Summary
Juan Montemayor is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience and 14 years in senior software roles, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at HireVue. He specializes in scaling remote-first, distributed teams and unifying platforms post-acquisition while driving innovations in AI-driven assessments, conversational AI, NLP, and live video interviewing. A product-focused manager who learned at MIT (B.S. Management Science with IT option), he prioritizes people and product before technology to deliver highly available, large-scale distributed systems. Juan has a strong startup bent—founding and consulting small SaaS ventures—and repeatedly builds cross-functional teams that ship under tight timelines and regulatory constraints (PCI, SOX, SOC). He’s notable for operationalizing remote engineering processes, championing AWS migrations (Fargate) and EU product launches, and improving onboarding and documentation to sustain rapid growth. Colleagues describe him as calm in chaos, equally comfortable mentoring leaders and rolling up his sleeves to solve complex product and infrastructure problems.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Management Science with Information Technology Option, B.S. Management Science with Information Technology Option at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish