Luis Chavez
Luis Armando Chavez Soto
Engineer Manager | Software Engineer
Mexico City, MexicoVenezuela
With almost 10 years of experience...
In software development, my greatest passion is creating technological products that positively impact people's lives. As a leader, I am dedicated to building strong teams and establishing strategies that foster innovation and a sense of belonging. I am particularly passionate about developing new leaders and creating a culture where anyone, regardless of their level of experience, can successfully lead.
Work Experience
As the leader of one of the engineering teams at Fairplay, I focus on developing multidisciplinary projects to integrate financial services and expand our functionalities to third parties, with a particular focus on systems related to card usage and automated payment and collection processes.
Led the Urbvan Engineering team, guiding them in executing the CTO's technical vision and overseeing the migration of infrastructure between AWS and GCP. Additionally, I handled individual professional development, infrastructure cost management, and the successful completion of engineering projects.
Led the mobile development team at Urbvan and contributed to the backend team for key applications. Supervised the development of new features in iOS, Android, and Flutter, as well as designed a real-time travel monitoring system in Node.js. This initiative improved visibility and facilitated device integration. Also collaborated in creating back-office systems to optimize internal management of routes and trips.
Creator of the Urbvan iOS application, actively contributed to brainstorming with key teams in the company to implement new features, thus enhancing the user experience.
Focused on providing technological solutions for clients' specific needs, especially in the On-Demand services realm. Highlights include developing a comprehensive ecosystem for premium On-Demand beauty services, as well as implementing point-of-sale (POS) and On-Demand systems for restaurants, along with billing systems for private enterprises.
March 2017 - March 2017
AMK TechnologiesOn-site
iOS Developer
On-site
November 2016 - January 2017
Wheels SocialIndependentRemote
iOS Developer
Independent
Remote
July 2014 - August 2015
Last RoomIndependent
iOS Developer
Independent
Education
2013 - 2018
Faculty of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Computer Engineering - Incomplete degree
Skills
Mobile Development
iOS
Android
Swift
Objective-C
Kotlin
Flutter
Dart
Web Development (Backend & Frontend)
Python
FastAPI
Flask
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
React
Vue
Data Engineering
MongoDB
SQL
GCP - Google Cloud Platform
AWS - Amazon Web Services
Sentry
Fastlane
Firebase
Docker
K8S - Kubernetes
Traccar
No Code Platforms
Soft Skills
🔥 Passion for trying, failing, and learning
👥 Team leadership
🛠️ Engineering management
🤝 Collaboration between technical teams, business, and product
⏳ Time management and resource allocation
🚀 Team building
💼 Relationship development
💰 Experience in managing capital asset budgets
Awards
Participations
August 2016
Protocol Oriented Programming
NSCoders Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
June 2015
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 Scholarship
Apple
San Francisco, CA, USA
July 2014
My First Augmented Reality Application with Vuforia and Unity
Qualcomm Mexico, Campus Party
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
June 2014
UNAM Books - Connected Bookstore
UNAM Mobile - CIDI - Stanford Design School
Stanford, CA, USA