ezequiel mina · cdmx 🇲🇽 & bsas 🇦🇷

20 years building infra.
7M+ users to show for it.

VP of Technology at Ualá México. Started in pentesting, moved to DevOps, joined Ualá on day one, and scaled it from a 6-month sprint to a regulated multi-country fintech serving 7M+ users on 200+ AWS accounts. Now deploying AI agents in production.

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A bit about me

Zeke Argentine engineer based in Ciudad de México. Two decades in infrastructure and security; lately deep into AI agents. Easier to find at a terminal than at a conference. Ezequiel Mina
Currently VP of Technology at Ualá México — leading Technology, Operations, and Security for the Mexican business. Currently driving the on-premise → AWS migration of the Mexican platform inside a regulated banking perimeter.
Origin story Joined Ualá on day one (Nov 2016) as Manager of Cloud Infrastructure and built the entire platform from scratch — the first large-scale serverless architecture deployed in Argentina, live in 6 months. Nearly 10 years later, that foundation runs 7M+ users across Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico on 200+ AWS accounts and 9,500+ Lambda functions.
Background Started as a pentester at Cybsec (2006), moved through EY, the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and 5 years as DevOps Engineer at Globant before betting everything on a fintech startup that was just a PowerPoint.
What I care about Infrastructure that scales without heroics. Security built in, not bolted on. Teams that can ship fast and sleep well at night.
Lately Going deep on AI and agents — building voice agents, automation pipelines, and exploring how LLMs reshape engineering workflows. The domain name is a nod to it: Nina the Lab. 🐾
Nina Proud dad of Nina, an 11-year-old chocolate labrador — co-pilot for long coding nights and the inspiration behind ninathelab.com. Nina
Languages Spanish (native) · English (full professional)

Where I've shipped things

Ualá 9 yrs 7 mos · Nov 2016 — Present
VP of Technology, México
Mar 2022 — Present
Ciudad de México

Leading all technology for Ualá's Mexican operation — engineering, architecture, and execution. Took the local platform from on-premise to AWS, lifting the infrastructure quality bar to the same standard as the rest of the group while keeping a regulated bank running. Responsible for growing the product and team in a new market.

Cloud Migration (on-prem → AWS) Regulated Environment Engineering Leadership Product Strategy Team Scaling Fintech
Head of Technology
Jul 2021 — Mar 2022
Argentina

Owning the full infrastructure estate as Ualá expanded across Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. Scale on the wire: 200+ AWS accounts, 9,500+ Lambda functions, 7M+ users across 3 countries — all of it inside a financial-services regulated perimeter (Banxico, BCRA, SuperFinanciera). Balanced reliability, delivery speed, and a security posture that actually holds up against regulators.

200+ AWS Accounts 9,500+ Lambdas 7M+ Users · 3 Countries Regulated Fintech AWS GCP Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Observability
Manager of Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 2016 — Aug 2021
Argentina

Day one. Designed and implemented Ualá's entire platform architecture from scratch — shipped to production in 6 months. The first large-scale serverless architecture deployed in Argentina, built on AWS Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB before serverless-first was the default playbook in the region. Cloud on AWS & GCP, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD (Jenkins, AWS Code Tools), and the data layer (RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL). The foundation everything else was built on.

First Large-Scale Serverless in Argentina 0-to-1 Architecture AWS GCP Lambda + API Gateway Terraform Jenkins PostgreSQL DynamoDB Linux
DevOps Engineer
Globant
Oct 2011 — Oct 2016
Buenos Aires · 5 yrs

Designing, building, and scaling infrastructure solutions for enterprise clients like Scripps Networks, Southwest Airlines, and WPP. Built monitoring systems, troubleshot production issues, and brought an infosec lens to every infrastructure decision — a combo that was rare at the time and turned out to be exactly what a fintech startup needed in 2016.

DevOps Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Linux
IT Security Coordinator
Cancillería Argentina · Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Jan 2009 — Dec 2009
Buenos Aires

First time owning a security program rather than just executing on it. Covered the full spectrum — pentesting, server hardening, IDS and firewall deployment, and ongoing audits across servers and workstations. The role where defensive and offensive security clicked together as two sides of the same problem.

Penetration Testing Firewalls IDS Server Admin IT Audits
Security Consultant
Ernst & Young
Jul 2008 — Dec 2008
Buenos Aires · 6 mos

SAP security research for the AySA project, IT auditing for Warner Music, and development of security standards and checklists. First exposure to how large organisations think about (and budget for) security.

SAP Security IT Audit Security Standards
Security Consultant
Cybsec S.A.
Sep 2006 — Jul 2008
Buenos Aires · 1 yr 11 mos

Where it all started. Network, web app, and wireless penetration testing. Security standards & checklists, hardening of critical systems, vulnerability management, firewall implementation. The kind of work that teaches you how things actually break — invaluable for building things that don't.

Penetration Testing Network Security Web App Security Wireless Hardening Firewalls

Things I've built on the side

Autek AI

AI Regulatory Audit Platform

LangGraph RAG Qdrant FastAPI Next.js 15 PostgreSQL Terraform SSH Agent

AI-powered regulatory audit platform for Mexican financial institutions — SPEI/Banxico, PCI DSS, and custom frameworks. Includes a RAG chatbot over the regulatory corpus with citations, an auto-evaluation agent that reads evidence and proposes COMPLIANT/NON_COMPLIANT verdicts, and an SSH agent that connects to servers, network devices, and Kubernetes clusters to collect technical evidence automatically. Multi-team RBAC, evidence storage on S3.

Karla — AI Voice Agent

Voice AI for a Mexican logistics company

Claude Haiku 4.5 Deepgram Nova-2 ElevenLabs Flash RingCentral FastAPI Tool Use FSM in Redis

Production AI voice agent that calls (and receives calls from) truck drivers in colloquial Mexican Spanish to validate cargo trip data — confirming, updating, or registering trips via tool calls, and warm-transferring to a human at any point. Designed end-to-end: STT/LLM/TTS pipeline tuned to under 1.5s, FSM in Redis so calls survive worker restarts, and tool-arg pinning server-side to block prompt-injection of mutations. Built to scale to 200K calls/month at ~$0.020/call.

Clawdia & openclaw

Self-hosted Personal AI Infrastructure

openclaw PGLite + pgvector Hybrid Search (RRF) MCP Kamailio SIP rtpengine ElevenLabs CAI Tailscale GLM / Claude / Gemini

A self-hosted personal AI stack on a single Hetzner VPS (~€15-25/month). A custom multi-agent gateway (openclaw) with per-workspace isolation, a pgvector-backed knowledge brain (gbrain) with hybrid RRF search and a nightly dream cycle that distills transcripts into structured pages, scheduled agent turns, and inbound voice calls — pick up the phone, dial Clawdia, talk to her like a normal call (SIP via Kamailio + rtpengine to ElevenLabs).

Timba 2027

Autonomous Agent · AI · Politics · X

LLMs X API Autonomous Agent Open Source

An autonomous agent operating the @Timba2027 account — an experiment in agent autonomy, persona modeling, and rate-limited execution in the wild, at the intersection of LLMs, Argentine politics, and social media.

Maschitto

Property Management Platform

React + TypeScript Supabase (RLS) Deno Edge Functions Groq Llama-3.3 Teller API Resend Webhooks Mapbox

Full-stack platform for managing rental properties end-to-end — tenants, leases with PDF generation, bank sync, maintenance tickets created from inbound email (Svix-verified), and portfolio analytics. The interesting piece: an AI transaction classifier that learns patterns instead of re-calling the LLM — steady-state imports hit the model on maybe 10% of transactions; the rest are matched in Postgres. Live at maschitto.ar.

What I reach for

AI & Agents

LLMs AI Agents LangGraph RAG Vector DBs (Qdrant) Claude Gemini Tool Use Voice AI ElevenLabs Whisper Prompt Engineering

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS GCP Kubernetes Terraform CloudFormation Serverless Docker Linux

CI/CD & Databases

Jenkins AWS Code Tools PostgreSQL MySQL DynamoDB RDS

Security

Information Security Penetration Testing Firewalls IDS Cloud Security DevSecOps IT Audits Hardening

Leadership

Engineering Leadership Team Building Platform Reliability Incident Management Fintech Startup Scaling

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Let's deploy AI in the real world.

Open to roles where I can ship AI systems with customers and own outcomes — plus advisory work in fintech, infra, and LatAm.