Summary
Ricardo Arellano is a Solutions Software Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable, high-performance banking and payments platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He leads cross-functional teams at Spin by OXXO, driving Banking-as-a-Service, payments, fraud, reconciliation and core banking integrations while balancing security, compliance and operational resilience. His background spans microservices, serverless, event-driven and real-time architectures, with deep practical knowledge of AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes/OpenShift and CI/CD ecosystems. Ricardo pairs formal training—a Master in Cloud Computing and a Telematics Engineer degree—with proven delivery at banks and large enterprises, often directing teams of 15–50 engineers. He’s known for optimizing throughput and cost (low CPU/memory footprints) and for bridging product, security and platform concerns to turn complex regulatory requirements into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
Master in Cloud Computing and Automation of Software Processes Cloud Computing, Master in Cloud Computing and Automation of Software Processes Cloud Computing at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Spanish, English