πŸ‘‹πŸ½ Hey There!

I'm Marvin

I lead and manage Growth and Payments teams, promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices, advise start-ups, and formerly built software to support various backend systems (event pipelines, communication platforms, payments, experimentation, and data warehousing).

I'm currently an Engineering Manager at Webflow, leading the Growth team. Previously, I've led teams at Fast, Quibi, GoFundMe, and worked at other early-stage start-ups.

I'm a proud immigrant (born and raised in Peru πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ͺ), first generation college grad (MIT 🦫), coffee addict β˜•οΈ, and salsa/reggaeton/hip-hop head 🎧.
Marvin with his dog, Xena, and glass of wine
Engineering Leader

Experience

Webflow
Sep 2021
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Present
Senior Engineering Manager, Growth

I'm currently the Engineering Manager for the Growth team at Webflow. Our mission is to enable everyone to create for the web, and we are building the world's most powerful visual development platform. On the Growth team, we focus on helping our users to discover and experience the full value of Webflow at every step of their journey.

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Our team is growing!Β Please apply to roles here.

DocSpace
Jun 2021
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Present
Advisor / Angel Investor

I've had the pleasure of working with the DocSpace team early on and helping them with few different aspects as they got their product launched:

  • Structuring the Engineering team
  • Best practices for managing roadmap
  • Architecture decisions with regards to payments and event driven infrastructure
  • Evaluating third-party vendors
Fast
Nov 2020
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August 2021
Present
Engineering Manager, Events & Communications

Managed the Events & Communications team which works on technologies to improve and scale data processing:

  • Event pipeline to deliver structured information to our data warehouse for analysis
  • Centralized communications service that is driven from message-bus to better manage emails/sms/native notifications
  • Internal tools to empower partners to use data and also update communications with ease
  • Scalable delivery of events for our partners

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Quibi
Mar 2019
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December 2020
Present
Engineering Manager, Commerce
  • Designed and developed architecture for subscription processing services
  • Established Commerce Engineering team and recruited engineers to Quibi
  • Managed T-Mobile engineering relationship
  • Responsible for services supporting subscription billing systems
  • Laid out an on-call schedule and enabled an incident response process
  • Worked with leadership to outline requirements, necessary resources, and timelines for projects
  • Delivered Customer Support portal to manage ~300 calls/day into our help center by providing tools to investigate subscription issues and address customer concerns
  • Delivered Experimentation Framework to validate Growth potential of subscriptions model
GoFundMe
Feb 2018
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March 2019
Present
Staff Engineer / Tech Lead, Payments
  • Revamped payments processing services to deliver a unified experience across GoFundMe products reducing redundancy by a factor of two and decoupling from payment provider to facilitate transition to use other providers
  • Delivered Charity Search service that reduced search time 20x (3s to <150ms), decoupled search from an external provider, and added full-text search
  • Responsible for onboarding 2 engineers and mentoring as they ramped up their contributions to the payments systems
  • Delivered revamped infrastructure cookbooks (terraform + ansible) and simplified continuous delivery for payments services
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