David Camargo

About

Software Engineering Leader. I love to build huge digital products. Techie building inclusive fintech products - Leadership Mentor @ Lidr.co

Experience

• Leadership Mentor · Lidr.co | Training great Tech Leaders03-01-2022

  - Specialized in mentoring engineers for technical leadership roles. - Emphasized software engineering management and team development skills. - Guidance for tech leaders struggling with their careers.

• Chief Technology Officer · Stealth FinTech Startup04-01-2023

  - Launched a remittance app to send money from Europe to Africa - Direct involvement in MVP development, technical decisions, and engineering team assembly. - Managed the 3rd party integrations for payouts, KYC, and compliance. - Ensure good practices within the team (code review, pair programming, continuous delivery) Tech Stack: React, TailwindCSS, NextJS, Github Actions, Serverless, Java, Spring Boot

• VP of Engineering · Instaleap SaaS03-01-2019 – 03-01-2023

  VP of Engineering of https://instaleap.io, my main accomplishments - Coded and launched 2 of the most crucial products in the company (Order Orchestration & Shipping, Saas eCommerce) from idea to operations - I helped design the architecture of a distributed system with distributed databases and services for the 16 products of the company. - Led the tech team to create a product that generated over 2M ARR in less than 2 years, and achieved USD 1 Billion in GMV in 4 years. - Grew the team. Assessed and hired more than 102+ people for the engineering and product management department. I built a distributed team in 7 different countries. - Managed the engineering team (from a small team of 10 to approx 85), with 10 direct reporters. - Planted and harvested new teams and initiatives (from software engineering to support). Including product and architectural decisions. Coding when needed. - Be a central coordinator between different stakeholders (internal and external) to achieve consistent business results and foster a good collaboration culture Tech stack: Node.JS, Typescript, Python, ECS, RabbitMQ, Terraform, PostgreSQL, ReactJS, Apollo GraphQL, Firebase

• CTO · HippoBanco05-01-2019 – 01-01-2021

  Technical co-founder of HippoBanco, a company that tried to change how mortgage loans are issued in Latam (Focus was changed through product validation). Main accomplishments: - Validated the business model. - Developed 2 MVPs (Mortgage Tracking System and Express Loan Application). - Participated in Y Combinator Startup School. - Evaluated some credit score models and integrations with third-party providers (fraud, banks, etc) Tech stack: NodeJS, MongoDB, React, Docker, Flask, Python, Gitlab CI/CD

• Tech Lead · Mercadoni08-01-2018 – 07-01-2019

  - Led a team of 15 engineers(backend, web, iOS, Android) for our client-facing applications. - Propose and execute several projects to scale the architecture of the systems and improve reliability and performance. - Established and enforced several guidelines on core systems that helped other teams to experiment with our codebase. - Delivered major versions of the applications (web, iOS, Android) and rescued several dead-end projects. - Helped the customer service team to achieve a positive NPS - Tracked several system metrics with Prometheus and Grafana, and some product metrics with Google Analytics and Metabase (SQL) - Coordinated work with the head of product and the head of engineering. Our tech stack: Node.JS, ECS, RabbitMQ as a message queue, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React/Redux/Sagas, Firebase, Kotlin, and Swift. CI/CD with BitRise (mobile), Codepipeline (backend), and Jenkins (Frontend)

Education

• Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasSystems Engineering, Software Engineering

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