Summary
Angel Freire is a seasoned tech entrepreneur and self-taught engineer with 15 years leading product and engineering teams across Latam, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Olipay. He built Olipay’s MVP and core infrastructure from scratch, scaling the platform to over 1.5 million customers and tripling the engineering team in 18 months while integrating diverse BaaS and data providers. Previously he bootstrapped and scaled VazApp to profitability within six months and led large engineering expansions at Real Trends and other startups, bringing hands-on expertise in backend, devops, and analytics. Angel combines product sensibility, sales experience and technical depth—having owned API and microservice strategies, behavioral-data risk models and AI-driven semantics for lending. He’s known for hiring and revamping more than 20 teams across development, infrastructure and operations, and for turning early-stage MVPs into repeatable, scalable businesses. Based in Buenos Aires, he thrives on learning, shipping pragmatic engineering practices, and solving complex integration challenges across the Latam ecosystem.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish, Portuguese