I'm Facundo Chambó, a CTO and technology advisor with 15+ years building digital products and high-performance engineering teams. I work with CEOs as a C-level partner, and with boards and VC firms as a technology advisor: turning business strategy into technology decisions, and making every dollar of the tech budget move the business forward.
Ex-CTO Homie.mx · Ex-Director of Technology Santander · 10 years at Despegar
Each engagement is shaped to the stage you're at. Pick the one that fits, or mix them.
For founders & CEOs
Executive technology and product leadership a few hours a week. Architecture, roadmap, AI adoption, security and compliance, and building your engineering team.
For VCs & boards
An independent technical view for investors and boards of directors. Due diligence before you invest, and oversight once you have.
For early-stage companies
From idea to a product customers pay for. Discovery, MVP, and an AI-native engineering setup that keeps you shipping after launch.
I've spent 15+ years building digital products and high-performance engineering teams across fintech, banking, proptech and travel. I make engineering decisions through the lens of the user journey and the business model, not just the architecture diagram.
Every week I talk with at least four founders or CEOs. Most can describe their AI use case well. Far fewer can say where AI is taking their industry. Helping them answer that, and build accordingly, is what I enjoy most.
Investment-banking technology · United States, remote · Part-time
CTO for a company operating under strict regulatory and security requirements. Led it through SOC 2 Type II (controls, testing, process). Built scalable, redundant infrastructure across AWS and Azure, shipped customer-facing features using AI agents and OCR, and built a multidisciplinary team from the ground up.
Proptech · Mexico, remote
Led engineering and product through rapid scale and consolidation. Acquired and technically integrated two companies to expand into Chile, merging codebases, infrastructure and teams across Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela and Colombia into one unit. Migrated a monolith to microservices on AWS and Kubernetes; built an ML-based market-price calculator and a support chatbot that cut inbound calls 40% and lifted NPS and CSAT.
Travel & tourism · Vancouver, Canada, remote · Part-time
Assessed an outdated platform and defined the modernization strategy. Relaunched and rebranded two white-label booking sites on React and Java, defined the SEO strategy, recruited the team that executed the relaunch, and presented the company to investors at Collision Conference in Toronto.
Banking · Global, remote · Reporting to the CIO
Built and led a global technology hub that drove Grupo Santander's digital transformation across the region: 90+ people, 65 hires in one year across 7 squads. Delivered a foreign-trade platform for Colombia in 6 months, replacing a licensed product and saving ~USD 1M a year. Redesigned Brazil's online-banking back office, created a Data Science & Data Engineering team in Uruguay, and built a card-transaction tax engine and merchant onboarding for Getnet Argentina and Mexico. Presented quarterly results to Santander Argentina's Executive Committee.
Switzerland, remote
Managed three teams building TV and live video streaming projects on Azure and AWS.
Travel · Argentina · Senior Software Engineer → Tech Lead → Engineering Manager
Ten years at Latin America's leading online travel company, growing from engineer to engineering manager. Cut manual after-sale work by 85%.
La Plata, Argentina
SOA Developer at Snoop Consulting and Unix server support at LIFIA (UNLP).
A wrong call on your data model or infrastructure at month three costs you a rewrite at month eighteen. I focus energy where reversing course is expensive.
Build controls into how teams already ship, give engineers clear guardrails, and make the audit trail a byproduct of good engineering.
One coherent framework, governed and secure by design, built on emerging protocols like MCP so you don't have to rebuild later.
Most early startups don't need 40 hours a week of a CTO. They need 10 hours a week of the right one, and a team that can execute the rest.
“Facundo is an excellent professional, dedicated, hardworking and self-sufficient. He always is motivated and willing to work. It was a pleasure working with him.”
“Facundo is always looking for new challenges. He has an excellent team work spirit and IT knowledges. A person of great value to any work team.”
AI strategy
We're living through the 1990s of the Internet again. Protocols, standards and regulation will decide who wins.
M&A
What changes for technology leadership when companies merge, and how to plan the integration.
Leadership
The expensive hiring mistake after a seed round, and when a fractional CTO earns its cost.
I don't use contact forms. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn:
Intros welcome too. If someone in your network knows me, ask them to connect us.