Gabriel Lyra

Gabriel Lyra is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of BlindPay, a financial technology startup developing a stablecoin API for global cross-border payments. At the Y Combinator-backed company, he currently leads the technical development of blockchain-based payment solutions and core financial infrastructure. Previously, Lyra served as a software engineering leader at LendingClub, where he architected critical financial systems that processed over $50 billion in monthly loan transactions. Before his tenure in the alternative lending sector, he worked on cloud infrastructure optimization as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services. During his time at AWS, he successfully optimized complex infrastructure scripts to reduce monthly operational costs from $15 million down to $1 million. His professional background centers on scaling high-volume financial infrastructure, optimizing cloud computing environments, and deploying cryptocurrency technology for modern enterprise payment networks.