Gustavo Franco
Gustavo Franco
Sr. Engineering Director @ VTEX
 
 

About ME

 

Iā€™m currently a Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA and we are hiring.

  • 24 years of experience in the tech industry.

  • 11 total as a manager (various seniority levels up to Senior Director).

  • For the past seven years, I have often represented the companies I work for to our customers and in external events. In the past three years, I have occasionally played both a field CTO and field CISO role while internally directing senior leaders and directors of product engineering, corporate engineering/IT, production/SRE, security, and data.

    Specialties:

    • Reliability engineering.

    • PriSec (incl. identity + privacy controls).

    • Multi-tenant SaaS/IaaS/BaaS/BMaaS for AI/ML.

    Main areas of interest:

    • Development of sustainable KPI-driven and charter-based organizations.

    • Adding engineering & data science to FinOps with an emphasis on efficient growth on public clouds in partnership with finance.

    • Coaching leaders on how to properly and scalably partner with sales, marketing, compliance, legal, and vendors to increase our impact.

    Main career accomplishments so far:

    • Google Compute Engine launch and the journey to take it to general availability;

    • Google Incident Lifecycle Management program and its associated impact;

    • VTEX N% gross margin yield via efficiency improvements, tech-wide reorg, sales motions involvement, and product launches.

    Max org size so far: 120.