Wonder hires Antonio Silveira as chief technology officer

Fast-growing food hall/delivery concept Wonder has named a new chief technology officer.

Antonio Silveira will join the company on May 18 and will be responsible for helping to scale its technology as it prepares to become “IPO-ready” by early next year.

A seasoned engineer and tech leader, Silveirawas most recently the CTO of Attentive, a text message and email marketing platform, for about two years.

Before that, he was CTO of Nextdoor for four and a half years and VP of engineering at GoDaddy for six and a half. He saw both companies through initial public offerings.

He also led engineering at Yahoo and was head of media engineering for Globo, a Brazilian media and communications company.

He joins another high-tech company in Wonder, which relies heavily on technology to operate its expansive “mealtime platform.” This includes a chain of more than 100 delivery-focused, multibrand food halls; a mobile app; Grubhub; the Blue Apron meal kit service; food media network Tastemade; and Spyce, a bowl-making robot.

As it charts a path to the public markets, Wonder will turn to Silveira to help it “move faster, operate more effectively, and continue to build the durable, scalable platform necessary” for the transition, the company said in a press release. He will report to founder and CEO Marc Lore.

“I’m incredibly excited to join Wonder at such an important moment in the company’s journey,” Silveira said in a statement. “Marc has a bold vision for building a technology platform at the intersection of software, robotics, cooking, and AI, focused on delivering delicious, high-quality food at scale and changing how people access and experience it. That’s what makes this opportunity so unique. I’m looking forward to working with Marc and the Wonder team to scale our technology, strengthen the engineering organization, and help bring this vision to life.”

Silveira is the latest addition to the C-suite at Wonder following the hiring of CFO Gabrielle Scheibe Rabinovitch in March.

He is Wonder's third CTO, following James Chen, who left in February, and Weihua Yan, a founding member and CTO from 2018 to 2024.