A bit of my history
- - Winner of the CII contest by ANII 2017-2018 for final degree project
- - Project selected by ANIU as the best Engineering project 2018. RITI, high-tech innovative project using technologies like Amazon AWS, Ansible, Python, Docker Swarm, Celery, and Redis.
- - Winner of Solar Decathlon 2015 Smart Houses - IoT with "La Casa Uruguaya" project
- - Supervisor of more than 50 semester projects.
- - Held the position of Head of Cloud Platform at dlocal when it became a Unicorn and went public on NASDAQ.
- - Assisted in the regional expansion of 4 startups (PedidosYa, Dlocal, Pomelo, and SoyHabitue)
- - Advised startups on technology and business.
- - Built 3 Infrastructure teams from scratch.
- - Led product development teams to achieve rapid end-to-end integration.
- - Led 2 data teams and provided consultancy on BI best practices.
- - Managed and led regional teams in Latin America.
- - Certified three companies under PCI compliance DSS Level 1 versions 3.2.1 and 4.0
- - Managed a platform handling millions of daily transactions from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
- - Participated in the implementation of ERP, WMS, Ecommerce, Mobile App, Inventory Software affecting Retail chain.
- - Designed an Internal Development Platform based on Backstage serving +150 devs
- - Built our Data Lake in Near Real Time, evolved it to Lakehouse, and then built our Datawarehouse (YODA) under a Datamesh architecture.
Academic
Startup
Team Management
Technology
Experience
CTO - Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
Since June 2024 in Akua
- Building next gen infra payments in Latam
Director of Engineering
Since July 2021 to June 2024 in Pomelo
- Building fintech infrastructure in LATAM
- Head of Core Services: Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Fraud Prevention
- Teams: DevSecOps, SRE, CloudOps, Platform Core, Platform Solutions & AppSec, Data Engineer, BI, Fraud Prevention, GRC, Access & Support
- Tech: AWS (+75 different services), GCP, Kubernetes, Spacelift, Terraform, Cloudformation, New Relic, Opsgenie, ArgoCd, CircleCI, Github, Gitops, Gremlin, Rundeck, K6 Load test, Datalake NRT, Backstage, Sonarqube, Spark, Tableau, Superset, Cloudflare, Falco, Sumologic, Auth0, Snyk, Jumpcloud, Golang, Java, Python, NodeJs, Bash, Airflow, Crowdstrike, Tenable
- Direct report to CTO
Head of Platform
From August 2019 to July 2021 at Dlocal
- Dlocal is a Payment Service Provider in emerging markets for world-leading e-commerce companies. Its clients include Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Avast, Booking, Dropbox, Didi, and others.
- Technologies: AWS, IaaC, Ansible, Terraform, Rundeck, Codepipeline, S3, EC2, Lambda, Jira Software, Jira Service Desk, DynamoDB, OpenVPN, OpenSwan, Elastic, Logstash, Kibana.
- Direct report to CISO
Head of IT - Infrastructure, Security and Data
From May 2016 to August 2019 at Farmashop
- Farmashop is the largest pharmacy chain in Uruguay, with over 200 stores and 5 different lines of business. With more than 2000 employees, it's the second-largest company in terms of retail stores in the Uruguayan market. Act as a point of reference for different sectors of the company to identify development needs and improvement opportunities for Information Systems and Resources, ensuring compliance with the management standards of the infrastructure support team. Responsible for coordinating and implementing new company systems and applications, acting as a technical leader.
- - Leading a team in Support, Infrastructure, Database, and DevOps. - 3 physical data centers, 16 physical hosts, 8 Storage (1 IBM FlashSystem, 1 Dell EMC AllFlash, 6 IBM), over 250 virtual VMs. - Virtualization: VMware, Docker, Kubernetes. - Databases: Mysql, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server. - Operating Systems: Windows Server and Linux CentOS. - Over 1500 devices (PCs, Registers, Branch Servers, Main Servers) on the network. - 106 network points, managed by Cisco Meraki SDWAN. - Ensure all company infrastructure is operational, ensuring optimal functioning. - Responsible for Servers, Networking, Datacenters, and overall system management, operation, and maintenance.
- Direct reporting to CTO and CEO
Infrastructure Manager
From March 2015 to July 2016 at Pedidosya
- PedidosYa is the leading online ordering company in Latin America.
- - Direct, organize, coordinate, and control all activities related to the conservation and functionality of both physical and network infrastructure. - Ensure internal control within operations. - Plan various activities to establish appropriate priorities, both for infrastructure maintenance and administrative aspects of management. - Control of financial information related to Infrastructure. - Creation of internal processes for the department and the company. - Implementation of physical and information security. - Telecommunications, servers. - Networks, switches.
- Direct reporting to CTO
CEO and Founder
From March 2011 to July 2016 at One4all
- One4all was a startup/small business offering IT services.
- - Formed a team of 12 people, serving over 20 clients with more than 600 monthly requests. - Collaborated with ITarmy/NCR partners, working for Visa and Mastercard in the data centers of major local financial institutions in Uruguay. - Implemented VISA Infrastructure at key clients in Uruguay, including Servers, PCI Architectures, and Networking. - Outsourced by NCR. Served as VISA client on-site at Banks, Financial Institutions, and Acquirers.
Other Experiences
Network Security Analyst - IBM 2014 - 2015
Support Process - Telefonica 2013 - 2014
SysAdmin - IT Business 2009 - 2012
IT Manager - Cybercafe Chain 2005 - 2012
Support Process - Telefonica 2013 - 2014
SysAdmin - IT Business 2009 - 2012
IT Manager - Cybercafe Chain 2005 - 2012
Teaching and Tutorials
Fintech Technologies Professor in the Master's in Information Management
Since January 2024 at Universidad ORT
Catedratic for Telematics and Projects - Infrastructure and Security
Since July 2020 to January 2024 at UTEC - Technological University
Teaching Data Analysis and Payment Methods
Since July 2019 at Senpai - 2021
Advisor
Board Advisor and Investor
Since July 2021 at Habitue
Education
MIT Professional Education
Data Science and Big Data: Data-driven Decisions, Data Modeling and Storage/Database Management · (February 2022 - April 2022)
IEBS Business School
Master in Digital Business & Lean Startup · (2020 - 2021)
Universidad ORT Uruguay
Bachelor's in Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications · (2010 - 2020)
EUDE Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA · (2017 - 2018)
eCommerce Institute
Executive Program in Retail eCommerce, Specialized Sales, Promotion, Commercial and Marketing Activities · (2016 - 2018)
Certificaciones
Cursos
- AWS Well-Architected Framework: Performance Efficiency Pillar
- Hosting Virtual Machines in a Multicloud Environment
- Planning a Multicloud Solution
- AWS for Developers: ECS and Multi-Region Load Balancing
- Certified Kubernetes Adminsitrator
- Programa especializado Architecting with Google Cloud Platform
- MTCNA, MTCNE- Mikrotik Certified Network Adminstrator and Engineer
- Elastix Certified Technician - ECT
- CCNA - CIsco Certified Network Adminstrator
- Focalizado de Análisis de Decisiones Económicas -IEEM Universidad de Montevideo
- Decision making - UDE
- AWS Cloud Services and Infrastructure - Cost Optimization
- Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services - Coursera
- Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation - Coursera
- Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services - Coursera
- Certified Associate in Python Programming Certification
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty 2020
- AWS Cloud Services and Infrastructure - Cost Optimization Deep Dive
- Advanced Networking with Kubernetes on AWS
- Blockchain Essentials
- Criptografía Simétrica y Asimétrica
- Criptomonedas & Fintech
- Service Mesh with Istio
- Tableau BI : Conocimientos de la herramienta
- Web3
Voluntariados
Miembro
Marzo 2023 en Cámara Uruguaya de Fintech
Director de Finanzas y Legales
Desde Enero 2012 hasta Diciembre 2014 en AIESEC
DevOps Institute Ambassador
Desde Julio 2022 actualidad en DevOps Institute
Jurado
100KLatam - Jurado Online de la edición 2021 de 100k LAtam
Community member
FinOps Foundation desde abril 2022
Mentor
Endeavor desde Agosto 2023
