MARCO ALVAREZ

AI Product Engineer

+52 55 2804 2599marco.alvarez790@gmail.comPortfolioLinkedInMexico City

Summary

12+ years of 0→1 across fintech, credit, and marketplaces. Software engineer turned 3x Founding PM, now combining product depth with hands-on AI engineering. Currently Founding PM at Lendable launching Lenda's credit card in Mexico. Running OriginLabs as an AI-native product lab.

Experience

Founding PM & Product Engineer

Lenda (by Lendable)2026 – Present · Mexico City · Hybrid
  • •Founding PM for Lenda's credit card launch in Mexico, owning strategy, roadmap, and execution end-to-end with a deliberately lean team.
  • •Extended the role into Product Engineering: built 30+ Claude Code skills for fraud investigation, statement generation, customer support, and card ops.
  • •Treats product as a system: architected a shared second brain turning every repeatable process into a reusable tool and evolving the squad into an AI-first operating model.

Founding PM → Head of Product

Kontempo.io (Credit Platform for B2B)2021 – 2025 · Mexico City · Hybrid
  • •First employee; shipped the full platform from 0 in under 90 days (credit risk engine, merchant dashboard, and checkout), contributing to a $30M seed round.
  • •Post-launch, led continuous optimization across the full product: underwriting engine, buyer conversion, and recurrency through loyalty programs, onboarding, and dashboard improvements.
  • •Grew to Head of Product and scaled the org from solo PM to multi-squad.

Sr Technical Product Lead

Stori (Credit Card & Savings Account)2024 · Mexico City · Hybrid
  • •Led a 3-month rebuild of login and digital signature components, improving security posture, UX, and internal observability for Stori's credit card app.

Product Lead

Centeo (Lending as a Service)2020 – 2021 · Mexico City · Remote
  • •Joined as first employee; built Centeo's lending platform from 0 (onboarding, KYC, credit risk model, payouts, collections, and credit bureau reporting) and closed integrations with two of Mexico's largest mPOS providers.

Product Manager, Advertising

Schibsted Media Group (B2C Marketplace)2017 – 2018 · Remote
  • •Rolled out a digital advertising platform across 7 markets: UK, Finland, Tunisia, Mexico, Belarus, Morocco, and Dominican Republic.

Android Engineer → Head of Product

Segundamano.mx (B2C Marketplace)2015 – 2020 · Mexico City
  • •Grew from Android Engineer to Head of Product over 5 years: shipped the Android app (Google Best App Mexico 2015), launched fraud detection (−40% chargebacks) and ML recommendations (3× conversion lift), and led a team of 5 shipping the public developer API.

Co-founder & CTO

ILLUTIO (Augmented Reality Tech startup)2013 – 2015 · UK
  • •Built an augmented reality system from scratch; raised £24,000 seed and secured a 1-year incubation in the UK.

Education

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Business Applications

Texas McCombs School of Business

2026 · Hybrid

Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer

Stanford University

2023 · California, USA

Fintech / Minor

ITAM

2022 · Mexico City

Ley Fintech / Minor

Universidad Anáhuac México

2022 · Mexico City

Software Engineering / Study Abroad

Jönköping University

2012 · Sweden

Mechatronics / Bachelor's Degree

Tecnológico de Monterrey

2008 – 2013 · Mexico

Courses & Certifications

Growth Product Manager

Nanodegree program – Udacity

Product Academy Program

Adevinta – Barcelona

Agile for Product Managers and Product Owners

280 Group, AIPMM – New York City

Side Projects

OriginLabs.pro

AI-native lab. A lean group of Product Engineers leveraging AI to go from real problems to live products, fast.

Skills

AI Engineering

Claude Codev0CursorClaude APIOpenAI APIPrompt EngineeringVibe coding

Product

0→1 Product ManagementDiscoveryPrioritizationProduct RoadmapAgileStakeholder ManagementPLGJIRA

Tech

Next.jsTypeScriptSQLReact