Luis Chávez
Head Of Engineering at Fairplay
Mexico City
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Top SchoolLuis Chávez is a Head of Engineering based in Mexico City with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across mobility and fintech. He has led mobile-first initiatives and full-stack integrations at Urbvan, created their iOS app and real-time travel monitoring system, and now drives multidisciplinary projects at Fairplay focused on card systems and automated payments. Comfortable moving between hands-on development and strategic infrastructure decisions, he has overseen cloud migrations between AWS and GCP while optimizing costs and delivery. Known for combining product empathy with operational rigor, he mentors engineers and aligns technical roadmaps to business needs. A UNAM-trained computer engineer, he brings deep mobile expertise coupled with practical fintech integrations that bridge customer-facing apps and third-party services. Notably, he blends real-time systems experience with payments infrastructure—a combination that accelerates time-to-market for financial products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Facultad de Ingeniería de la UNAMUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
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walkthrough9
ancestry9
cosmicmind9
transparency9
snackbar9
swift8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
basdvries/BDVCountryNameAndCode
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Spr-Luis/Sistemas-Operativos
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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