Summary
Manuel Loaiza is a technology leader and founding-team engineer with 10 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale systems from Lima, Peru. He combines deep foundations in algorithms, data structures, and mathematics with hands-on leadership roles across startups and enterprise teams, including founding positions at FromSolvers and a recent tech lead role at Something New. Manuel has shipped production software in diverse domains—from enterprise data management at Autodesk to news personalization at Haystack News—while also teaching and mentoring as an adjunct professor and teaching assistant. Comfortable alternating between individual contributor work and strategic technical leadership, he excels at turning rigorous theoretical insight into pragmatic, scalable implementations. As an independent consultant he continues to apply startup sensibilities to complex engineering problems, often focusing on performance-sensitive architectures not obvious from job titles alone.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering at National University of Engineering
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Spanish, English, Portuguese