Jaime Rodas

VP of Engineering & Mexico Site Lead

Changeorg

May 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)

Created and run the Mexico Engineering Hub for Change.org

Chief Operating Officer

Vest Inc

Jan 2021 - Dec 2023 (3 years)

- Planned and executed the legal and operational strategy to be able to market US-based securities to investors all over LATAM. This included getting a US Broker-Dealer License, a US Investment Advisor License, and a Mexican Investment Advisor License in about a year. - Planned and executed the legal and operational strategy to be able to move money from Mexico to the US and back almost instantaneously while offering a great FX rate. This included getting 2 US State Money Transmitter licenses and negotiating with banks in order to facilitate the transfer. Once that was done, I coordinated with the engineering team in order to fully automate the process. - Led the way for the completion of a broker-dealer acquisition, a brokerage book acquis

Lead Product & Engineering Manager, LATAM

Hum Capital

Nov 2019 - Jan 2021 (1 year 3 months)

- Led the engineering team responsible for the client-facing application. This wonderful group of people built a world-class financial insights app that allows companies to sign up and quickly get access to our own investment strategy as well as that of more than one hundred of our partners. - Helped shape what our product is about. Through lots of conversations with our own executive team, as well as investors and companies, I've made lots of plans (and implemented them!) about where the product should go and how it can be monetized. - Set up all the infrastructure needed for recruiting engineering talent in Mexico and all of LATAM. This included figuring out how to set up operations in Mexico City via a subsidiary, establishing a recruiti

CEO - Enconta

Resuelve tu Deuda

Jan 2019 - Nov 2019 (11 months)

After years of being the engineering lead for the Enconta project, I was offered the chance to be one of two Co CEOs of the project with the idea of spinning it out from Resuelve. Along with my business partner, we dedicated almost a year's worth of work to streamlining processes, improving KPIs and setting up the legal framework to split off from the group. Talked to dozens of investors about investing in the project and had quite a few of them interested, but had to pull away from the company after 11 months because of unforeseen circumstances.

Senior Product Owner

Resuelve tu Deuda

Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 (5 months)

I was put in charge of building a custom sales CRM and transitioning out of Salesforce. Had about 10 engineers working on all this and we successfully executed the transition in record time.

Product Owner

Resuelve tu Deuda

Jan 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 8 months)

Led and trained team of 6 engineers working on an online accountant software for SMB's in Mexico. Learned how to quickly adapt to an ever-changing set of requirements set forward by the government and our vision for the product. Besides these day to day duties, I designed the Resuelve engineering hiring process in order to hire engineers for other Resuelve teams, growing from a team of 20 to more than 50 in two different countries.

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Lead Developer

Winback

Feb 2016 - Dec 2016 (11 months)

Developed the MVP, adapted it as the business's necessities grew and changed. Eventually vetted and trained more developers to help out.

Partner

Partido Surrealista Mexicano

Apr 2010 - Jan 2016 (5 years 10 months)

Started a two–person, full-stack development shop with clients big and small, from nationally-syndicated newspapers, to museums and law firms. We specialize in making web-based applications, but have also made interactive displays, iOS apps, and even hardware.

Intern

Tecnologico de Monterrey

Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 (1 year 1 month)

Developed systems and portals based on web technologies for several departments within the Student Affairs Division of Campus Monterrey

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