# Edwin Poot — Global CTO, CPTO, Board Advisor & Non-Executive Director

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## Who is Edwin Poot?

Edwin Poot is a Global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) with over two decades of experience scaling technology organisations in fintech, payments, energy, and digital infrastructure. He is available for full-time, fractional, and interim CTO/CPTO engagements as well as Non-Executive Director (NED) and Board Advisory appointments — particularly for PE- and VC-backed portfolio companies.

## Current Role

Edwin Poot is Global CTO at Thredd (formerly GPS — Global Processing Service), a leading card processing and issuer-processor platform powering fintech companies and banks worldwide.

## Career History

- **Global CTO — Thredd** (2022–present): Leading engineering and platform strategy for a high-throughput card processing business serving 100+ fintech clients globally.
- **CPTO — Nubank / Nu** (2020–2022): Chief Product & Technology Officer at Nubank (Brazil), one of the world's largest digital banks.
- **VP Product & Technology — Booking.com** (2017–2020): Led product and technology at Booking.com, the world's largest online travel platform.
- **Chief Architect & Sr. Director — Paxos** (2015–2017): Blockchain and digital assets infrastructure.
- **CPTO & Founder — Energyworx** (2012–2015): Founded and exited a smart-energy data SaaS platform (acquired).
- **Earlier career** — Capgemini, Alliander, Vattenfall, Settle.

## Areas of Expertise

- Technology strategy and digital transformation
- Fractional, interim and full-time CTO/CPTO leadership
- PE and VC portfolio company technology assessment and uplift
- Board advisory and Non-Executive Director roles
- Platform engineering, cloud-native architecture (AWS serverless)
- Fintech: card processing, payments, digital banking, institutional digital assets
- Agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration
- Engineering culture, OKRs, team scaling (50–300+ engineers)
- M&A technology due diligence and post-merger integration
- Atomic settlement, shadow ledger architecture, programmable money

## Engagement Types

1. **Full-time CTO/CPTO** — Joining a company as permanent technology executive
2. **Fractional CTO/CPTO** — Part-time strategic technology leadership (typically 2–3 days/week)
3. **Interim CTO/CPTO** — Short-term leadership during transitions, M&A, or leadership gaps
4. **Non-Executive Director (NED) & Board Advisor** — Board-level technology governance and oversight

## Articles & Thought Leadership

Edwin writes on technology leadership, agentic AI, and engineering culture:

- "Vibe Coding is Dead. Long Live Engineering." — https://blog.pootonline.com/vibe-coding-is-dead-long-live-engineering-34ec38c1294f
- "The 3 AM Rule: Agentic AI is in Production. Your Governance Isn't." — https://blog.pootonline.com/the-3-am-rule-agentic-ai-is-in-production-your-governance-isnt-af58cc07968a
- "The Mastercard 'Verifiable Intent' Announcement: Solving the Agentic Governance Gap" — https://blog.pootonline.com/the-mastercard-verifiable-intent-announcement-solving-the-agentic-governance-gap-39d0d5b6951f
- "Beyond the Hype: The Atomic Transaction Layer We're Missing in Digital Asset Infrastructure" — https://blog.pootonline.com/beyond-the-hype-the-atomic-transaction-layer-were-missing-in-digital-asset-infrastructure-8b874b0d46ed
- "The Shift from Coding to Curating — Why Agentic Engineering is the New Standard" — https://blog.pootonline.com/the-shift-from-coding-to-curating-why-agentic-engineering-is-the-new-standard-e1cf38bd06e5
- "The Execution Layer of AI: My Journey from IDEs to Agentic Engineering" — https://blog.pootonline.com/the-execution-layer-of-ai-my-journey-from-ides-to-agentic-engineering-d8f9d28209ba

All articles: https://blog.pootonline.com

## Contact & Links

- Website: https://edwin.pootonline.com
- Email: edwin@pootonline.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erpoot
- Blog / Medium: https://blog.pootonline.com
- Location: Spain (ES), Netherlands (NL), United Kingdom (UK) — available internationally