Saúl Hernández

Engineering leader with 4+ years building and operating software systems in regulated Mexican fintech (Banxico, CNBV). I design the engineering operating model that turns business urgency into predictable delivery: requirements intake, architecture decisions, release cadence, quality standards, and team performance. Hybrid profile spanning fullstack engineering, technical product management, vendor strategy, and compliance (PLD/KYC).

Founder of a sport-tech startup built end-to-end. Looking to keep growing as Tech Lead and ultimately CTO.

Engineering Operations Lead - Yapsi - Guadalajara, México

(2024-01)

Hybrid role designing and implementing the engineering operating system to increase delivery predictability.

• Engineering System: designed and implemented the engineering operating system (Jira workflows, SDLC, prioritization rules, Definition of Done), increasing release cadence 4x (from 2/month to 2/week) while sustaining production stability.
• Product Ownership: own the full software lifecycle for products serving 41,000+ end users (Yapsi 25K, MoSi 16K), coordinating ~$2.4M MXN in annual transaction volume.
• Team Leadership: lead a cross-functional team of 7 engineers (backend, frontend, mobile, QA), defining architecture, methodology and technical direction.
• Compliance & Vendor Strategy: act as de-facto Director of IT — member of the PLD/AML committee, co-led KYC and onboarding implementation, and selected and integrated 8 critical providers (KYC, SPEI, PLD, Black Lists, Remittances, Transmitters, Security, Infrastructure).
• Business Translation: translate business urgency into explicit technical trade-offs, making delivery impact visible to leadership in terms of scope, quality and timeline.
• Strategic Integrations: led commercial-technical integration with BBVA (ATM withdrawal pipeline, in progress), Farmacias Guadalajara (in-store payment, live in stores nationwide) and Anteus (payroll dispersal in production).

Fullstack Software Engineer - Yapsi - Guadalajara, México

(2022-02 - 2024-01)

Built and maintained fullstack fintech applications in a regulated environment.

• built and maintained fullstack fintech applications using Flutter (mobile), NestJS / Node.js (backend), and PostgreSQL.
• designed and deployed internal chatbot, admin systems and payroll dispersal platform from scratch to production.
• automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), testing strategy and technical documentation processes.
• acted as technical counterpart with clients, providers and product stakeholders.

Founder & Technical Director - Whistle Time - Guadalajara, México

(2024-10)

Sport-Tech startup building digital solutions for amateur football league management.

• founded and launched a multi-platform product (mobile, web, smartwatch) to digitize amateur football league management in Mexico; currently in pilot with 3 leagues.
• designed end-to-end architecture and built the full stack with Flutter, Firebase, Firestore, Node.js and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• lead a distributed team and own product, technical, legal, operational and financial decisions.
• negotiated commercial agreements with league directors and referee associations.

Automation Technician (Industrial Internship) - Heineken México - Guadalajara, México

(2020-05 - 2021-09)

Operated and maintained PLC-based production lines; led process improvements with cross-functional teams.

B.S. in Software Engineering - Software Engineering - CETI · ITESO (2021-01 - 2025-12)

T.S.U. in Automatic Control & Instrumentation - Automatic Control & Instrumentation - CETI (2017-01 - 2020-12)