Manuel Montes

Senior Engineering Manager

Twilio Inc.

Jan 2023 - Current (1 year 4 months)

- Guided by removing blockers, proposing technical solutions, and allowing straightforward communication between the involved teams and stakeholders, for the team to finalize the authentication channels' orchestration projects on time. - Directed the team's OKRs and objectives defined for the 2023 Q2 period, thus the product-related initiatives were considered alongside the required engineering ones for analysis and maintenance to keep the platform's quality objectives. - Maintained periodic meetings with leaders and the team, to evaluate and analyze the behavior of the services' SLOs and SLIs, and to visualize and agree on areas for improvement. - Prioritized the required work to address the platform's security vulnerabilities and improve

Principal Software Engineer

Twilio Inc.

Mar 2022 - Dec 2022 (10 months)

- Identified the team services' most critical user journeys and their components from a business point of view and defined the metrics (SLIs and subsequently SLOs) that accurately served to measure and guarantee customer satisfaction. - Built, discussed, and divulged with the different Verification and Trusted Activation stakeholders the architectural designs for the most relevant initiatives regarding the team's north star for 2023. - Updated and migrated the team's services architecture diagrams to the C4 model (using C4-PlantUML), to help better describe and communicate designs and document the existing codebase. - Delivered guidance and experience with the IaC (Infrastructure as a code) provider to the business unit's engineering team i

Co-Founder, Senior Tech Lead and Deputy Architect

Torre

Nov 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 5 months)

- Supervised and successfully guided the architecture changes required to support the company's growth, leading to one million registered users by the end of 2020. - Had weekly feedback sessions with the Holding's leaders about pushing new technology topics and strategic decisions by adapting the Braintrusts methodology described in the Creativity Inc. book. - Established recurrent mentoring sessions with the company's junior Tech Leads to visualize and analyze technical blockers and management threats and discuss solutions. - Led the recruitment efforts (i.e., define processes, interviews, and technical and cognitive tests) to bring engineers of multiple seniorities to the company's product development squads needed to expand the platform

Tech Lead

Bunny Inc.

Jan 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 10 months)

- Conducted the team in charge of writing a new version of the front-end for the online resume by using Typescript with NuxtJS framework (SSR) over VueJS and Jest for TDD, following a Kaban agile methodology. - Guided by the architect, defined and set up in AWS (i.e., EC2, ELB, Docker, RDS), GCP, and CloudAMQP the infrastructure needed to support the platform's distributed architecture. - Worked beside the platform architect the analysis, design, coding, and guidance of the technical team in charge of developing the ATS (i.e., Applicant Tracking System) like functionalities (e.g., job posting, candidates application flow, pipeline, messages) of the platform. - Achieved with the product team the definition and implementation of a tracking pl

Senior Full-stack Developer

Bunny Inc.

Apr 2016 - Dec 2016 (9 months)

- Alongside the Product Manager, I completed several high-fidelity design sprints prototypes (i.e., https://www.thesprintbook.com/) to evaluate product ideas using Javascript, NodeJS, and Firebase Realtime Database. - Coded the RESTful API for the first version of the online resume (i.e., now referred to as Torre Genome) by utilizing Scala with the Play framework for a highly scalable solution and Scalatest and Mockito for TDD. - Developed the first version of the online resume front-end by following a one-way data flow pattern and utilizing Typescript with the Angular framework.

Senior Front-end developer

Bunny Inc.

Oct 2015 - Mar 2016 (6 months)

- Coded several UI/UX improvements to the platform's functionality under the different categories (i.e., voice, writing, and design) by utilizing PHP with the Cake Framework, MySQL, and Javascript with JQuery following a Scrum agile methodology. - Migrated several segments from a legacy MVC project in PHP to new front-end web components using AngularJS.

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Co-Founder and CTO

Insignia S.A.S

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Co-Founder and Lead Software Development Engineer

Desarrollos con Ingenio S.A.S.

Jan 2012 - Sep 2015 (3 years 9 months)

- In charge of the conceptualization, architecture and selection of appropriate applications technology. Technologies used included: ASP .NET MVC, Web API, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, SQL Database, SQL Business Intelligence, HTML, CSS Bootstrap, jQuery and MV* Frameworks Angular, Knockout and Durandal. - Managed and coordinated development teams. Teams consisted of 2 to 5 people and included software engineers and sales representatives. - Directed, monitored and analyzed the definition of software tests in all business applications. This resulted in reduced critical updates in the early stages of the implementations and increased customer satisfaction. - Provided technical support to the customized web solutions sales team in interviews an

Co-Founder and Board Member

Siempresas S.A. (formerly Siempresas Ltda.)

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011 (2 years)

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Co-Founder and Board Member

Fundación Identidades y Memoria

Jun 2009 - Jun 2012 (3 years 1 month)

- Analyzed monthly reports including financial statements results. - Supervised and organized the technical platform (webpage, email, calendar and document sharing) of the foundation. - Assisted board members in the definition and structuring of the foundation work areas. Main responsibilities involved tourism publications areas decisions and products advice.

Co-Founder and Lead Software Development Engineer

Siempresas S.A.

Jan 2004 - Dec 2009 (6 years)

- Led the structuration, funding and business plan for the development of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. - Directed the architecture design and the development of the different ERP software modules. Modules developed included: Accounting -Colombian GAAP and IFRS-, asset and cash management, payables, receivables, budgeting, banking, human resources, manufacturing, purchasing, inventory, warehouses, sales and marketing. - Personally developed the ERP budgeting and marketing modules. - Controlled and oversaw software beta versions tests. - Commanded the selection, implementation and adoption by the different company teams of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. This approach to our software implementation inc

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