Luis Blando Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

As the Chief Product & Technology Officer at OutSystems, I lead the global product management and engineering efforts, driving the strategy and execution of our AI-powered low-code platform. Reporting to the CEO, I am responsible for enhancing our product vision, accelerating innovation, and ensuring operational excellence across our technology teams.Key Responsibilities:- Overseeing a team of 600+ professionals across engineering and product management.- Spearheading the development and execution of our AI-driven product roadmap.- Collaborating with the executive team to align product strategies with business objectives.- Promoting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the technology organization.- Enhancing customer experience through cutting-edge AI and low-code solutions.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Managed the company’s largest product family, core email security, accounting for majority of revenues at $800M+ / year and a global team of 650 employees. Oversaw product and program management, threat research and operations, engineering, professional services, sales engineering, architecture, and other functions.- Grew revenue from $670M to $830M and gross margins ~3% and kept costs contained by revamping mature product line- Increased organization by 200 employees and absorbed two times message volume growth, scaling operations of public and hybrid cloud services deployed in 15+ hosting environments, 10+ data centers, and eight public cloud environments - Retained customers and shortened sales cycle via tighter product to go-to-market coordination, improving customer acquisition and retention of ~8,000 large and 32,000 small-to-medium enterprise customers in mature market - Innovated product creation by designing and launching multiple new products and detection engines, revamping ML maturity, leveraging Agile transformation, filing dozens of patents, and enabling new geographies- Organically expanded near-shore, starting first-ever remote research and development site, growing it to ~80 employees in one year, sponsoring “hack” days, and revamping toolchain; now key engine of company innovation

San Jose, California, Us

Led all products in the detection/security operations center portfolio, responsible for nine product lines with global teams of 350 employees. Focused on next-generation security technologies and solutions based on analytics and machine learning. - Increased customer satisfaction, net promoter scores (NPS), and bookings by leading turnaround of ailing product and improving product and process quality for key $150M+ product line with Fortune 50 customers - Defined and delivered company’s first offering in endpoint detection and response (EDR) space in nine months, from inception to market, managing Skunkworks project in new strategic area and working in ‘clean-room’ environment - Led OpenDXL to market with dozens of partners on board by championing and delivering security ecosystem plumbing with extensible, semantically loaded, open fabric for security information sharing - Successfully divested two product lines with no impact on customers, employee turnover, or morale, hitting all financials metrics

San Jose, California, Us

Managed all mobile products in consumer and enterprise segments, 200-person global organization with products in-market for Android, iOS, and all major mobile platforms. Oversaw McAfee Mobile Security, consumer mobile solution with 100M+ users. - Turned entire mobile team into hot bed of innovation, introducing in-app beta/labs cycle tied to program planning - Increased users, app store ratings, and NPS, bringing flagship product to leadership - Achieved consistent top scores in AV-Test (independent organization that evaluates and rates antivirus and security suite software) and first-ever perfect score for product line, still industry leader - Built strong pipeline and launched two products to market, driving bold innovation program with technology and business incentives

Santa Clara, California, Us

Established and led all aspects of software subsidiary in Argentina (“startup within”), including organization of design center, marketing, product development, HR, finances, operations, and public relations. - Conceived and won enterprise-level support and launched “AppUp” appstore, championing strategic move and engineering product; CEO launched store at Consumer Technology Association’s tradeshow (CES) in January 2010 - Won Argentina’s most prestigious high-tech award five times after building R&D center from concept to performance, acknowledged as preferred location for growth in software careers - Led corporation in cost optimization by developing in-house integration, commercial applications, and development framework with open-source tools; comprehensive toolkit cost less than $400 per engineer - Generated 28 invention disclosures, five U.S. patent submissions, 18 prototypes, and five launched products/platforms by forging innovation and delivery-based culture in two years - Enabled Intel to launch first-ever service offerings with development of Intel Services Manager enterprise-wide platform - Facilitated OEMs in building server clusters by successfully leading architecture specification and all engineering activities for Intel’s “Cluster Ready” program, currently utilized by Dell, Cray, SGI, Acer, and Fujitsu - Established leading community involvement/ecosystem program by partnering with government and university to launch tele-medicine in Argentina and specialization post-graduate program

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Chartered to build a business transformation group tasked with conceptualizing and launching new services, and optimizing the Web infrastructure. Managed a 250+people, $25M budget. We created a number of products and services within Verizon, as well as the underlying infrastructure required to actually deploy and operate these services. In addition, I was the lead for information technology when Verizon went into the television business, creating FiOS TV. I led the strategic work, business development, and negotiation with key vendors (Microsoft, Motorola), as well as the engineering execution of key programs until "lights on".

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Senior member of a team of 20+ computer scientists, engineers, and software developers. Notably, I designed and built a rule-based form validation engine which automated processing of service request forms, thus fulfilling an FCC mandate, saving GTE hundreds of millions of dollars. The system was operational long after I left that job, and continued to hum and withstand a number of "requirement revisions" without any needs for refactoring or any major overhauling. A strong commercial use of aspect oriented programming (http://www.blando.info/luis/eelc/default.htm).

Boston, Ma, Us

Recruited to introduce advanced reengineering and application development methodologies. The core FX system was indeed sped up (to spec), but I was looking for a more research-oriented environment, so upon finishing the committed projects, I moved on.

Joined the core technical team; rose to leadership of software development. Hired software team with seven advanced developers; implemented (IBM) Rational’s Unified Process for software design and development—achieved 100% on-time release delivery. Went crazy about Object Oriented Programming Languages and Design Patterns...

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Research AssistantConducted research on image-quality metrics; developed image processing software.

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Served as Technical Lead for development of a comprehensive IS plan for a major utility—engaged with customers to define business requirements; met all milestones and highest quality standards.

Ms In Management, System Dynamics, Finance, Management

Ms In Computer Science, Software Engineering (Object Oriented)

Ms In Computer Science, Pattern Recognizition, Ocr

Ms, Bs In Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Development, Computer Graphics