Speaker: Sebastian Barrios
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Senior VP of Technology @Mercado Libre
Sebastian is Mercado Libre's Senior VP of Technology, leading all cross-technology teams including Platform Infrastructure, Services, Architecture, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, SRE, Mobile, Frontend, and UX. A serial entrepreneur turned executive, Sebastian has started and sold multiple companies, the latest being Yaxi, which was acquired by Cabify where he served as CTO for 3 years. He was recognized as the youngest ever Endeavor Entrepreneur at age 22, a record he still holds today. In 2020, he was featured in Forbes' "30 under 30" ranking.
Session
From Hype to Large-Scale Production: How LATAM's Largest Company Leveraged Platform Engineering to Build a GenAI Development Platform for 60K+ Employees
GenAI continues to promise industry transformation, but the challenge now lies in moving from hype to real-world, large-scale, efficient, and productive applications.