2017-2022
Co-founder
Whiz
Built a Peru-based software development and nearshore technology business serving customers in North America and Latin America.
Evidence: 10Pearls announcement
Operator profile
Technology Operator building AI-native companies.
Former software company founder, engineering executive, and product builder working across the United States and Latin America. Renzo focuses on AI product strategy, enterprise AI, product incubation, engineering leadership, data foundations, cloud platforms, and US-LATAM technology operations.
Co-founded Whiz, a Peru-based software development company focused on agile software development, innovation services, and technology talent for North American customers.
Whiz was acquired by 10Pearls in 2022, expanding 10Pearls' nearshore delivery capabilities in Latin America.
Public acquisition coverage identifies Renzo Saravia and Javier Fernandez-Concha as Whiz co-founders.
The 10Pearls announcement said Javier and Renzo would join 10Pearls with a team of 125 contributors.
Current work centers on AI-native products, data foundations, cloud platforms, engineering systems, and new ventures.
Career timeline
2017-2022
Co-founder
Built a Peru-based software development and nearshore technology business serving customers in North America and Latin America.
Evidence: 10Pearls announcement
2022
Transaction milestone
10Pearls acquired Whiz, a Peru-based software development company co-founded by Javier Fernandez-Concha and Renzo Saravia.
Evidence: ChannelE2E coverage
2022 onward
Post-acquisition platform
The acquisition expanded 10Pearls' Latin America delivery footprint and added the Whiz team to its Peru operations.
Evidence: 10Pearls announcement
Current
Operator and builder
Building public writing, resources, AI-native product experiments, and reusable workflows around product, data, cloud, and agentic systems.
Evidence: Saravia.io resources
Areas of expertise
These are framed as business and system problems, not as a loose inventory of tools.
Identifying high-value AI opportunities, shaping product hypotheses, and moving from experiments to measurable product workflows.
Connecting data readiness, governance, model choices, evaluation, adoption, and production operations.
Turning opportunities into researched, validated, and testable product concepts through structured discovery and implementation loops.
Designing operating systems, team structures, and delivery practices that help technical organizations scale.
Establishing technical foundations for analytics, AI, integration, automation, and scalable product development.
Building and leading cross-border technology organizations serving US and Latin American markets.
Agentic systems
A portable Magic: The Gathering AI skill connected to live MCP tools for rules, card pricing, deck analysis, and collector research.
Creative workflow
A public skill for turning stories, references, hooks, and production constraints into prompts for AI music tools.
Developer operations
A product workflow for keeping pull requests moving across GitHub, Slack, Linear, and quality gates.
Reusable systems
Agent-ready skills, templates, and workflows designed to make AI systems repeatable instead of one-off experiments.
Frequently asked
Renzo Saravia is a technology operator, former software company founder, engineering executive, and product builder working across the United States and Latin America. His current work focuses on AI-native products, enterprise AI, data foundations, and scalable engineering systems.
Renzo is publicly associated with co-founding Whiz, a Peru-based software development company acquired by 10Pearls in 2022, and with building products and resources around AI systems, product strategy, cloud platforms, and agentic workflows.
Whiz was a Peru-based software development company focused on agile software development, innovation services, and technology talent for North American customers. Public coverage identifies Renzo Saravia and Javier Fernandez-Concha as co-founders.
10Pearls acquired Whiz in 2022. The acquisition expanded 10Pearls' nearshore delivery capabilities in Latin America and added the Whiz team to its Peru operations.
Renzo builds and writes about AI-native products, reusable agent workflows, data and cloud foundations, developer tools, and operating systems for turning opportunities into production-ready products.
Use the Saravia.io contact form, email renzo@saravia.io, or connect through the verified LinkedIn profile linked from this site.
References
Primary company announcement
10Pearls
Whiz acquisition, company description, co-founders, 125 contributors, and 10Pearls nearshore expansion.
Independent business coverage
ChannelE2E
Independent M&A coverage of 10Pearls acquiring Whiz and naming Javier Fernandez-Concha and Renzo Saravia as co-founders.
Founder interview and profile
They Got Acquired
Founder story, acquisition timing, growth narrative, team scale, and public operating metrics reported by the publication.
Self-maintained professional profile
Public professional identity and profile continuity.
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