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Luis Chavez

@luischavez2

I build and scale regulated fintech infrastructure serving millions of users and transactions.

Chile
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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead engineering and product work that scales regulated financial infrastructure, combines cloud-native systems with payments innovation, and delivers reliable experiences for millions of users.

Strategic Engineering Leader and CTO with over 20 years of experience building, scaling, and governing mission-critical financial infrastructure. Proven track record leading national hyperscale platforms, including the architectural evolution and resilience of Cuenta RUT (over 13 million active users and over 20 million daily transactions) at BancoEstado. As CTO and CPO at Baaskit, he designed and implemented a cloud-native Banking-as-a-Service BaaS infrastructure from scratch, achieving a transaction volume of USD $25 million per month, leading the acquisition of acquiring licenses from the CMF Chilean Financial Market Commission) and securing major direct memberships with Visa and Mastercard. Specialist in high-availability distributed systems, event-driven architectures Serverless, Microservices, AWS, and aligning fintech innovation with stringent regulatory and cybersecurity frameworks.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Baaskit logoBA
Current

CTO & CPO

Baaskit

Apr 2023 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Led the end-to-end design of a core-agnostic Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, scaling it to a $14M valuation. Secured non-banking acquiring licenses from the CMF and principal memberships with Visa and Mastercard.

BancoEstado logoBA

Head of Engineering

BancoEstado

Jun 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 9 months)

Scaled Cuenta RUT infrastructure to serve 13M+ active users and process 50M+ transactions monthly. Led a team of 80+ professionals to implement PasajeQR and the digital transformation of Cajavecina.

BancoEstado logoBA

Head of Software & Product Development

BancoEstado

Sep 2019 - May 2021 (1 year 8 months)

Led the modernization of the bank’s Contact Center and core software stacks to improve customer service quality and operational throughput.

BI

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Banchile Inversiones

Jun 2013 - Aug 2019 (6 years 2 months)

Led the implementation team for the Triple A Wealth Suite, managing complex financial software deployments.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Universidad de las Américas logoUA

Universidad de las Américas

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2010 - 2013

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Technology from Universidad de las Américas, Chile, from 2010 to 2013.

Universidad de las Américas logoUA

Universidad de las Américas

Engineer, Computer Engineering

2010 - 2013

Computer Engineering degree from Universidad de las Américas, Chile, from 2010 to 2013.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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