Octavio Centeno

Engineering Tech Lead with 8+ years of experience in banking and fintech environments, currently leading a 12-member engineering team responsible for mission-critical onboarding platforms impacting all new users.

Accountable for technical direction, release governance (2–4 production releases per month), production stability, vendor coordination, and quarterly performance management. Led modernization initiatives including migration of microservices to Java 21 and continuous CI/CD improvements, maintaining zero P0 production incidents.

Strong ability to bridge business and engineering by translating strategic objectives into scalable technical solutions while remaining hands-on in architectural decisions and complex incident resolution.

Tech Lead (Internal) at SPIN FEMSA (2024-01 – Present)

• Lead and mentor a team of 12 engineers within the onboarding domain.
• Own technical roadmap, architecture decisions, and cross-team coordination.
• Migrated and modernized microservices to Java 21.
• Coordinate multiple squads in cross-functional initiatives.
• Manage structured production releases with zero P0 incidents.
• Handle incident response and production support.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD workflows aligned with DevOps standards.
• Conduct quarterly performance reviews and regular 1:1 sessions.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Consistently achieve institutional OKRs (technical & business).

Tech Lead (Assigned to SPIN) at TECH MAHINDRA (2021-01 – 2024-12)

• Led onboarding fintech platform from day one.
• Designed backend solutions using Java, AWS, MongoDB.
• Coordinated backend and frontend (React) teams.
• Participated in architecture decisions and stakeholder alignment.

Backend / Fullstack Engineer (Consulting) at CLAIRVOYANT (2022-01 – 2024-12)

• Developed backend and frontend systems (React).
• Pearson publishing system.
• University digital platform.
• AI-assisted code migration project.
• Worked in distributed international teams.

Backend Developer (via Alliance IT, later direct engagement) at BACKBASE (2021-01 – 2021-12)

• Onboarding banking platform.
• Developed microservices.
• Participated in client-technical conversations.
• Provided backend technical coordination.
• Microservices development in banking environment.
• CI/CD integration.
• Onboarding and mentoring new backend developers.

Backend Developer at GLOBAL HITSS (2020-01 – 2021-12)

Client: USAA

• Java/Spring Boot microservices development.
• Worked in international distributed team (US/India/Mexico).
• Developed REST banking services.

Backend Developer at TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (2019-01 – 2020-12)

Client: Scotiabank

• Onboarding banking project.
• REST APIs and SOAP services.
• Scrum team of 11 members.
• Maintained 85%+ test coverage.

Backend Engineer at Freelance / Consulting (2019-01 – 2022-12)

• Designed and implemented microservices architectures.
• QualityCode project for car rental company.
• Spring Boot + Netflix OSS stack.
• AWS integrations (email, SMS, S3).
• PostgreSQL with Flyway versioning.

Mechatronic Engineering in Mechatronic Engineering – UVM Villahermosa