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Sebastian Caceres

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Head of Engineering
Catalonia, Spain

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  • ScorePlay
    Head of Engineering
    ScorePlay
    Mar 2026 - Current (7 months)
  • Gorgias
    Engineering Director: Platform
    Gorgias
    Sep 2024 - Feb 2026 (1 year 6 months)
    - Defined and executed a unified strategic vision for the Platform tribe, aligned with company growth objectives, enabling expansion into the Enterprise market, driving $22.51M in ARR (+31%) and 1,668 net new customers (+11%).
    - Shifted Platform teams to a product-oriented model, introducing discovery, user interviews, feedback loops, release management, and lifecycle ownership, with Engineering treated as a core customer persona.
    - Built and scaled Infrastructure, Reliability, and Security teams, hiring and retaining top-tier talent to support enterprise-grade reliability and compliance.
    - Established a company-wide OKR for quality of service, reducing incident-related support tickets by 43.87% (from 750 in 2024 to 421 in Q4
  • Jump
    CTO
    Jump
    Dec 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 1 month)
    - Built and scaled the Engineering organization from zero to two Application Feature Teams, a dedicated Data team, and Frontend, Backend, Reliability, and Data chapters.
    - Audited production systems, quantified and prioritized technical debt using standardized metrics, aligned remediation with the product roadmap, and defined a long-term technical strategy to successfully deliver both in parallel.
    - Transformed Jump from an early stage startup with crippling technical debt (specially regarding data quality, in a FinTech context) into a sustainable, scalable organization, enabling a successful €11M Series A raise in a challenging early-decade (2020s) market.
    - Led the migration from OVH to AWS with minimal downtime, establishi
  • Amazon Web Services AWS
    DevOps Team Lead
    Amazon Web Services AWS
    Mar 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 10 months)
    - Worked on Amazon Data Firehose and SNS integration.
    - Managed DevOps teams across France and Ireland while leading large-scale cloud transformation programs for AWS customers (EDF, BMW, Fortuneo, Air Liquide, Engie, and other large organizations).
    - Operated with high autonomy across Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, Compliance, and Operations, frequently acting as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders.
    - Led mission-critical migrations to AWS, including core billing, CRM, and customer-facing platforms supporting millions of end users.
    - Designed and delivered automation and governance platforms that reduced environment provisioning time by up to 98%, cut infrastructure costs by 50%, and enabled secure multi-acco
  • Ultra
    Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Ultra
    Sep 2019 - Feb 2020 (6 months)
    - Designed, implemented and ran applications and infrastructure for high traffic Blockchain workloads (NFTs, EOS).
    - Led the Engineering organization (across the Frontend, Backend, Infrastructure, and Data chapters) to achieve higher maturity (Unit Testing, Infrastructure Testing, Infrastructure as Code, Technical Architecture Improvements, Architecture Decision Records, Cost Optimizations).
    - Implemented observability stack for high traffic Blockchain workloads (Prometheus + Thanos).
    - Implemented application monitoring and APM through the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch Kubernetes Operator).
    - Led by example on clean, testable and maintainable code, fixed recurrent production issues and bugs, and prevented outages to incr
  • OCTO Technology
    Senior DevOps consultant & Cloud Architect
    OCTO Technology
    Mar 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 7 months)
    - Led, managed and scaled large, multidisciplinary teams, delivering complex programs across Governance, DevOps culture, automation, infrastructure, software development, and cloud computing for a wide range of business domains, including TF1, Thales, Dassault Aviation, Thales Digital Factory, Service-Public.fr (DILA), CNP Assurances, Colissimo, Digiposte, La Poste, Natixis, AXA, Afrimarket, Société Générale, IPSEN, TEXA Groupe, among others.
    - Architected, built, and operated large-scale event-driven platforms serving tens of thousands of users (~1,000 messages/second), leveraging Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, and Go; ran stateful workloads o
  • OCTO Technology
    DevOps Consultant and Cloud Architect
    OCTO Technology
    Jan 2015 - Mar 2018 (3 years 3 months)
  • dParadig
    Software Engineer
    dParadig
    Jan 2013 - Mar 2013 (3 months)
    - Implemented a proof of concept for a Foursquare-like application for restaurants and customers (B2B and B2C).
    - Android development (Java) for the mobile application, and Ruby on Rails for the API.
    - Created and managed the backend infrastructure on AWS (EC2, SNS, SQS, S3).
    - Test Driven Development, AWS and Android development.
  • Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Assistant Professor
    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Jan 2012 - Aug 2013 (1 year 8 months)
    Part time assistant teacher on Operational Research and Analogue and Digital electronics.
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  • Institut MinesTélécom Business School
    Master of Engineering (M.Eng, International Business
    Institut MinesTélécom Business School
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years 1 month)
    Telecom Bretagne.
  • Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Engineer’s Degree, Telecommunications Engineering
    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2013 (5 years 1 month)
    Recipient of the Distinción Académica ‘Federico Santa María’ Award, given to the best student of Telecommunications Engineering graduated in 2015

    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile.
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  • Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Distinción Académica ‘Federico Santa María’
    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Recipient of the Distinción Académica ‘Federico Santa María’ Award, given to the best student of Telecommunications Engineering graduated in 2015.
  • French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Eiffel Scholarship
    French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Excellence scholarship launched by the French Government to support French centers of higher education in their international outreach initiatives, in a context of mounting competition among developed countries, to attract elite overseas students on master's, engineering and PhD courses.
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    How does it work? Kubernetes: Episode 1 – Kubernetes general architecture
    Jan
    I hacked something together in order to create a Kubernetes cluster on CoreOS (or Container Linux) using Vagrant and Ansible.

    If you keep reading, I’m going to talk to you about Kubernetes, etcd, CoreOS, flannel, Calico, Infrastructure as Code and Ansible testing strategies. It’s gonna be super fun.

    This is episode 1, regarding the Kubernetes general architecture.
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    DockerCon 2016: “Nobody cares about containers!”
    Jun
    We decided to travel more than 8000 km, to Seattle, Washington, in order to go to this year’s DockerCon. So if you’re into containers as well, and you’re dying to hear the hot news, you’ve come to the right place. Fasten your seat belts, and enjoy the ride!
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    fpaste-cli: Share content with magic and style
    May
    I hacked something together in order to highlight text and send it automatically to fpaste, then put the fpaste link in your clipboard automatically.
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