Summary
Vicente Manriquez is an engineering manager with 9 years in software, and over 4 years focused on building B2B fintech products at high-growth startups across Chile. He currently leads Procurement at Buk Finanzas, scaling the team from 0 to 4 engineers and shipping purchase order automation while introducing AI-driven development practices to boost productivity. Previously he helped scale payments and wallet systems at Toku and Bemmbo, leading migrations to internal secure-card storage, microservice re-architecture, and payment gateway integrations that improved resilience and observability. Vicente combines hands-on backend and cloud experience (GCP, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Redis, SQL) with recruiting, product-driven technical leadership, and a practical knack for taking features from prototype to acquisition. A former assistant professor, he brings both teaching discipline and startup operator grit to multidisciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Partial Mobility Agreement, Partial Mobility Agreement at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ingeniero Civil Informático, Ingeniero Civil Informático, Ingeniero Civil Informático, Ingeniero Civil Informático at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María