Oswaldo Alvarez
Co-Founder And CTO at SELLIT9
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolOswaldo Alvarez is a Toronto-based technology leader and serial entrepreneur with 14+ years in software development spanning startups and large-scale enterprise projects. As Co-Founder and CTO of SELLIT9, he is building an end-to-end platform that lets people trade in used tech for same-day cash, with flexible pickup, drop-off, and prepaid shipping across Canada, plus SELLIT9 Pay to enable used-device payments for online stores. He previously led more than 500 engineers as Head of Engineering, Digital Capabilities at Scotiabank, marrying startup agility with the scale and governance of a major financial institution. A four-time founder (one sold, one exited, two failed), he combines grit with a data-driven product and GTM mindset, and has advised high-growth startups like Habi.co ($546M raised) and Littio.co ($4.5M raised). An active educator and host, he runs Coffee Power, the #1 tech leadership podcast in Spanish, and teaches a highly-rated Udemy course on Tech Leadership that has reached over 27,000 students; he studied computer science at Universidad Central de Venezuela and completed Stanford's startup-focused program.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science at Universidad Central de Venezuela
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (50)
web-api10
asp-net-web-api10
twitter-bootstrap10
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blobs9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ozalvarez/thewall9-web
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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ozalvarez/thewall9-CMS
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 193 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years
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