Summary
Oswaldo Alvarez is a Toronto-based CTO and four-time founder with 11 years of engineering leadership experience and one successful exit. He builds product-first, cloud-native platforms—most recently SELLIT9, a payments and trade-in system that operationalizes same-day device buybacks and end-to-end merchant programs across Canada. Previously he led digital banking engineering for Scotiabank across Colombia and global teams, and founded The Wall9, delivering full-stack apps and AI integrations (GPT-3/4, DALL·E, Vertex AI) into production. Known for combining hands-on coding with strategic scaling, he repeatedly moves ideas from prototype to operational services and also hosts the Coffee Power Podcast to explore tech and startup lessons.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Universidad Central de Venezuela
GETTING FROM AN EARLY IDEA TO A REAL BUSINESS, Startups, GETTING FROM AN EARLY IDEA TO A REAL BUSINESS, Startups at Stanford University
English, Spanish