Luis Cabanillas

Senior Technical Program Manager

About Me

I am a Technical Program and Product Manager with more than a decade of experience in the software development industry, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to drive execution on product roadmaps and end-to-end projects.

I am passionate about customers, product development, and translating business requirements into a strategy for technical solutions.

Contact

Email
luis.cabanillasl@gmail.com
Phone
+1 (425) 499-6506
Location
Seattle Area, WA

Work Experience

Sr. Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Apr, 2021 - Present Seattle Area, WA 🇺🇸

Driving product strategy and planning for automated testing infrastructure, build reliability and pipeline gating for the Microsoft Teams web and desktop clients. Driving continuous improvement on processes and practices, fostering constant experimentation and feedback gathering to drive change based on data and evidence. Communicating effectively with customers to understand their current and future needs supporting feature development groups infrastructure needs.

Technical Product Manager at Expedia Group
May, 2019 - Apr, 2021 Seattle Area, WA 🇺🇸

Led product roadmap definition, strategy and successful execution.Collaborated with engineering teams, UX, and product management to gather requirements, identify challenges, and design enterprise technical solutions for customer-facing initiatives in the lodging business for Expedia Group’s brands.

Owned technical product delivery in multiple end-to-end projects with cross-functional teams, while communicating timely and effectively with business and engineering stakeholders. Leveraged data to validate product roadmap and operational outcomes and inform decision making to continue adding value to customers.

Project Manager / Scrum Master at Accenture
Jan, 2015 - May, 2019 Minneapolis, MN | Silicon Valley, CA | Seattle Area, WA 🇺🇸

Collaborated with engineering teams, product managers, and design teams in multi-vendor set-ups to lead roadmap definition and execution with a strong agile focus. Led multi-disciplinary teams to successful end-to-end product delivery in enterprise programs for large clients such as T-Mobile, Cisco and Best Buy. Led data-driven decision making based on customer’s behavior and feedback.

Scrum Master at Tiempo Development
Nov, 2013 - Jan, 2015 Hermosillo, México 🇲🇽
User generated content in real-time will have multiple touchpoints for offshoring. Organically grow the holistic world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
Lead Software Development Engineer at Global VoIP
Sep, 2012 - Nov, 2013 Hermosillo, México 🇲🇽
Led the architectural design and development, and performed hands-on coding work for a new web-based platform for a state property registration office. Optimized and increased the initial software delivery rate at a 4x factor based on automation and continuous improvement. Provided a data-oriented solution to obtain insights on the Technical Support business in the company to improve customer satisfaction.
Software Development Engineer at Lennken Group
Sep, 2012 - Nov, 2013 Hermosillo, México 🇲🇽
Developed a variety of software products (banking, collaboration platforms, and LMS), doing full-stack development and testing. Co-led the first project using agile methodologies within the company, delivering a financial control platform successfully and on-time for a state government office.
Software Development Engineer at Freelance
Oct, 2010 - Jul, 2011 Hermosillo, México 🇲🇽
Developed an alternative for local businesses to adopt the then-new electronic invoicing scheme in Mexico. Acquired field experience managing clients and deadlines before graduating from college.

Education

Computer Systems Engineering Bachelor's Degree from Universidad del Valle de México
2007 - 2011 Hermosillo, México 🇲🇽
Computer Systems Engineering International Exchange Program at Universidad Andrés Bello/span>
2009 Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱

Blog Posts and Podcast

Podcast

Miércoles Ágil

In this podcast I gathered with some friends to talk about agility.

Medium

The Agile Manifesto is great, but we need to move on

How is it possible that we keep saying the Agile Manifesto, an almost 20 years old document in the most dynamic industry in the world, is still valid as it was written back then?