Engineering manager with 20 years across Latin America, Europe, and the US. I’ve built search and recommendation systems, run a startup as CTO, and now lead data platform strategy at Spotify. I drive technical strategy at the organizational level while staying hands-on enough to ship production systems alongside my teams. Currently focused on where AI intersects with platform engineering at scale.
New York, NY · lcguerrerocovo@gmail.com · LinkedIn · GitHub
Experience
Eight years across three areas (fraud detection, data insights, and data infrastructure), managing multiple teams simultaneously, leading cross-org strategy, and consistently contributing hands-on technical work alongside the management role.
Highlights include owning the multi-year strategy for Spotify’s data processing platform migration, work that drove significant cloud cost savings and directly influenced infrastructure contract negotiations. More recently, leading cross-platform data reliability strategy and leveraging AI to tackle platform-scale engineering challenges.
I’ve grown engineers into senior and staff roles, turned around underperforming teams, and consistently built high-trust engineering cultures while also driving strategy alignment, org health, and ways of working across teams.
Built the technology foundation for an early-stage analytics database startup serving ad tech and e-commerce. Owned architecture, engineering, and product direction from prototype through market readiness.
Engineering Manager (2015-2017): Led teams building recommendation engines and the analytics platform for Brazil’s largest real estate marketplace. Promoted during a period of rapid company growth.
Senior Engineer (2013-2015): Built search relevance and recommendation systems using machine learning and large-scale data processing. Directly improved how millions of users discovered properties.
Backend engineer on the MoneyGram money transfer platform. Also prototyped analytical models as a data scientist, work that helped win new client engagements.
Web development, backend systems, and Linux administration for government and private sector clients.
Personal Projects
aoe2.site
Match history and player stats site for Age of Empires II. Search players, browse match details, and track performance over time.
Tech Stack: React, TypeScript, Google Cloud Functions, Firestore, Meilisearch
Education
University of Florida · M.S., Computer Engineering (2008-2010)
University of Miami · B.S., Information Technology (1999-2003)
Languages
English • Portuguese • Spanish (Native/Bilingual)
Certifications
Functional Program Design in Scala • Java SE6 Certified Developer • Functional Programming Principles in Scala