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Hi, I'm Fabricio.
Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager and full-stack engineer with 13+ years across AWS cloud architecture, backend & frontend development, and interactive experiences. I coach teams, design resilient systems, and ship things that work under pressure.

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About

Two tracks, one practice.

I'm a Senior Engineering Manager at TreviPay working on B2B fintech, and a full-stack engineer with an AWS Solutions Architect mindset. Cloud-native architecture, event-driven systems, Terraform-as-code, and the kind of operational discipline that only comes from years of on-call rotations.

In parallel, I run VA Media — a freelance practice building interactive "phygital" activations for BTL agencies, shopping centers, and consumer brands. Touch displays, photo booths with AR, QR check-ins, digital raffles. The same engineering rigor applied to systems that have to work flawlessly in front of a live crowd.

What I care about: growing engineers through coaching and clear feedback, building systems that stay reliable under pressure, and translating technical tradeoffs so any stakeholder can make a good decision.

13+
Years in the industry
AWS
Solutions Architect discipline
Full-stack
Backend, frontend, infra
Manager
People, delivery, ops excellence
Experience

A timeline in two tracks.

Both careers ran in parallel. Use the filter to see them separately, or together as they happened.

Apr 2025 — Present Corporate

Manager, Software Engineering

TreviPay · B2B enterprise credit platform
  • People leadership: weekly 1:1s, quarterly development plans, continuous feedback, and career coaching.
  • Delivery governance: quarterly OKRs, staging validation, production change discipline, stakeholder communication.
  • Operational excellence: proactive monitoring, incident management discipline, postmortems, tech-debt prioritization.
  • Architectural guidance across product areas; translate technical tradeoffs for cross-functional stakeholders.
2012 — Present Freelance

Founder & Technical Director

VA Media · Interactive activations for BTL agencies & brands
  • Founder and technical director of VA Media — interactive activations for agencies, brands, and shopping centers.
  • End-to-end delivery: client discovery, solution design, UX for high-traffic environments, live execution, and reporting.
  • Core capabilities: BTL games & wheels, AR photo booths, QR registration and digital raffles, kitchen-screen staff flows.
  • Full-stack: Vue.js/Quasar frontend, Node.js/TypeScript backend, auditable data exports, on-premise + cloud deployment.
Apr 2023 — Mar 2025 Corporate

Team Lead, Software Engineering

TreviPay
  • Entry-level people manager during organizational transitions. Maintained delivery continuity.
  • Sprint / kanban health, effective standups, prioritization, definition-of-done discipline.
  • Coached engineers and provided architectural direction across multiple product areas.
  • Outcomes: team stability through reorg, predictable delivery, cross-functional alignment.
Oct 2022 — Mar 2023 Corporate

Principal Engineer / Architect I

TreviPay
  • Recognized for delivering the cloud-native platform from concept to production scale.
  • Cross-team architecture reviews; translated complex tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Mentored engineers and elevated standards through reusable patterns.
Apr 2021 — Sep 2022 Corporate

Technical Team Lead

TreviPay · Greenfield AWS-native platform
  • Technical lead for a greenfield platform: engineering approach, production readiness, and scaling strategy.
  • Designed AWS-native architecture with event-driven decoupling to protect core flows under load.
  • Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform; observability, alerting, and error-budget practices.
  • Weekly release cadence with progressive rollout and production hardening.
Aug 2019 — Oct 2022 Corporate

Software Engineer III & II

TreviPay
  • Backend engineer on greenfield AWS-native initiative.
  • Delivered complex features, operational hardening, and performance improvements.
  • Event-driven / serverless patterns, API design, batch processing, observability.
2012 — 2019 Freelance

Software Developer & Interactive Experiences Engineer

Motionad / Freelance
  • Built interactive digital experiences for touch displays and event activations.
  • UX-driven frontend + operational back-office (data capture, registration, lead management).
  • Interactive catalogs, registration flows, games, QR check-ins, controlled raffles.
  • On-site execution and live troubleshooting.
Skills

Tools & disciplines.

A blend of leadership, cloud architecture, backend engineering, and interactive UX — sharpened across thirteen years.

Leadership & Delivery

People management OKRs & roadmaps Sprint / Kanban Incident discipline Coaching & 1:1s Postmortems Executive comms

Architecture & Cloud

AWS Solutions Architect Terraform (IaC) Kubernetes / EKS Serverless (Lambda, SQS, SNS) Event-driven systems Observability & alerting Error budgets & SLOs Legacy modernization Security & dependency hygiene

Backend & Data

Node.js / TypeScript Ruby on Rails Perl PostgreSQL Oracle / PLSQL REST APIs Batch processing Performance tuning

Frontend & Interactive UX

Vue.js / Quasar Touch displays Digital signage (DSCE) AR photo booths QR flows Kitchen-screen UX High-traffic UX Responsive design

Operations & Live Events

Discovery & consulting On-site execution Staff training Real-time troubleshooting Inventory & prize control Data export & reporting Campaign analytics
Representative cases

Built, shipped, measured.

Four VA Media deliveries — each one a system that had to work flawlessly in front of a live crowd.

Wheel with prize control

High-traffic BTL activation with auditable inventory. UX optimized for a live queue, configurable back-office for prizes, clean data exports.

UX for high-traffic · auditable inventory

AR photo booth

Shareable content for a brand event. Short vertical touch flow, automatic email/WhatsApp delivery, branded template.

AR · automated delivery · branded capture

Holiday gift drive-thru

Retail experience with gift selection and wrapping. Customer screen + "kitchen screen" for staff, dynamic inventory, prioritized queues.

Dual-screen UX · staff workflow design

Digital check-in & raffle

QR check-in and controlled raffle flow for fairs and conferences. Quick registration, inventory control, per-booth reporting.

QR flows · per-booth reporting
Education & Languages

Self-taught foundations.

Systems Engineering / Computer Science

Self-directed learning across cloud architecture, observability, and technical leadership. Continuous practice over 13+ years of production systems.

Languages

Spanish Native
English Fluent
Get in touch

Let's talk.

Whether you're hiring for a leadership role, planning a BTL activation, or just curious — I read every message. Expect a reply within one or two business days.

Email contacto@fabriciovillegas.com → LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/fabriciovillegas → GitHub github.com/fabriciovillegas → Freelance practice vamedia.net →