Sergio Tapia

Director of Engineering

Papa•  July 2019 - Present

Leading engineering teams and executing vision and strategic roadmap planning. Lead engineering teams from seed round, all the way up to Series B rounds. I've scaled up engineering teams from fully outsourced to bring talent in-house. Born in Boston, grew up in Bolivia, now back in the States. I lead by example, and give my team the authority and safety to execute by doing what's best for the company. I don't hold hands, and I don't dictate minutiae. Proven experience in architecture and design. I mentor younger candidates to promote from within. I set the tone for culture and practices within a company, including internal talks, company blog posts, inter-team knowledge sharing. Pragmatic: What can we do today to solve the issue now and keep the door open for changes in the next six months? Worked with many languages, more recently: Elixir, Typescript and Nim. Before: Rails, C#, Go, Python