About

Mario Jose Villamizar Cano is an experienced Engineering Manager at Mercado Libre, with a passion for democratizing commerce, money, and payments in Latin America. With over 10 years of experience leading software engineering teams, Mario has enabled companies to offer modern, scalable, and secure digital services to customers, employees, and business partners in an agile, incremental, and reliable way. He has implemented solution architectures to support thousands of concurrent users on different cloud computing solutions, including AWS, Heroku, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Foundry. Mario is also a Professor and Speaker, teaching courses such as "Development of Cloud Solutions" and "Project Integrator - Modality Entrepreneurship" in the Master's in Software Engineering (MISO) of the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He has authored more than 30 international publications on IEEE, ACM, and Springer, showcasing his expertise in the field. Mario's multidisciplinary background includes ideation, design, and development of digital products such as web, mobile, APIs, and integrations. He is skilled in wireframes, user stories, user journeys, user interface (UI), user experience (UX), application development using languages such as Ruby, Java, Python, Scala, and AngularJS, and deployment of highly scalable applications on AWS, Heroku, Salesforce, among others. He is also experienced in application integration (SOA, REST, ESB, Queues, etc.), DevOps, and Continuous Delivery. Mario has worked and led teams in various areas, including as a Postgraduate Teacher at the Computer Science Department of Universidad de los Andes, Cloud Solutions Architect, and Product Manager at the same university. He has a Master's in Systems and Computing Engineering and a Bachelor's in Systems Engineering from Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, respectively. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Salesforce, Web, Mobile, Research Scientist, DevOps, Azure, Integration, UI, product manager, Python, Ruby, Scala, Java, and infra. Overall, Mario is a dynamic, accomplished, and versatile professional with relevant experience of 14.53 years. He is passionate about creating and delivering innovative digital solutions that drive business growth and enhance customer experience.