Ricardo Tapia
CTO at PayScan
Chile
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRicardo Tapia is a seasoned CTO and technology executive with over 15 years leading multidisciplinary engineering, SRE, DevOps and operational continuity teams in mission-critical 24/7 environments across fintech and financial services. He has driven large-scale platform modernizations, observability and automation programs that reduced incidents and MTTR, improved resilience through hundreds of automated DRP exercises, and delivered measurable cost and efficiency gains. Ricardo combines hands-on payments and transactional systems expertise (PCI, EMV, ISO8583, HSM) with strategic leadership—having managed thousands of servers and directed cross-functional roadmaps involving Risk, Cybersecurity and Business. Notably, he has scaled platforms to hundreds of thousands of active users while executing zero-downtime deployment and migration projects that preserved service availability. Based in Chile, he pairs top-tier academic training with a track record of translating complex regulatory and operational requirements into robust, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Civil Electricista, Titulado con distinción máxima. 6.1/7., Ingeniero Civil Electricista, Titulado con distinción máxima. 6.1/7. at Universidad de ChileColegio The Garden School
English
Github Skills (5)
api8
monitors2
datadog1
dedicated1
terraform1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
ricmunozt/API-Multicaja_digital
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
Multicaja/api
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Especificación de la API de Multicaja
Contributions:44 commits, 19 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 2 months
apimulticaja
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