Uruguay

Back-end

Full stack

Project Management

Data engineering

Architectural Engineering

Security Engineering

Generative AI

Universidad Catolica

Marcos Martínez

Marcos Martinez

Github

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Python

Airflow

JavaScript

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Node.js

Cursor

ChatGPT

GitHub

REST API

Java

Stakeholder management

Project management

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Key Responsibilities:

- Engineering Culture & Talent Growth: Nurturing a high-performance team of 25+ developers and tech leads by defining career paths, mentoring through 1-on-1s, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.

- Strategic Technical Oversight: Defining Loopstudio’s technology roadmap, ensuring our stack and processes remain competitive and aligned with long-term business goals.

- Solution Architecting & Pre-sales: Bridging the gap between business needs and technical feasibility, crafting tailored proposals that balance budget, timelines, and optimal talent allocation.

- Strategic Hands-on Leadership: Serving as a fractional Engineering Manager or Tech Lead for high-impact projects

- Led the Implementation of a new business flow for a new type of warehouse called Receiving Center. From product discovery to MVP, I’ve Interacted with several teams to define contracts for the communication of multiple Microservices and implemented them.
- Played a key role in establishing and negotiating the interactions of our system with microservices from other teams, proposing and agreeing upon the best integration strategies to ensure optimal efficiency and cohesion
- Worked closely with Project Manager to translate business requirements into technical definitions to organize and delegate sprint tasks. 
- Mentored and lead a group of 5 developers 
- Implemented new features and reduced bugs into several 24/7 microservices. 
- Tech involved: Golang, Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, Microservices, MySQL and Mercado Libre's Cloud Platform Services (Event Bus, Distributed Lock, Continuous Integration, Monitoring and Alerts)

- Lead developer of an open source blockchain payments platform(https://github.com/rsksmart/lumino) in which I was in charge of research, design, implementation, code reviews, technical guidance of the team and also sprint planning.
- Design and implementation of a decentralized crypto exchange for https://lamden.io that runs on a private Ethereum PoA network

- Implementation of exchange's business logic on solidity smart contracts and a dApp for end users and administrators.
- Mentored new devs into blockchain technology through internal projects of the company.
- Implementation of a React Native mobile application for an Uruguayan exchange.
- Integration of Life Cinema's web sales with a payment gateway (https://www.plexo.com.uy/) to allow credit card payments (https://www.lifecinemas.com.uy/)

Web development for the Central Bank of Uruguay

- GePa: Web application for Central Bank of Uruguay for loan and debt administration (https://www.bcu.gub.uy)

- MetaModels: New features and improvements of a MVC framework used for generating Java EE applications

Marcos Martínez🇺🇾