Speaker: Sebastian Barrios

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VP of Technology @Mercado Libre

Sebastian is Mercado Libre’s VP of Technology. He leads all cross-technology teams such as Platform Infrastructure, Services, Architecture, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, SRE, Mobile, Frontend, and UX. As a serial entrepreneur turned executive, Sebastian started and sold multiple companies, the latest being Yaxi, which was acquired by Cabify, where Sebastian served as CTO for 3 years. He was recognized as the youngest ever Endeavor Entrepreneur (he was 22 at the time). A record he still holds today. In 2020 he was recognized on the Forbes “30 under 30” ranking. He graduated with honors with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónoma de México)