Summary
Michel Olvera is a Lead Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native backend systems across fintech and enterprise platforms. He blends hands-on engineering in Python, Java, .NET Core and Go with strong team leadership and agile delivery, having driven payment features at PayPal/Venmo and led backend teams at GBM. Deeply experienced in multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, serverless patterns and observability, he routinely designs resilient microservices using Kafka, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB and MySQL. Known for pairing infrastructure-as-code with CI/CD pipelines, he moves rapidly from design to production while keeping reliability metrics front and center. Based in Mexico City, he combines a pragmatic, product-focused mindset with a passion for continuous learning and an ambition to "change the world one line at a time." A less obvious strength is his history of owning cross-functional delivery as DRI, which sharpens his ability to unblock teams and maintain healthy backlogs.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero IngenierÃa de sistemas, Ingeniero IngenierÃa de sistemas at Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia