Mar 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

• Lead a team of 160+ engineers owning most of Uber's payments experiences, in both the spender and earner sides of the marketplace. Including:
• Checkout platform that drives the transactions for all Uber lines of business, transacting 100s of billions of dollars a year.
• Earner Payments, creating products for Earners to get fast payments on-demand.
• Cash, handling the complexity of allowing Uber transactions to be settled in Cash in cash heavy markets like Latam and India.
• Payments Integrations with multiple PSPs across the world to support many dozen hyper-local payments methods. Including the growth of Uber Pay, Uber's reverse integration platform.
• Payments compliance, ensuring Uber's compliance and KYC/KYB for the markets where the company is regulated as a payments institution. (EU, Mexico)
• Commerce Observability, an analytics platform and Uber wide initiative to improve observability of core flows to improve detection of issues and give users a better experience.
• PCI vault and annual certification
• Tech Site Lead for Amsterdam, being accountable for the growth, culture and experience of the Tech team in this office. During 2023 we almost doubled the size of the team to ~400 members, making it one of the fastest growing years in the history of the site.
• Executive sponsor for the EMEA charter of the Immigrants Employee Group
• Executive sponsor for the program to develop relationships, employer branding and sourcing capabilities for engineering talent in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jan 2020 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Moved to Medellín, Colombia to open a new engineering office (300+ engineers)
• Responsible for the engineering operation in Colombia (1500+ engineers, grew 300% in 2021)
• Lead Digital Accounts, the product development organization (270+ engineers) responsible for:
• Money Inflows and Money Outflows initiatives moving billions of dollars every month in both digital money and cash for millions of users across most countries in LATAM.
• Investment products with over 25 million users invested in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, and almost USD 1B in AUM
• Open Banking products, integration, compliance and advocacy.
• Crypto products and initiatives

Jun 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Kickstarted a brand new engineering office for Mercado Pago in Mendoza, Argentina. We grew to 120+ developers and designers during the first 24 months.
• Lead Product Development for Payins, Payouts and Investments in Mercado Pago, our Fintech business unit.
• Lead multiple teams composed of Sr. managers, managers, project leaders, technical leaders and ICs. 50+ engineers in total.

Mar 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Remote & Distributed

• Led the managers of the Backend, Frontend, Native, and QA teams, and led the DevOps team hands-on
• Strategic planning of the engineering disciplines goals and objectives, and measurement of
• their execution
• Promoted, mentored, and coached managers
• Oversaw the annual budget for the engineering organization and defined key investments
• Contributed to the definition of company wide goals and strategic projects
• Coordinated cross-team and cross-discipline efforts to ensure engineering effectively supported
• the needs of the whole company and its different business units
• Created of a new engineering discipline, DevOps, whose tasks were previously handled by the
• Backend discipline. Actively worked to define its standards, direction, and tech stack.

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote & Distributed

• Led the Backend and Frontend teams
• Actively contributed to architect, build, and grow the internal frameworks and tools for the
• company
• Mentored developers and oversaw their professional development plan and budget
• Recruiting manager for the development team, which grew 3x over 2 years
• Defined and documented engineering standards and internal frameworks
• Strong impact on team’s output quality and high performance

Jun 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote & Distributed

• Led the development of complex enterprise web applications
• Coordinated with other disciplines to deliver on scope, timeline, and budget
• Mentored junior developers
• Actively contributed to architect, build, and grow the internal frameworks and tools
• Helped management with recruiting efforts
• Agile methodologies

Jul 2011 – Jun 2012 · 11 mos · Remote & Distributed

• Actively contributed to the core of a product used by tens of thousands of customers
• Architected and implemented tools to streamline, improve, and measure customer support
• efficacy
• Built and managed a distributed support team across multiple time zones to achieve 24x7
• coverage

Mar 2007 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

• Scoped, planned, actively contributed to the implementation of, and oversaw the development
• of a multitude of marketing websites and web applications
• Strong focus on eCommerce sites and online advertising
• Supported the sales team on selling technical projects
• Hired and trained junior developers

Oct 2001 – Dec 2007 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Buenos Aires Province, Argentina