Fernando Soto

Key Responsibilities: Impact & Achievements:

As an Engineering Manager at Orbi, I was responsible for defining and implementing the engineering structure, processes, and methodologies that enabled the organization to scale efficiently while maintaining high technical and operational standards. My leadership encompassed managing a team of 20+ engineers, establishing Agile methodologies across different team topologies, and ensuring seamless collaboration with stakeholders and C-level executives.

• Engineering Leadership & Team StructureDesigned and implemented team topologies aligned with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
  Scaled and structured cross-functional teams to improve collaboration and efficiency.
  Provided technical mentorship and guidance to engineering leads and individual contributors.
  
• Agile & Delivery ManagementEstablished Agile frameworks (Scrum & Kanban) tailored to the needs of each team.
  Created and optimized continuous delivery processes to ensure efficient, high-quality software releases.
  Developed reporting mechanisms for transparency and alignment with stakeholders and C-level executives.
  
• Strategic Initiatives & ExecutionDelivered 120+ initiatives, driving the successful execution of complex technical projects.
  
  Led the technical development and integration of critical financial systems, including:Integration with BIN sponsors for seamless transaction processing.
  Development of payment transfer systems, ensuring security and compliance.
  Implementation of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring tools for risk management.
  Creation of operational support tools to enhance internal efficiency.
  Technical leadership for the client-facing application, ensuring scalability and performance.
  
• Stakeholder & Executive CollaborationReported directly to C-level executives, providing strategic insights and technical roadmaps.
  Ensured alignment between business objectives and engineering execution.
  Fostered a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.
  
• Scaled and structured engineering teams, enabling them to deliver complex projects efficiently.
• Built processes for structured work execution, improving delivery timelines and quality.
• Successfully launched key financial integrations and platforms, supporting the company's growth.

Through my leadership, Orbi's engineering team matured into a high-performance organization capable of delivering scalable, secure, and innovative financial solutions.

• Coordinated the engineering team across multiple development projects, ensuring efficient execution and delivery.
• Led the legacy Cash product, which processes $100M MXN in microloans monthly, overseeing its stability and scalability.
• Defined and prioritized engineering tasks to maintain steady project progress.
• Maintained comprehensive records for each project and engineering discipline.
• Implemented quality assurance measures by reviewing progress controls and ensuring compliance with standards.
• Mentored and trained junior engineers in workstation design and material handling best practices.
• Identified and mitigated technical risks across managed projects.
• Provided technical direction on system development methodologies to enhance performance and maintainability.
• Assessed the impact of modification requests for ongoing projects to minimize disruptions.
• Evaluated and processed change order requests to address out-of-scope work efficiently.
• Recommended and implemented process improvements to reduce inefficiencies and optimize resource utilization.

• My main responsibility was to be an un-blocker of anything for developers teams at my charge
• I coordinated with Product Manager for translating of product requirements to tech stories with DDD architecture
• Helping organizing teams across products dependencies
• I encouraged to use of unit testing implementations
• Creating definitions for roles
• Creating technical tests for talent acquisitions
• Interviewing developers as technical meet
• Defining backlogs boards for sprints ands Qs

• Managed company-level architecture, platform and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.
• Implementation of microservices architecture.
• Maintained high-level knowledge of current and emerging technology development and applications.
• Facilitated ongoing team development and growth through training and professional skills enhancement.
• Interpreted multifaceted technological issues into defined frameworks and highly scripted action plans.
• Developed and implemented long-term strategic technological blueprint.
• Coordinated third-party vendors and client IT teams to seamlessly deliver effective solutions.
• Maintained thorough understanding of all key and current technologies, platforms and trends.
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously embrace macro-level strategic decisions and micro-level implementation.

• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
• Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
• Collaborated with cross-functional intra-company teams to provide mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Interpreted multifaceted technological issues into defined frameworks and highly scripted action plans.

• Managed company-level architecture, platform and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.
• Completed and submitted monthly and yearly kpi reports to support executive decision making.
• Developed and implemented long-term strategic technological blueprint.
• Improved program delivery performance and reliability.
• Coordinated third-party vendors and client IT teams to seamlessly deliver effective solutions.
• Maintained thorough understanding of all key and current technologies, platforms and trends.
• Collaborated with cross-functional intra-company teams to provide mutually beneficial outcomes.
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• Marzo de 2009 - enero de 2010 (11 meses.
• Communicated with product managers and UX designers to translate project requirements and business objectives into polished user interfaces.
• Improved and expanded project platforms using JavaScript to develop rich User Interfaces.
• Devised site maps, user flows, wireframes and mockups for designs based on proven methodologies, stakeholder requests and end-user feedback.
• Planned and engineered RESTful web services to manipulate dynamic datasets.

• For the Esmas.com CMS octubre de 2006 - marzo de 2008 (1 año 6 meses) Page 3 of 4 I was Front End development leader for the cms of the largest site contained in Latin America Esmás.com with more than 6M of unique visits daily.
• One of the most ambitious projects of Televisa.
• Developed in PHP with various Web Services for different requirements of the platform, our work managed to remove JAVA technology from the entire CMS achieving minimized resources requirements.

• This project was my hobby, training first-level engineering students in emerging technologies such as Nodejs, MongoDB, Nginx, Redis, Development Paradigms such as SCRUM and Agile Development, as well as for developers to become interested in the quality of the final product of their projects (design and user experience) that are not very common in LATAM.
• Other technologies we handled were Wordpress, PHP, Mysql, SaSS, enero de 2010 - marzo de 2013 (3 años 3 meses.

• Universidad del Valle de México Ingeniería, Ingeniería de sistemas Page 4 of 4.