Agustina Romero

Overview

Engineering Manager at Arcadia Financial, focused on developer tools. Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 13 a week to 2. Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with Rust and Jetpack Compose. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2023 - Present
   Arcadia Financial · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
   • Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 68% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 10 million requests a day.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
   Globant · 2 yr · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
   • Led the migration of 28 services to CLI design.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
   Bancolombia · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Montevideo, Uruguay
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 29 a week to 1.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
   Accenture · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
   • Shipped 25 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
5. Software Engineer

   Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
   Cencosud · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 31% in two quarters.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 638ms to 141ms.

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Education

1. Universidad de Chile

   Ingeniería, Computer Science
   2009 - 2013