 services co-authored. ~38% OPEX reduction delivered.
Earlier career: Veridia Card Network · Atlantica Payments · Banco Sereno.
Card schemes, payment processing, and banking across multiple organisations.
Author · candidateEvidence · Meridian enterprise scope · 10+ year senior trackClaim type · owned (Meridian) · delivered (earlier career)
Cross-region experience?
Meridian Cloud Services: 80+ sites · 4 regions · global delivery scope.
Current role. Portugal-based. Full roadmap and rollout accountability.
Helio IIoT (2019–2024): product strategy and commercials across distributed teams.
Founder scope. Technical delivery shared with engineering team.
Earlier career: international card-scheme and payment operations.
Veridia Card Network · Atlantica Payments · Banco Sereno.
Author · candidateEvidence · Meridian global rollout · Helio IIoT distributed delivery · earlier international trackScope · 80+ sites · 4 regions · Portugal-based · global delivery
Technical depth?
Observability stack decision at Meridian: Prometheus / Loki / Grafana (owned).
Replaced commercial tooling. ~38% OPEX reduction across 80+ sites.
IDM layer at Lumen Markets: OAuth2, OIDC, Keycloak SSO, RBAC.
Owned the roadmap. 2 squads. 5-month bounded tenure.
IIoT protocol depth at Helio IIoT: NB-IoT, ZigBee, LoRaWAN.
Managed IIoT platform · product strategy and commercials owned.
Not a hands-on engineer.
Scope is product, specification, and governance — not implementation. TOGAF 9 Foundation certified (2022).
Author · candidateScope · product ownership · not hands-on engineering (stated in profile)Evidence · Meridian stack decision · Lumen IAM roadmap · Helio IIoT protocols · TOGAF 9 cert
Works with engineering?
Meridian: specifications drove engineering-executable architecture.
Mateus Pereira (Lead Platform Engineer): 'turned an open-ended observability problem into a tractable migration we could execute.'
Helio IIoT: product strategy and engineering delivery co-led.
Strategy and commercials owned. Technical delivery shared with engineering team.
Author · candidateEvidence · Mateus Pereira recommendation · Helio IIoT platform deliveryClaim type · product ownership coordinating engineering · not engineering execution
What does she want next?
Explicit next-role intent not stated in the published profile.
Candidate to state directly. The profile records trajectory evidence, not target-role intent.
Trajectory evidence: platform and managed-service ownership at enterprise scale.
Meridian (current) · Helio IIoT (2019–2024) · IAM depth (Lumen Markets, 2023).
Engagement: full-time perm · EU · remote-first · available.
EU citizen. Lisbon, Portugal.
Author · candidateScope note · explicit career intent not stated · trajectory inference onlyAvailability · available · EU citizen · EU · remote-first
Why the role changes?
Earlier career: Atlantica Payments · Veridia Card Network · Banco Sereno.
Card schemes, payments, and banking. Individual dates not published.
2019–2024: Helio IIoT — founder period · managed IIoT platform.
Strategy and commercials owned. Technical delivery shared.
Lumen Markets (May–Sep 2023) overlaps with Helio IIoT founder period.
Both disclosed on the profile. IDM layer only · 2 squads · 5-month bounded tenure.
Per-transition reasons not all documented in the record.
The published profile does not explain each individual role change.
Author · candidatePosture · disclosed up front · not hiddenScope note · transition reasons partially documented only
What sets her apart?
Managed infrastructure + IIoT + IAM + payments in one record.
Meridian (infrastructure) · Helio IIoT (edge platform) · Lumen Markets (IAM) · Atlantica / Veridia / Banco Sereno (payments).
Owned claim types throughout · quantified outcome: ~38% OPEX reduction.
80+ global sites · 4 regions · Service Catalogue for 140 services.
TOGAF 9 Foundation (2022) · B2B SaaS · global delivery · EU citizen.
Portuguese-native · English and Spanish working proficiency.
Author · candidateEvidence · Meridian outcome · Helio IIoT platform · Lumen IAM · earlier career trackScope note · fit judgment left to the recruiter

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Platform ownership · managed services
Strong
Enterprise infrastructure & observability
Strong
FinTech · cards · payment gateways
Moderate
Identity & Access (IAM)
Moderate
Pricing strategy
Limited
Consumer B2C
Sparse
Declared gaps. Consumer B2C and pricing strategy are not areas of established evidence on this profile. Lumen Markets tenure (Q2–Q3 2023, 5 months) is short and bounded to the IDM layer only — not the full e-commerce platform.

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JUN 2024 — PRESENT

Senior Product Owner — Managed Services & Infrastructure

Meridian Cloud Services SLU · Portugal · global delivery
OwnedFull roadmap and rollout · 80+ sites · 4 regions

Replaced commercial observability stack with in-house Prometheus / Loki / Grafana → ~38% OPEX reduction Co-authored first Service Catalogue for 140 infrastructure services with ISO 27001 alignment

PrometheusLokiGrafanaISO 27001
Evidence
Mateus Pereira · Lead Platform Engineer, Meridian Cloud Services
Meridian Cloud Services public case study · https://meridian-cloud.example/case-studies/observability-migration
TOGAF 9 Foundation
OCT 2019 — MAY 2024

Founder · Product & Commercials — Managed IIoT Platform

Helio IIoT
OwnedStrategy and commercials owned. Technical platform delivery shared with engineering team.

Founded and scaled a managed IIoT platform. Owned product strategy, service portfolio, and unit economics. Technical delivery shared with engineering team.

NB-IoTLoRaWANZigBee
Evidence
Helio IIoT service portfolio
Helio IIoT platform launch milestone
MAY 2023 — SEP 2023 · 5 MONTHS

Senior Product Owner — IDM / Identity Layer

Lumen Markets · Remote
OwnedIDM layer only · 2 squads · 5-month tenure (bounded, declared).
OAuth2OIDCKeycloakSSORBAC
Evidence
Lumen Markets IAM — no public recommendation
Earlier career — context only

Card schemes, payments, and IAM track record across Atlantica Payments (PSP), Veridia Card Network (scheme / certification), and Banco Sereno (issuer bank).

Every named item, every link, every declared gap.

Named evidence items linked to specific claims. Missing evidence is registered as missing — not omitted.

ItemTypeLinked to
Mateus Pereira — Lead Platform Engineer, Meridian Cloud ServicesRecommendationMeridian Cloud Services · platform delivery
Meridian observability migration case study
meridian-cloud.example/case-studies/observability-migration
External linkMeridian Cloud Services · 38% OPEX outcome
TOGAF 9 FoundationCertificate · 2022Infrastructure / enterprise architecture
Service portfolio · Helio IIoTInternal artefactHelio IIoT · product strategy
Lumen Markets IAM — no public recommendationMissing · declaredLumen Markets · IAM role

Sophia's specifications turned an open-ended observability problem into a tractable migration we could execute. The Service Catalogue she co-authored is still our single source of truth for service ownership.

Mateus Pereira · Lead Platform Engineer, Meridian Cloud Services · April 2026

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Engagement
Full-time · perm
Based in
Lisbon, Portugal
Open to
EU · remote-first
Authorisation
EU citizen
Notice period
Not published
Compensation
Not published
Relocation
Not declared
Travel
Open · within reason
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