Ramsey Lubbat

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As a seasoned technology leader, I specialize in transforming product engineering organizations and steering cross-functional teams towards strategic success. My expertise lies in leading diverse, hybrid workforces of various sizes across the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and the EU, aligning with product, analytics, marketing, and other stakeholders to execute strategies effectively. I am recognized for my ability to establish robust processes and best practices in product engineering, resulting in predictable, scalable engineering development velocity. My leadership approach centers on empowering managers and individual contributors, nurturing a culture of trust, open communication, ownership, and accountability. Additionally, I am a skilled senior software engineer. I specialize in backend development, building applications and microservice systems with RESTful APIs that interact with various backend systems like databases, message brokers, and caches. Quality, maintainability, reliability, and scale are paramount concerns for my development work.

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Work Background

Grove CollaborativeVice President Of Engineering

Apr. 2021 - Jan. 2024San Francisco, California, United StatesIn my role as Vice President of Engineering, I led a dynamic and diverse hybrid workforce across the USA, Mexico, Colombia, and the EU, effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams in Product, Analytics, Merchandising, and Marketing. My focus was on planning and executing a forward-thinking direct-to-consumer strategy. I spearheaded a transformation of the product engineering organization, instituting robust processes and best practices that enhanced transparency and led to a predictable, scalable engineering development velocity. Central to my approach was empowering engineering managers and individual contributors, fostering an environment characterized by trust, open communication, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability. Among my key achievements were: - Achieving a 21.4% reduction in non-personnel engineering OPEX from 2022 to 2023, with an additional projected decrease of 10.5% in 2024, by modernizing subsystems, consolidating technologies, and renegotiating service contracts. - Formulating and implementing an anti-fraud policy and team, which reduced the realized fraud impact by 61.4% from 2022 to 2023. - Enhancing the security posture and ensuring SOX compliance in partnership with CFGI, culminating in zero critical or high vulnerabilities by Q4 2023. This role not only allowed me to leverage my strategic and leadership skills but also enabled me to contribute significantly to the company's technological and financial robustness.

PayPalSenior Director Development

Nov. 2015 - Apr. 2021San Francisco Bay AreaIn my role as Sr. Director of Development of Xoom, a division of PayPal, I played a pivotal role in leading the engineering division post-acquisition by PayPal. My responsibilities centered around bridging technology and strategy between Xoom and PayPal, working closely with cross-functional leaders and executives across Product, Finance, Risk, Operations, and Engineering teams. Key accomplishments during my tenure included: - Spearheading the integration of PayPal technology within Xoom and vice versa, ensuring a seamless and effective technological alignment between the two entities. - Overseeing the significant technological migration from traditional data centers to the Google Cloud Platform, enhancing scalability and operational efficiency. - Developing an innovative encryption microservice that significantly reduced the scope of PCI compliance, strengthening the security infrastructure and compliance posture. My leadership in this role was instrumental in advancing Xoom's technological capabilities within the PayPal framework, driving key strategic initiatives, and implementing cutting-edge technology solutions.

Xoom CorporationVice President - Development

May. 2012 - Nov. 2015San Francisco, California, United StatesOversee the entirety of development and QA and reporting directly to the CEO.

Xoom, A PayPal ServiceSenior Director Development

May. 2010 - May. 2012San Francisco, California, United StatesResponsible for all of development and QA and reporting directly to the CEO.

Xoom, A PayPal ServiceSenior Software Engineer

May. 2006 - May. 2010San Francisco, California, United StatesWorked on the digital remittance network, re-architected Xoom from Python to Java with scalable configuration.