Lucas Ospina

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Engineering Manager at América Móvil · Java, A/B testing

América Móvil
Mexico City, Mexico · CST (UTC-6)
11+ years experience
Universidade de São Paulo
English, Spanish
Co-founderOpen to work
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Overview

Currently at América Móvil, where I lead search and ranking with a team of 17. Wrote the GraphQL service that now handles 54 million requests a day. Grew the search team from 5 to 26 engineers.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in search and ranking
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about search and ranking
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers

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Skills
ElasticsearchGraphQLA/B testingScalaJava
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for data labelling for freight forwarders

The idea
Data labelling for freight forwarders
Stage
Idea
I bring
13 years in search and ranking
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Mexico City or remote

I bring 14 years of search and ranking (currently América Móvil). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Mexico City, Mexicoa/b testingjavascala
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Software Engineer in agritech, Mexico City or hybrid

Target roles
Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Developer tools, Consumer apps
Work mode
Remote
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Mexico
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on GraphQL with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

14 years in search and ranking. Strongest at GraphQL and Scala. Can start in about six weeks.

Mexico City, Mexicojavagraphqlelasticsearch
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2023 - Present
    América Móvil · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mexico City, Mexico
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 26% in two quarters.
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 648ms to 125ms.
  2. Software Engineer
    Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
    Ualá · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mexico City, Mexico
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 25% in two quarters.
    • Moved 80% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
    Clip · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mexico City, Mexico
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 27% in two quarters.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Aug 2019
    Embraer · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mexico City, Mexico
    • Led the migration of 25 services to A/B testing.
  5. Software Engineer
    May 2015 - Oct 2016
    Kavak · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mexico City, Mexico
    • Wrote the Scala service that now handles 75 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 16 launches on the search team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Universidade de São Paulo
    Bacharelado, Mathematics
    2007 - 2011

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