Eduardo Javier Huerta Yero

CTO | Head of Engineering | Startup Founder | ex-Revolut

Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

About

More than 20 years of experience in leadership positions in startups and large multinational companies. Has led engineering teams through 3 digital bank launches in 2 countries in LATAM. Worked extensively with Fortune 500 companies in scoping, designing, implementing and deploying large projects. Expertise in hiring, developing and managing onshore and offshore teams to deliver complex projects. With a Ph.D in Computer Science from one of the leading Brazilian universities, possesses deep technical expertise to drive architectural and technological decisions, and to contribute hands on when needed. Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Academic curriculum - http://lattes.cnpq.br/5317944746623265 Email: [email protected] Tel: +55(19) 991-459-125

Experience

  • Konfío (Remote)
    • CTO
      Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    • Senior Director of Product Engineering
      Aug 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos

      • Leads a team of 60 engineers to develop products for lending, credit cards, and payments for small and medium companies. • Plays critical role in building a bank specifically targeted at small and medium companies. • Achieved record-breaking numbers for lending and credit cards, while increasing engineering output by 100%, reducing support tickets by 40% and incidents by 70%.

  • Head of Engineering for LATAM Expansion at Revolut
    Dec 2022 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Leading engineering work for the expansion of the Revolut to US, Brazil and MX • Hiring, developing and managing several teams of engineers working remotely from AMER and EMEA • Implementing integration of Revolut to local ecosystems in Mexico (SPEI), Brazil (PIX, TED, payment slips) and US (ACH, Open Banking) • Implementing onboarding paths for new users according to regulations of each country

  • Hitachi Vantara (Full-time · 6 yrs 10 mos)
    • Director of Innovation Development Center
      May 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

      • Managing 6 development teams from India and USA around infrastructure automation initiatives at Hitachi Vantara. • Responsible for team building and budget control across the IDC • Hiring 30+ team members, both full-time employees and contractors • Ensuring correct prioritization and roadmapping of work • Ensuring projects are delivered in time, within budget and with the expected quality • Guaranteeing that best in class project management standards are in place to ensure transparent, up-to-date visibility of project status to our customers • Acting as Technical Lead in solution design, tool selection and backlog population and prioritization

    • Digital Solutions Leader - LATAM
      Jun 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs

      • Part of an international team based in the USA dedicated to providing data intelligence services; • Focal point of Hitachi Vantara’s customers for digital services in LATAM; • Responsible for designing, scoping, pricing and executing solutions in a variety of large customers from different segments; • Leader of major migration projects in AMER, EMEA and APAC; • Constant and direct communication with clients in Spanish, English and Portuguese; • Regular visits to clients across LATAM; • Acting as a leader in the development and management of partner companies to execute complex projects; • Technology evangelist for new additions to Hitachi Vantara's portfolio.

    • Senior Solutions Architect
      Mar 2016 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      • Leader in projects to create customized solutions based on Hitachi Vantara products; • Broad and consistent use of Agile Methodologies (Product Owner role); • Responsible for financial control, budgeting, strategic planning, scope, risk analysis, monitoring, reporting and project documentation; • Main Projects: ✓ Compliant Migration Tool: Management and development of a team of 9 engineers working in India to develop a scalable, extensible and secure tool for migrations involving files and objects. ✓ Data center monitoring - Acting as technical leader for a project that collects low-level performance data from various data centers and builds an analytical platform capable of descriptive and predictive analysis; ✓ Automatic provisioning and monitoring tool for a cluster of storage arrays, working as the leader of a team of 3 engineers allocated in India.

  • Professor at Faculdade FACCAMP
    2002 - Dec 2019 · 18 yrs

    Professor and advisor for a strictu sensu Master Degree's course on Computer Science. Areas of interest include high performance computing and Machine Learning.

  • CTO at Tigra Telecom
    2012 - 2018 · 6 yrs

    • Startup that created scalable and low cost communication solutions for companies and ordinary users; • Involves redirecting mobile calls considered "expensive" through lower cost paths; • Mobile apps for Android and Blackberry OS; • Responsible for designing and leading the implementation of both server side (telephony servers, application servers) and mobile applications; • Evangelization, marketing initiatives, presentation and strengthening of the brand in the market; • Responsible for deploying the server side of the application on AWS, including EC2, RDS, VPC, load balancing, Elastic IP management, etc.