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César Soto

About

I've led engineering teams for more than 25 years. For almost all of that time I scaled with headcount. Today I scale output.

At Rappi I was VP of Engineering: I led architecture, core services and the e-commerce partners platform, with more than 100 engineers. At Drift I was Sr Director of Engineering: I opened the Mexico operation in Guadalajara, grew the team from 3 to 35 people in under 2 years, and ran the Extensibility, DevOps and SRE teams.

Today I'm CTO of Simón, a B2B training platform in production with enterprise clients across Mexico and Latin America. We run it with agents: we ship 2 to 3 releases a week without hiring more developers. Agents build, the team decides.

Through PeakSyn, the studio I founded, I help other teams work this way. I'm not selling a tool: I share the system I run every day, with its checkpoints and what it still doesn't solve.

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César Soto

Track record

  1. CTO, Simón

    Since 2026. AI training platform for enterprises in Latin America, run with agents.

  2. Founder, PeakSyn

    Since 2024. I help engineering teams work with agents.

  3. Sr Director of Engineering, Drift

    2022–2024. Opened the Mexico operation in Guadalajara, from 3 to 35 people in under 2 years. Extensibility, DevOps and SRE.

  4. VP of Engineering, Rappi

    2020–2022. Architecture, core services and the e-commerce partners platform.

  5. Before, ContractRoom, Kueski and Grupo Posadas, among others

    Engineering and architecture leadership in software, fintech and hospitality.

Education

  • B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering, UNAM and UNITEC
  • Machine Learning: From Data to Decisions, MIT Professional Education (2019)
  • The Future of AI, Singularity University (2024)
  • SEI Software Architecture Professional, Carnegie Mellon (2008)

Away from work

You'll find me in the mountains, fishing with my son, or cooking when there's time. Every morning starts with a good coffee, before I open the laptop.

Your team already uses AI and the roadmap hasn't moved?

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