Fernanda Romero

Overview

I lead growth engineering at Rivet Health in Lima. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 6. Shipped 16 launches on the growth team without a rollback. Before that: Cencosud and Grupo Bimbo. Most at home with PostgreSQL and analytics. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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Experience

1. CTO

   Apr 2025 - Present
   Rivet Health · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Moved 87% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Wrote the React service that now handles 44 million requests a day.
2. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
   Cencosud · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Grew the growth team from 6 to 26 engineers.
3. Director of Engineering

   Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
   Grupo Bimbo · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 25% in two quarters.
4. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
   PagSeguro · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 12 a week to 1.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2014 - Dec 2015
   Microsoft · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lima, Peru
   • Moved 94% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped 13 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Universidad de Chile

   Ingeniería, Electronics and Communication
   2001 - 2005