Luis Saffie
Co-Founder & CEO at Saffie Ventures Inc
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLuis Saffie is a hands-on engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience embedding as contract CTO/VP to get growth-stage engineering teams shipping reliably and scaling sustainably. He has led teams at Amazon, Wealthsimple, and HomeStars (through acquisition), and has co-founded multiple startups, so he speaks both founders’ language and enterprise-scale execution. Luis specializes in diagnosing and fixing chronic delivery problems—technical debt, misalignment, and runaway infrastructure costs—working in 3-month sprints where he writes code, reorganizes teams, and measures real impact. He brings practical AI experience in production (not demos), integrating models into workflows like code review, testing, and deployment to produce measurable gains. Past achievements include scaling organizations from dozens to 100+ engineers, halving bug rates through QA/SRE programs, and cutting onboarding time from months to weeks. Based in Toronto, he offers interim executive leadership that blends startup urgency with proven large-scale operational rigor.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidad Andres BelloBA Arts, Information Technology, BA Arts, Information Technology at York UniversityFoundations of Data Science, Foundations of Data Science at Udemy Academy
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Github Skills (28)
application-management10
window-management10
user-friendly9
aero9
heading8
linux7
location-based7
location7
e-mail6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
gsub6
vim6
menu6
geocoding6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lsaffie/vimfiles
Jul 2012 - Apr 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 14 pushes in 6 years 10 months
lsaffie/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:55 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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