CV Miguel Andres (last updated 2018)

1. MIGUEL ANDRES
Technical Leader /
Software Engineer
 San Francisco, California
 gueles@gmail.com
 www.linkedin.com/in/gueles
 www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~mandres
Leadership
Built multiple strategic business relationships
Own prioritization, road map and vision for
multiple multi-million user products
Consistent record in driving products from idea
to successful commercial launch
Recruited and led high performing teams
Project Management
Led multiple projects involving 50+ people
working across geographies, Orgs and
functions
People Growth
Proud manager and mentor to engineers
and teams
Interviewer, member of hiring committee and
core contributor at recruiting events to acquire
top talent
Research
Distinguished Computer Science researcher
with extensive experience in Computer Security
and System Verification
Technical
Extensive experience designing, building and
maintaining highly scalable and reliable systems
-- have built systems serving 50K+ queries per
second at 99.9+% availability
15+ years of programming experience
PhD in Computer Science
Digital Security group, Radboud University, NL
Master in Computer Science
FaMAF, Córdoba University, Argentina.
Average grade: 8.22 / 10 (top 5out of 269
students)
Bachelors in Computer Science
FaMAF, Córdoba University, Argentina.
Spanish
Native Speaker
English
Fluent
French & Italian
Basic
Highly passionate engineering leader with 15+ years of industry and research
experience, focused on improving people's lives through technology
Led the creation of several successful products with MM+ users from zero to one,
including: identifying first-of-kind opportunities, defining sound and scalable technical
architectures, gaining buy-in from senior leadership and external key partners, and
ultimately building strong engineering teams to design, build, launch and drive growth
Deeply and proudly involved in people growth initiatives including hiring, promoting
and mentoring top engineering talent as well as building strong engineering teams
Oct 2012 -
Present
Member of Technical Staff / Technical Lead
Google Inc
Google Pay Transit - Global Tech Lead
Mission: Enable users to ride public transport anywhere with Google Pay
Created the Transit vertical from idea to commercial implementation with
initial launch partner Las Vegas Monorail, see media coverage
Transit has highest user engagement among all verticals in Google Pay
Defined technical architecture and drove it from idea to launch,
coordinating and leading 50+ people across multiple Orgs and geographies
Established new partnerships with key players in the transit ecosystem
and drove consensus on the integration model & architecture across parties
Google Pay Japan - Tech Lead (previous)
Mission: Enable fast and secure digital payments with Google Pay in Japan
Created and launched Google Pay Japan in 8 months, see media coverage
Japan is the 3rd largest contributor (worldwide) to Google Pay core metrics
Defined technical architecture and drove it from idea to launch,
coordinating and leading 40+ people across multiple Orgs and geographies
Established required partnerships with multiple strategic external partners
Google Pay Innovation - Lead
Bootstrapping new key verticals to enable exponential user growth & engagement
Google Pay Security- Lead
Lead multi-team efforts to make Google Pay the safest digital wallet in the market
Google Auth Service- Tech Lead (previous)
Led a Google critical infrastructure service providing authentication& authorization
access to multiple Google products (including YouTube, Firebase Auth and more)
People Growth Activities
Activities include team building, eng mentorship, promotion (member of promo
committee and clinics) and hiring (committee, interviewing and recruiting events)
Nov 2006 -
Sept 2012
Computer Science Researcher / Computer Security & Verification
Radboud University, Digital Security Group, The Netherlands
Obtained PhD in Computer Science, see PhD Thesis info
Published 12+ scientific articles (~3x more than average)
Ecole Polytechnique, INRIA/CNRS group Comète Group, France
PostDoctoral researcher - Qualcomm grant
Authored paper on mobile geo-location privacy (350+ scientific citations)
20+ scientific publications in internationally recognized conferences and journals
800+ citations and 11+ h-index - see my Google Scholar entry
April 2001 -
Nov 2006
Additional Tech Experience
2004-2006 / Co Founder/ PuntoAr Informatics Solutions
Built a profitable IT company focused on providing core services to SMBs (including
software development, enterprise system setup and administration, etc)
2004-2004 / Software Engineer/ Tarjeta Naranja
Developed payments software for Argentina's leading credit card company
2001-2003 / Software Engineer & IT Support/ Air Force Social Security
Developed software to help employees optimizemultiple daily work tasks
Google Pay Transit Launch Google Pay Japan Launch PhD Dissertation
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