Lucas Alberto Villalba

Engineering Manager at Kilimo

Lucas Alberto Villalba has a diverse work experience spanning from 2010 to 2023. Lucas Alberto started their career as a SAP ABAP Developer at TIVIT in 2010 and then moved on to gA Corporate in 2012, where they worked as a Semi Senior Technical Consultant. At gA Corporate, they progressed to become a Senior Technical Consultant and later a Project Leader, taking responsibility for monitoring key metrics, delivering projects, and conducting performance reviews.

In 2019, Lucas joined Parabolt as an Innovation Lead, where they collaborated with clients to create their own incubator of ideas and foster innovation in their products and services. Later that year, they joined Doppler - Email, Automation & Data Marketing as a Project Manager, where they grew the technology team, coordinated product releases, and trained the development team in adopting an agile mindset.

In 2021, Lucas joined Ualá as a Senior Software Delivery Manager, where they ensured the continuous and frequent delivery of high-quality software. Lucas Alberto monitored delivery progress and quality through various metrics, transformed business strategy into a work plan, and effectively communicated with both upward and downward stakeholders.

Most recently, Lucas is working as an Engineering Manager at Kilimo since 2023.

Lucas Alberto Villalba has a diverse education history. In 2004, they obtained a degree in Técnico en informática Personal y Profesional from Escuela de Educación Técnica Nº3 in Mar del Plata, Pcia. Buenos Aires, with a focus on Informática. From 2007 onwards, they pursued a degree in Ing. en Sistemas from Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, specializing in Ingeniería de sistemas.

In 2015 and 2016, Lucas completed a Diplomatura en Gestión de la Innovación y Negocios Tecnológicos from Facultad de Ciencias Económicas UNICEN. The program focused on Gestion de proyectos de base tecnológica. Later, in 2018, they took a Curso de Arquitectura de Software from Centro de e-Learning UTN FRBA, specializing in Ingeniería de software.

Moving to more recent certifications, Lucas has completed several online courses. In 2019, they finished the course "Go: The Complete Developer's Guide (Golang)" from Udemy. In 2020, they completed "Exploring The Go (golang) Programming Language," also from Udemy. In 2021, they obtained the "Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)" certification from Scrum.org and the "Gestión de deuda técnica" certification from LinkedIn.

In 2022, Lucas completed the course "Fundamentos de Arquitectura de Software" from Platzi. In 2023, they obtained several certifications from Platzi, including "Curso de Go Avanzado: Concurrencia y Patrones de Diseño," "Curso de Unit Testing en Go," "Curso de Go Intermedio: Programación Orientada a Objetos y Concurrencia," "Curso de Go Avanzado: REST y WebSockets," "Curso de Go Avanzado: Protobuffers y gRPC," "Curso de Go Avanzado: Arquitectura de Eventos y CQRS," and "Curso de Prompt Engineering con ChatGPT." Additionally, they obtained the "Green Software for Practitioners LFC131" certification from The Linux Foundation.

Recently, Lucas has been focusing on data and analytics. In 2022, they completed the program "Data Product Management: Data y Analytics" from Centro de e-Learning UTN FRBA. In summary, Lucas's education history highlights their continuous pursuit of knowledge and skills in software engineering, architecture, data analytics, and Go programming.

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  • Engineering Manager

    March, 2023 - present