Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that drives transformative change for ambitious organisations. In Brazil, we pair world-class engineering rigour with on-the-ground market intelligence to help clients rebuild, reconfigure and reimagine what technology can do for them — and for the people who rely on them every day.
Thoughtworks was founded in Chicago in 1992 on a simple but radical idea: that great software is built by exceptional people who care deeply about craft — and that the best technology organisations are also places of social responsibility. Three decades later, that founding conviction still shapes every engagement we take on.
We arrived in Brazil as part of a deliberate global expansion into markets where engineering talent is world-class and the appetite for genuine digital transformation is immense. What started as a small delivery operation grew into one of our most vibrant regional hubs — a place where Brazilian technologists work on globally significant problems and where multinational clients engage with teams that understand both cutting-edge architecture and the nuance of operating in Latin America.
Today, THOUGHTWORKS BRASIL SOFTWARE LTDA is home to hundreds of engineers, designers, data scientists and strategic consultants, serving clients across financial services, life sciences, retail, public sector and beyond.
Roy Singham establishes Thoughtworks with a dual mandate: deliver exceptional software and operate as a socially conscious enterprise.
Thoughtworks opens offices across Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, establishing engineering hubs that mirror its Chicago culture of craft and rigour.
Our influential guide to the technology landscape — a living, opinionated map of tools, techniques, platforms and languages — publishes its first edition.
The Brazilian operation deepens its roots, growing teams in São Paulo and Porto Alegre and taking on flagship engagements with major financial institutions and retailers.
Thoughtworks goes public, marking a new chapter of investment in talent, platform capabilities and the AI-driven delivery model that underpins our work today.
We release AI/works™, our agentic development platform — condensing decades of engineering expertise into tooling that dramatically accelerates the creation of production-grade AI systems.
We believe that the most important software in the world should be built with intention — with technical brilliance, ethical clarity and a relentless focus on the people it ultimately serves.
We exist to create an extraordinary impact on the world through our culture and technology excellence. This is not a tagline — it is the lens through which we hire, the test against which we evaluate our work, and the reason our people stay.
We take craft seriously. Our engineers hold themselves to standards that go beyond "working software" — they pursue elegant architecture, testability, observability and long-term maintainability as matters of professional pride, not compliance.
We consider the downstream effects of what we build. Whether deploying AI systems, processing personal data or designing public-facing products, we ask hard questions about bias, access and accountability — even when clients don't.
The technology landscape shifts faster than any individual can absorb alone. We build learning into the working week — through internal talks, Thoughtworks University programmes, cross-regional guilds and our publicly shared tools like the Technology Radar.
Our model is not to parachute in and hand over code. We work embedded within client teams, transferring skills, challenging assumptions and building the kind of trust that outlasts any single project engagement.
A broader range of perspectives produces better software. We invest actively in programmes that open technology careers to people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we hold our own leadership to measurable diversity targets.
We say the harder thing when it needs saying. That means pushing back on a technology choice that won't serve the business, flagging ethical concerns before they become crises, and sharing our genuine views in public — even when they are contrarian.
When you engage Thoughtworks Brazil, you engage the entire Thoughtworks network. That means your project can draw on specialist expertise from our practices in India, the UK, Germany, Singapore or the United States — brought together in whatever combination best fits your challenge.
Our Brazil teams collaborate daily with counterparts in over a dozen countries, participating in shared technical guilds, co-authoring the Technology Radar and jointly delivering cross-border programmes for global clients. The result is a capability set that no single-country firm can replicate.
Thoughtworks operates across 17 countries, with offices spanning four continents. Wherever your business reaches, we can support it — with the consistency of a single delivery culture and a unified set of engineering standards.
Our global operating model is built on shared engineering standards, a common onboarding programme and regular cross-office collaboration. A Thoughtworks engineer in São Paulo writes code to exactly the same quality bar as one in London or Bangalore — which is what allows us to compose truly global teams without any loss of coherence.
The Thoughtworks Technology Radar — one of the most-cited guides to the technology landscape in the world — is produced by technologists from every region, including Brazil, ensuring our public knowledge assets reflect genuinely diverse engineering contexts.
Leaders want AI working for them yesterday. But durable outcomes require the right foundations. We meet clients where they are — whether that means rebuilding from the ground up, reconfiguring existing capabilities, or reimagining what the business could become.
Legacy systems are the most common barrier to AI adoption. We systematically modernise mainframes, monoliths and fragmented data estates — using proven strangler-fig patterns, AI-assisted refactoring and continuous delivery pipelines — so your architecture can actually support what you're trying to do. We've helped major financial institutions and public agencies move decades of mission-critical code into modern platforms without a single day of downtime.
Technology alone doesn't create transformation. We work with leadership teams to redesign the operating models, team structures and governance processes that determine how quickly technology decisions get made and how safely AI systems get deployed. This includes establishing AI ethics review practices, platform engineering teams and the feedback loops that keep systems honest long after launch.
The most exciting work starts when the foundations are in place. We help ambitious organisations identify the product opportunities, data assets and customer interactions that AI makes newly possible — then build them at pace using our AI/works™ agentic development platform. This is where Bayer unified its R&D intelligence in seconds, and where AR experiences have transformed museum learning entirely.
Our proprietary agentic development platform, AI/works™, condenses decades of delivery expertise into tooling that makes production-grade AI systems faster and substantially cheaper to build. Unlike point solutions that optimise a single step, AI/works™ addresses the full lifecycle — from data readiness and model selection through to deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement — with human technologists maintaining command throughout.
AI systems are only as good as the data beneath them. We design and build data platforms that make quality, governed data genuinely accessible to decision-makers and machine learning systems alike. Whether migrating to a modern lakehouse architecture, implementing real-time streaming or building self-service analytics for non-technical teams, we treat data infrastructure as a strategic asset rather than a cost centre.
Extraordinary digital products require engineering and design working as a single discipline. Our cross-functional teams — combining UX research, service design, front-end engineering and platform development — ship products that work beautifully and scale reliably. We bring this combined capability to web, mobile and emerging interfaces including conversational AI and augmented reality.
Thoughtworks has always attracted a particular kind of technologist: one who finds a poorly architected system genuinely offensive, who reads widely beyond their immediate discipline, who cares about the effect their work has on real people's lives. In Brazil, that culture is thriving.
Our Brazilian teams bring together engineers, data scientists, designers, strategists and domain experts who are as comfortable debating event-driven architecture as they are challenging a product assumption or mentoring a graduate in their first professional role. Hierarchy is deliberately flat. Intellectual rigour is non-negotiable.
We also invest seriously in developing the people who join us. Thoughtworks University provides structured preparation for new graduates and career-changers. Our internal guilds — spanning front-end engineering, platform infrastructure, AI, security and more — create communities of practice that accelerate expertise sharing across the whole organisation.
The result is a team culture that clients consistently describe as different: more intellectually honest, more willing to raise hard questions, and more invested in outcomes than in the hours billed.
A structured onboarding and professional development programme that prepares new graduates and career-changers for the realities of large-scale, agile software delivery — covering engineering practices, client collaboration and Thoughtworks values.
Cross-office communities of practice connect specialists across Brazil, India, the UK and beyond. Whether you work in platform engineering, machine learning or accessibility design, there is a peer group actively advancing the craft.
We run active initiatives to bring more women, Black professionals and people from lower-income backgrounds into technology careers — partnering with community organisations and providing structured pathways from training to employment.
Our technologists contribute actively to the global conversation — presenting at conferences, publishing open-source tools, writing for Thoughtworks Insights and co-authoring the Technology Radar. Being visible in the technical community is encouraged, not just permitted.
Operating as THOUGHTWORKS BRASIL SOFTWARE LTDA, our Brazil entity is fully integrated into the global Thoughtworks delivery network while maintaining genuine local presence and market knowledge. Our Brazilian teams understand the regulatory landscape, the infrastructure realities and the talent market in a way that offshore-only providers simply cannot replicate.
We serve clients across São Paulo, Porto Alegre and beyond — in industries from banking and insurance to agribusiness, healthcare and retail. We also operate as a talent engine for the global network, with Brazilian technologists frequently rotating onto international programmes and contributing to global capability practices.
Speak with our Brazil teamWith anchored presence in São Paulo and Porto Alegre, we combine access to Brazil's largest commercial centre with one of the country's deepest engineering talent pools.
We work with major financial institutions, life sciences companies, retailers and public sector organisations — bringing global delivery expertise to challenges that are distinctly Brazilian in context and scale.
Our Brazil teams work fluently in both languages, enabling seamless collaboration with multinational clients, international stakeholders and the broader Thoughtworks network.
Thoughtworks was recognised by Amazon Web Services for exceptional delivery in data and analytics, validating the depth of capability our Brazil teams contribute to cloud-native data transformation programmes.
Our work earns external validation — but our real measure is client outcomes and the careers we help build along the way.
Awarded by Amazon Web Services in recognition of outstanding delivery in data and analytics transformation, reflecting contributions from teams across Thoughtworks including Brazil.
Positioned as a leader in custom software engineering and delivery excellence, reinforcing our standing as a go-to partner for organisations facing genuinely complex technology challenges.
Our bi-annual Technology Radar has become one of the most widely read guides to the technology landscape among engineering leaders globally, cited by CTOs, architects and development teams on every continent.
Consistently recognised in Brazil's Great Place to Work rankings, reflecting our investment in people development, psychological safety, inclusive culture and competitive total compensation.
Thoughtworks transformed how Bayer's research teams access and act on scientific data — collapsing the time to insight from days to seconds through a unified data and AI platform.
Our teams created an award-winning augmented reality experience that fundamentally changed how museum visitors engage with historical content — bringing static exhibitions to life.
Whether you're modernising a legacy estate, deploying AI into production for the first time, or rethinking how your organisation uses technology altogether — our Brazil team is ready to have that conversation.
