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    "name": "Gabriel Vargas",
    "label": "Head of Engineering",
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-vargas/",
    "summary": "Engineering leader with 6+ years scaling teams at Mercado Libre, the Inter-American Development Bank, and itti. Currently driving AI-first engineering practices (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) while leading architectural transformations of complex systems. Building high-trust teams. Trusted by senior stakeholders to align cross-functional teams and influence roadmap priorities in matrix organizations.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Buenos Aires",
      "countryCode": "AR"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-vargas/"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "url": "https://github.com/Gabrielvargas94"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "itti",
      "position": "Software Engineering Manager",
      "startDate": "2024-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Oversaw strategic engineering initiatives and team performance across key products (Monchis, then muv) within itti's ecosystem.",
        "Align engineering, product, and design in a cross-functional environment; negotiate priorities with business stakeholders and engage senior leadership on technical strategy and quarterly planning.",
        "Embedded in a core team (<40 people) driving itti's AI adoption strategy — rolling out Claude Code, Cursor, and AI-assisted development practices across the broader engineering organization."
      ],
      "location": "Remote",
      "keywords": [
        "AI Adoption Strategy",
        "Claude Code",
        "Cursor",
        "Engineering Leadership",
        "Technical Strategy",
        "People Management"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "muv (itti product)",
      "position": "Engineering Manager",
      "startDate": "2024-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a full architectural transformation of a high-concurrency mobile platform (React Native + Java microservices on AWS & GCP), significantly improving system stability and NPS scores.",
        "Introduced AI-assisted development practices (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Superpowers) across the 12-person team, accelerating delivery cycles and reducing repetitive development overhead.",
        "Designed and delivered a micro-apps architecture that decoupled deployments, enabling independent team velocity and reducing cross-team bottlenecks.",
        "Championed engineering quality standards: code review culture, observability tooling, and incident response processes that brought reliability to production-grade levels.",
        "Deployed and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP, ensuring compliance, scalability, and uptime."
      ],
      "location": "Remote",
      "keywords": [
        "React Native",
        "Java",
        "AWS",
        "GCP",
        "Micro-apps Architecture",
        "High-Concurrency Systems",
        "Engineering Leadership"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Monchis (itti product)",
      "position": "Engineering Manager",
      "startDate": "2024-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a full architectural redesign of the mobile platform (React Native + microservices on AWS), achieving stability and performance improvements that impacted user retention.",
        "Integrated and modernized legacy systems, enabling new feature development and restoring engineering momentum.",
        "Delivered the platform stabilization and architectural redesign, leading to internal reassignment to the muv product line to replicate these results at greater scale."
      ],
      "endDate": "2024-12",
      "location": "Remote",
      "keywords": [
        "React Native",
        "AWS",
        "Microservices",
        "Architectural Redesign",
        "Engineering Leadership"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mercado Libre",
      "position": "Project Leader (Tech Lead Manager)",
      "startDate": "2022-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a team of 8 engineers across design, delivery, and execution — collaborating directly with technical leads on architecture decisions while owning team performance and roadmap.",
        "Owned and co-architected high-stakes financial processing tools built on Golang, handling daily multi-million-dollar batch workloads at the core of MercadoPago's operations.",
        "Maintained and scaled a critical internal operations platform trusted by 100+ internal teams, central to MercadoPago's core workflows and consolidating data across all business units.",
        "Drove adoption and evolution of a frontend framework used as a core standard across the organization, improving reliability and developer experience at scale."
      ],
      "endDate": "2024-03",
      "location": "Argentina",
      "keywords": [
        "Golang",
        "Financial Systems",
        "Tech Leadership",
        "Engineering Management",
        "Distributed Systems"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Inter-American Development Bank",
      "position": "Engineering Manager",
      "startDate": "2020-03",
      "highlights": [
        "Delivered engineering for multiple projects at one of the world's most influential multilateral development banks.",
        "Managed cross-functional teams of 60+ people across engineering, design, product, and policy, ensuring delivery across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.",
        "Presented technical strategy and trade-offs to C-level leadership and influenced roadmap priorities across a large matrix organization.",
        "Reduced time-to-market by 30% by addressing technical debt and implementing Microfrontend architecture using Angular and Vue, enabling modular, independently deployable frontends across multiple product teams.",
        "Engaged initially as a full-time consultant, then continued as a flexible contractor leading internal projects — a structure that allowed concurrent engagement with Mercado Libre from May 2022 onward."
      ],
      "endDate": "2023-06",
      "keywords": [
        "Microfrontends",
        "Angular",
        "Vue",
        "C-Level Communication",
        "Cross-functional Leadership",
        "Matrix Organizations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "GM2",
      "position": "Technical Team Lead (Consultant)",
      "startDate": "2021-03",
      "highlights": [
        "Engaged as a technical consultant on a short-term, high-priority project with a critical delivery deadline.",
        "Restructured the project architecture, resolved key technical blockers, and led the team to a successful on-time production launch."
      ],
      "endDate": "2021-08",
      "keywords": [
        "Technical Consulting",
        "Architectural Refactoring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Qu POS",
      "position": "Sr. Frontend Developer",
      "startDate": "2018-11",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed a complex configuration system for a restaurant POS platform using Vue, within an international team based in Washington D.C.",
        "Contributed to product and engineering improvements that helped establish the company as one of the top players in the U.S. restaurant software market, serving thousands of franchise locations."
      ],
      "endDate": "2019-12",
      "location": "Washington, D.C. (Remote)",
      "keywords": [
        "Vue",
        "Frontend Architecture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Freelance",
      "position": "Frontend & Mobile Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Delivered end-to-end web and mobile projects for clients across multiple industries, with primary focus on Angular, Vue, and React Native."
      ],
      "endDate": "2019-12",
      "keywords": [
        "Angular",
        "Vue",
        "React Native"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Universidad Tecnológica Nacional",
      "studyType": "B.Sc.",
      "area": "Information Systems Engineering",
      "note": "coursework complete"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Leadership & Strategy",
      "keywords": [
        "Engineering Leadership",
        "Team Scaling (8–60+ people)",
        "Roadmap Ownership",
        "OKRs",
        "Strategic Thinking",
        "Matrix Organization Navigation",
        "Architectural Strategy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Architecture & Cloud",
      "keywords": [
        "Architectural Refactoring",
        "Microservices & APIs",
        "Microfrontends",
        "High-Concurrency Systems",
        "Distributed Systems",
        "AWS",
        "GCP",
        "High Availability",
        "Fault Tolerance",
        "Scalability"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Cross-Functional Influence",
      "keywords": [
        "C-Level Communication",
        "Stakeholder Negotiation",
        "Cross-functional Alignment",
        "Technical Strategy Presentation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Technologies",
      "keywords": [
        "React Native",
        "React",
        "Vue",
        "Angular",
        "Golang",
        "Java",
        "Node.js"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Methodology & Culture",
      "keywords": [
        "Agile / Scrum",
        "Results-Driven Execution",
        "AI-Assisted Development (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor)",
        "Talent Development & Team Growth"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "Spanish",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Advanced (FCE B2)"
    },
    {
      "language": "Portuguese",
      "fluency": "Basic"
    }
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    {
      "name": "Introduction to Model Context Protocol",
      "date": "2026-05-16",
      "issuer": "Anthropic"
    },
    {
      "name": "Introduction to Agent Skills",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
      "issuer": "Anthropic"
    },
    {
      "name": "Building with the Claude API",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
      "issuer": "Anthropic",
      "status": "in-progress"
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude 101",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
      "issuer": "Anthropic"
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude Code 101",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
      "issuer": "Anthropic"
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude Code in Action",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
      "issuer": "Anthropic"
    },
    {
      "name": "Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
      "issuer": "Anthropic",
      "status": "in-progress"
    },
    {
      "name": "Introduction to Subagents",
      "date": "2026-04-20",
      "issuer": "Anthropic"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE, Level B2)",
      "date": "2018-01",
      "issuer": "Cambridge English"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "D&D AI Companion",
      "description": "A multi-tenant AI companion for tabletop RPG players and Dungeon Masters. Handles D&D, Pathfinder, Vampire: the Masquerade, and other rulesets. Helps create characters, full campaigns, translate campaigns across rulesets or settings (e.g., Forgotten Realms → another setting).",
      "keywords": [
        "Claude Code API",
        "ChatGPT API",
        "Graph Architecture (per tenant + campaign)",
        "Custom Tools / Harness",
        "Agent-as-a-Service"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Complete graph architecture per tenant, per campaign — with a translation layer between non-compatible graph schemas.",
        "Custom tools, harness in-code and as a product, Agent-as-a-Service (not just SaaS).",
        "Scheduled workflows + multi-provider LLM orchestration (Claude + GPT).",
        "Reduces the need to read thousands of pages of source material for a quality RPG experience."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI-First Engineering Lectures",
      "description": "Talks oriented to engineering and management teams on how to operate in an AI-first world — beyond \"becoming AI-first,\" covers \"management scope\" problems: code review under AI, recovering from AI-caused production incidents, secret management, harness integration, agentic workflows.",
      "keywords": [
        "Harness",
        "Agentic Workflows",
        "Claude Code",
        "Cursor"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Topic: Harness and Agentic Workflows.",
        "Topic: Management problems in an AI-first world — code review, incident recovery from AI-caused issues, secret management, harness integration, agentic workflow design."
      ]
    }
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