Iván Valdés Castillo

Iván Valdés Castillo has a diverse work experience in tech starting as a Web Developer at Grupo Soluciones para la Vida in 2006. Moving on to roles including External Assessor and Web Developer at Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda, CTO & Co-founder at Mohound where they built a remote engineering team, and VP of Technology & Architecture at Aki Technologies where they managed DevOps and IT teams and designed software architecture. Iván also worked at Ooyala as a Senior PSG Engineer and Team Lead. Overall, Iván has shown expertise in architecture design, team management, and project development throughout their career.

Iván Valdés Castillo earned a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Systems Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey in 2008. Iván then completed a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2022. In addition to their formal education, Iván has obtained certifications in Ordered Data Structures, Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++, and Cloud Computing Concepts, Part 1 from Coursera in 2020.