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Federico K

CTO & Technology Advisor | Ex-Amazon | AI & Cloud Strategy

Jurisdiction

Spain

Notable Employer

  • Chief Technology Officer at Aubilities
  • Software Development Manager at Amazon

Experience

Seniority LevelC-Suite
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Chief Technology OfficerNotable
2024 - Present

• Re-engineered infrastructure from unsecured shared hosting to secure AWS environment with VPC design, autoscaling EC2, role-based IAM, and Secrets Manager—establishing enterprise-grade security foundation • Built global engineering team from scratch and implemented CI/CD workflows, development standards, and operational processes • Designed and delivered AubiCoach (AI coaching product): fine-tuned Mistral 13B using AWS SageMaker, deployed inference with vLLM on EC2, integrated OpenAI and Gemini APIs • Architected modernization roadmap transitioning Laravel monolith to distributed system with micro-frontends, microservices, and managed AWS components (Cognito, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB) • Partner with executive leadership to align technical decisions with business objectives and position platform for enterprise scalability

CEO & Co-founder
2023 - 2024

• Designed, built, and launched complete MVP using Flutter with serverless AWS backend, achieving deployment on Apple App Store and Google Play • Integrated real-time geolocation with Google Maps API and dynamic audio triggers for seamless self-guided tour experience • Led all business functions including product design, technical implementation, marketing, partnerships, and investor outreach

Software Development ManagerNotable
2020 - 2023

• Managed 9-person backend engineering team maintaining 99.99% uptime for globally distributed IoT services serving millions of Ring devices • Designed and led core backend systems processing 1M+ requests per minute and 1B+ daily requests, ensuring reliability and scalability • Reduced horizontal scaling requirements by 50% through optimized load balancing and infrastructure redesign • Delivered $2M+ annual cost savings through strategic optimization of DynamoDB, Kafka, and cloud architecture • Mentored engineers and future managers, establishing culture of ownership, quality, and operational excellence

Senior Engineering & QA Leadership Roles
2006 - 2020

• Led QA operations for Disney projects coordinating 24 engineers across 3 Argentina locations with Florida HQ, ensuring quality standards for high-visibility product launches • Built automated testing framework at Avantrip using Cucumber and custom Gherkin- like DSL, establishing foundation for CI/CD adoption • Progressed from QA Engineer to Senior QA to QA Lead to Software Engineer, pioneering early DevOps practices and automated testing pipelines

Skills

Core skills8
Languages2

Skills

Cloud Architecture
AI Architecture
Technical Leadership
Technical Strategy
Scalability
Internet of Things
AWS
Microservices

Languages

English
Spanish

Services