
Enrique Cofone
@enriquecofone
I scale global engineering organizations and proprietary sportsbook platforms across regulated markets.
What I'm looking for
At LeoVegas Group, part of MGM Resorts, I lead 170+ engineers across 25 teams delivering proprietary sportsbook platforms for regulated international markets. I scaled the organization after the Tipico US acquisition and rolled out the platform across five markets while enabling more than 50x traffic growth.
Across Amazon, Eventbrite, Verisk, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, and Monsanto, I've led platform modernization, digital product strategy, architecture, payments, and global delivery. I build engineering leadership organizations that connect technology strategy, operational excellence, and international growth.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Responsible for the engineering strategy, delivery execution, scalability, and operational performance of LeoVegas Group’s proprietary sportsbook platforms, supporting rapid international expansion across regulated markets.
Currently leading 170+ engineers across 25 engineering teams and multiple leadership layers, including heads of engineering, engineering managers, principal engineers, and arch
▫Lead Payments chapter, responsible for providing the most personalized payment experience to our events consumers at the same time we support a first class payment backend infrastructure.
▫Drive the entire roadmap for our Payments ecosystem including social payments, personalization, Risk & Fraud management, expansion of new payment methods and increasing our payment gateway infrastructure and r
▫ Lead strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives and define technical direction, managing resource allocation between multiple engineering teams.
▫ Hire and develop engineering teams that are responsible for design, development, and operations
▫ Manage and mentor dev managers and engineers, ensuring organizational health and career development within your organization
▫ Lead
▫Oversaw the end-to-end architecture for entire functional areas, ensuring the architecture is optimal and aligned to mid/long-term product strategies.
▫Provided technical advice regarding architecture standards, ADRs, Technology Radar and led design reviews for 8 development teams (50 engineers).
▫Owned technical projects which spanned across multiple teams, departments or introduced new technolo
▫ Led the development of a greenfield flagship Remodeling Estimating Software (XactRemodel) to support US and Canada regions.
▫ Defined, recruited and formed an entire development team in Malaga, being responsible for their delivery performance, software quality and career progression.
▫ Oversaw the architecture and technical decisions of the product fully deployed in AWS, automated CI/CD, Sketchi
▫ Connected business needs with the entrepreneurial environment accelerating the digital transformation in strategic areas such as Digital Consumer, Recommendation Systems and ML for Automated Stock Replenishment.
▫ Selected, prioritized and executed the innovation digital agenda portfolio for South America region.
▫ Mentored to product and engineering teams in their plans to adopt Engineering wor
▫ Led the product strategy, roadmap, launching and product enhancements for our core digital seed platforms in South America supporting trading and value capturing of bio-modified seeds & grains. Both platforms generated USD 900M annual revenue.
▫ Led the definition of the product vision, strategy, roadmap and software architecture for the new barter digital platform offering a marketplace to use
Senior IT Manager, Value Capture Business Platform
Jan 2011 - Feb 2016 (5 years 1 month)
▫ Led the development of a greenfield value capture digital platform unlocking USD 600M annual revenue; supporting planting, detection and billing of biotechnology traits for soybean exports in South America.
▫ Oversaw all the product development areas needed to develop this platform, including: product management, project management, software engineering, software architecture and devops.
▫ Le
▫ Created more +10 large-scale software architectures including the design of a Business Process Management solution for a major Telco company in Latin America reducing the time of provisioning IaaS services up to 300%.
▫ Led the Software Solution Center of Excellence in charge of designing digital solutions for Telco Industry combining IBM architecture best practices and IBM software.
▫ Chief ad
▫ Designed the overall IT enterprise/SOA architecture and process/application integration middleware strategy increasing IT flexibility to implement new business requirements.
▫ Implemented a Center of Excellence team to provide application integration services through the corporate ESB middleware reducing +30% of development costs.
▫ Led the development of the multi-channel e-commerce capabiliti
▫ Designed the applications strategy, long term roadmap and software engineering methodology.
▫ Successfully led all ABAP developments for the SAP ECC 5.0 implementation and upgrade to 6.0.
▫ Implemented a Workforce and License Management in-house applications in JAVA integrated with the core ERP (SAP). Hands-on experience in ABAP and JAVA coding.
▫ Participated in five SAP ERP implementation projects as Senior ABAP Developer.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Universidad Nacional de La Matanza
Master's degree, Information Systems Engineering
1996 - 2000
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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