Summary
Carlos Ríos is a payments and production engineering leader with 16 years of hands-on software and infrastructure experience, currently managing Payments and Fraud Prevention at Zebrands while co‑founding and serving as CTO of Upworth. He blends backend development, DevOps, and cloud-native architecture—AWS, EKS, Terraform, Kubernetes—with a strong fintech focus, having built CI/CD pipelines, traffic-scaling strategies for peak commerce events, and payment systems. A self-described generalist, Carlos has moved between roles from bioinformatics and data engineering to senior payments engineering, demonstrating an ability to translate domain complexity into reliable production services. He pairs entrepreneurial drive with practical operational chops, notably reorganizing infrastructure to support rapid growth and high-traffic seasons.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Technical Engineer in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Technical Engineer in Computer Science at Universidad del Bío Bío
English, Spanish