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

November 2022 - Present

Fairplay

Head of Engineering

Remote
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.
January 2021 - November 2022

Urbvan (Acquired by Swvl)

Head of Engineering

Remote
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.
July 2018 - January 2021

Urbvan

Team Lead

On-site
Remote
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.
July 2018 - January 2021

Urbvan

iOS Mobile Engineer

On-site
Remote
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.
January 2016 - December 2017

Torque Studio

Fullstack Developer

Remote
Part-time
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 Technologies

iOS Developer

On-site
November 2016 - January 2017

Wheels Social

iOS Developer

Independent
Remote
January 2014 - December 2016

UNAM Mobile

Head of iOS Team & iOS Developer

Part-time
July 2014 - August 2015

Last Room

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

February 2016

Grupo Modelo & Google Mexico

April 2014

NASA Public Project

January 2014

Government of the Federal District

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

Contacts

Links

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