Felipe

Responsible for product strategy, systems architecture, and financial viability of the platform. Driving the roadmap focused on cost efficiency and scalability from the initial design phase. As founding member, leading engineering strategy and organizational scaling for a stealth startup expanding across Latin America. Responsible for building high-performing engineering teams, defining scalable development and operational standards, and improving delivery efficiency through data-driven engineering practices and AI-assisted insights on engineering metrics (DORA, productivity, reliability).

Driving platform scalability, operational excellence, and cost optimization initiatives with strong focus on cloud efficiency and sustainable growth, while maintaining a fast-paced and execution-oriented startup culture.

Retained to architect, deploy, and lead the technical delivery of a highly confidential fintech product aimed at optimizing mortgage pricing analysis for the UK market. Acted as a catalyst for engineering excellence, transforming cross-functional workflows and establishing modern DevOps practices.

▪ Engineered a high-performance analytics platform that reduced mortgage pricing processing times from 2 days to under 2 hours, significantly accelerating the business unit's time-to-market

▪ Established a robust CI/CD pipeline integrated with automated testing frameworks for the Data Science team, securing zero-defect deployments and transforming legacy environment instability into a predictable release cycle.

▪ Implemented domain segregation between Backend and Data Science layers, driving architectural decoupling that eliminated deployment bottlenecks and accelerated release cycles.

▪ Exercised cross-functional leadership over Software Engineering, Platform (SRE/DevOps/SecOps), and Technical Operations. Direct management of 10 Engineers and organizational leadership for a 40-person tech structure, including Engineering Managers.

▪ Acted as the primary strategic partner for Business Heads across Underwriting, Pricing, and Inspection to align technology roadmaps with corporate P&L goals. Partnered with Business Heads and Product Managers to restructure quarter planning and epic prioritization. Resolved cross-functional alignment challenges, leading to an optimization of sprint predictability with a 95% delivery rate of committed milestones.

▪ Spearheaded the modernization of deployment strategies by introducing GitOps (ArgoCD), drastically reducing deployment lead times and system downtime while improving load balancing resilience.

▪ Drove technical recruitment strategies, bar-raising, and culture building, engineering high-performance frameworks and mentoring technical leaders to scale organizational capability

▪ Led a multicultural engineering structure (Brazil and Argentina) of 19 engineers (direct and indirect reports), aligning corporate growth strategy with software architecture and technical governance.

▪ Spearheaded the technical and operational scalability of a Fintech ecosystem processing USD 4.4B TPV, designing systems engineered for high throughput, strict regulatory compliance, and rapid portfolio expansion.

▪ Accountable for headcount budgeting, strategic hiring, and performance evaluation. Restructured the engineering department using Team Topologies concepts to enable a fast flow of value, doubling the team's capacity and preparing the organizational layout for rapid scale-up.

▪ Managed and scaled critical decision-making systems for transactional security, encompassing anti-fraud engines for credit cards, loans, government ID validation, device fingerprinting, and Instant Payments (PIX).

▪ Led the cross-functional engineering team responsible for the strategic post-acquisition migration and tech integration of Cornershop into Uber's core infrastructure across the LATAM region.

▪ Managed global stakeholder communication (including engineering hubs in India and business leaders in LATAM) to translate regional operational nuances into scalable microservices architecture and system designs.

▪ Directed the end-to-end migration, contract management, and eventual cessation of legacy banking and payment integrations, orchestrating data and infrastructure transitions across 6 countries (Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil).

▪ Oversephered the technical management of an inventory engine tracking 1 Million assets monthly, coordinating automated mail tracking, remote hardware activation, and stock procurement optimized through statistical analysis.

▪ Nurtured a high-performance culture, leading engineers through organizational change management, establishing clear career progression paths, and driving engineering excellence in Go environments.

▪ Migration and cessation of Banks' integration, managing over 5 million physical cards between two companies and Latin America countries, overseeing contracts and funds, and evaluating APIs and metrics.

▪ Performance evaluation and change management, demonstrating exceptional multitasking and organization skills, analytical mindset, and attention to detail.

▪ Led the Engineering and Infrastructure teams responsible for Core Banking, Card Issuing, and Anti-Fraud systems across LATAM and US&C, overseeing a high-throughput transactional volume of USD 5M+ daily.

▪ Accountable for full-lifecycle talent management (hiring, performance metrics, and career framework design), mentoring an 8-engineer squad in advanced architecture, data structures, and cross-functional stakeholder communication during high-severity incidents.

▪ Directed the technological transition and resource migration into Uber’s global stack while ensuring the continuous availability and uptime of Cornershop’s legacy payment services.

▪ Coordinated the deployment of proprietary digital payment networks across Latin American merchants, processing over USD 1M daily. Eliminated standard card network fees through direct merchant routing and engineered custom automated reconciliation engines per storefront.

▪ Implemented anonymization of phone numbers for calls, using conference rooms from different providers by country, paying for the best fee per call, which reduced the report of spam from our phone numbers

▪ Acted as the Technical Lead for a multicultural engineering squad across Latin America, pioneering the adoption of the Shape Up product development methodology to accelerate delivery cycles.

▪ Directed the refactoring of a core Django monorepo into a highly scalable Modular Monolith, segregating domain boundaries to empower distributed engineering squads and optimize CI/CD pipelines.

▪ Spearheaded the architectural decoupling of core financial systems, establishing international payment rails and high-availability integrations across LATAM, the USA, and Canada.

▪ Led the end-to-end integration of tier-1 banking systems and 3D Secure (3DS) authentication protocols for real-time payment approvals. Deployed comprehensive observability and alerting frameworks across global banking APIs.

▪ Architected a decentralized payment processing engine capable of dynamically handling cross-border variations, including multiple fiat currencies, BIN ranges, card brands, prepaid models, and complex authorization/settlement workflows.

▪ Standardized asynchronous API documentation and communication contracts across squads, drastically minimizing cross-team friction and dependencies while actively driving technical interviewing and bar-raising for engineering talent acquisition