Nicolas Cohen Email & Phone Number

La Trinidad, Provincia De Buenos Aires, Ar

Santa Monica, California, Us

As Director of Engineering at IPSY, I lead 5 Experience teams (Acquisition, Subscriptions, Commerce, International, and Experience Platform). These teams cover the majority of the IPSY front end. My role involves managing teams, setting strategic direction, and ensuring seamless collaboration with product and leadership teams to meet business goals.Key Responsibilities: • Oversee engineering teams, fostering innovation and efficiency through scrum methodology. • Define and implement the technology roadmap, ensuring scalability and performance. • Partner with senior leadership to align engineering projects with strategic objectives. • Maintain team productivity and morale during challenging periods, including multiple company-wide layoffs.Key Achievements: • Decoupled and evolved from a pure monolithic to a microservices-oriented architecture. • Interviewed +150 and hired +50 frontend/backend engineers. • Led the platform Simplification project to decommission old systems which required deep technical knowledge and strategic planning and execution of many migration initiatives. • Built 5 strong-skilled efficient teams that operate all over the IPSY front end layer.

Santa Monica, California, Us

IPSY is the largest beauty subscription in the world, has more than 3M monthly active members, and has shipped over 1 billion products. IPSY's signature Glam Bags deliver personalized beauty products that fit each member's lifestyle. Founded in 2011 to inspire everyone to express their unique beauty, IPSY strives to make beauty more inclusive and welcoming to all.IPSY is headquartered in the Bay Area with an office in New York City and a studio production and editing facility in Los Angeles. The company achieved profitability in its first year and has received over $100M in growth capital from premier investors including TPG, Sherpa and top industry insiders.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Head of Product & Tech & Infrastructure teams at OLX Latam.Leading 3 cross-functional software development teams (45 people: Tech Leads, Front/Back-End devs, QA, Product Owners, Devops, etc) in a web/mobile platform with 22+ million users.Main responsibilities:• Define top priorities and goals in terms of product & tech teams.• Collaborate and help different areas of the business helping them to achieve their goals.• Work in complex technical issues to maintain platform stability.Main accomplishment:• Fully migrated the whole OLX Latam's platform to a new one (22+ million users, 8 different countries). This was my biggest goal since I started working at OLX. Everything worked as expected :)Key accomplishments:• Implemented the Spotify Engineering Culture in the Engineering team• Organized and orchestrated the team and culture towards a CI/CD pipeline• Continued decoupling dispersed monoliths to have a fully microservice oriented architecture• Fully integrated a fraud prevention service in the platform• Solved critical issues in queue management system and ejabberd chat server• Implemented a monetization system besides the base advertising modelOLX Latam is part of OLX Group, a network of leading marketplaces present in 30+ countries with 20+ brands.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

In charge of the maintenance and growth of the OLX LATAM web platform and mobile apps.As a manager I lead a team of 40+ people (Tech Leads, Developers, QA, etc) divided in 3 different squads by implementing agile methodologies and following concrete OKRs.

Ciudad De Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Us

I Co-Founded this company from scratch in Argentina and expanded it to Chile and Mexico.• Hired a 15-people fully remote team (Customer Service, Sales, Product & Tech, UI/UX).• Full in-house development, CI/CD fast delivery, and iteration of the service.• Continuous sales funnel analysis, A/B testing, and UX improvements.• Hundreds of happy users paying for the service every month.• More than 10,000 reservations MoM.We had 2 different services:• EntrenaYa Outlet: A "Groupon for Gyms & Fitness" (a pay-as-you-go service with discounts).• EntrenaYa FIT: The "Uber for Gyms & Fitness" (a subscription-based service where users can book choosing from thousands of classes in hundreds of gyms & fitness centers).Some important tech milestones:• Checkout: Increased the revenue 25% by optimizing the semi-online and abandoned checkout processes.• Monthly billing: Reduced the billing process from 8 days/month to just 1 day/month by implementing an automated billing processor.• Emails: Developed a personalized weekly newsletter based on user interests and navigation history, the newsletter became the biggest revenue generator.Languages & Technologies: AWS, Java, Grails, React+Redux, NodeJS/ExpressJS, MySQL, Linux, Webpack, HTML5, SASS, CSS3, Javascript.Honors & Awards: • 500 Startups Early Stage Venture Fund, México City, 2014. • Startup Chile Accelerator, Santiago, Chile, 2014.• Buenos Aires Emprende, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013.

Buenos Aires, Ar

MercadoLibre is the #1 eCommerce company in LATAM, operating in 19 countries.I've been responsible for the development, testing, deployment and monitoring of different projects. Definition of project architecture, scopes, goals and understanding of project requirements. Project management lifecycle using SCRUM and TDD.Projects:• My Account: New version of the user account, active/inactive/sold/favorite items.• Categories Navigation: Changed the website categories navigation, ability to make massive changes, leaf/trunk mirroring, item migrations between tree nodes, etc.Technologies: Java, Groovy on Grails, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Oracle and Linux.

Buenos Aires, Ar

I was in charge of the development of a new Checkout process for the entire website. It was a Java development, the process was designed as a pipeline. Effectively interacted with the UX/design team for a much better experience.Technologies: AWS, Java, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Oracle and Linux.

Buenos Aires, Ar

Projects:• Social Shopping: In charge of building the product catalog, I developed a web scraper to fill the website with products by uploading an XML, the automated process uploaded 35,000 products in just 3 months working 24x7.• Remedy Center: Development using an Asterisk server to make phone verifications before checkout for users with low confidence threshold• Repeated Feedback: Developed a newer version of an algorithm to calculate the user score, it increased the user engagement by 20%.Technologies: Java, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, Resin web server, HTML, CSS, Javascript.

Buenos Aires, Ar

Projects: • eShops 2.0: Participated in the development of a personalized shopping cart for each user, the target was to increase the revenue and user engagement.• Free Base Tiers: It allowed free listings for new users in specific categories, this project increased the listings in the website.

- Build applications for the customers to manage inbound/outbound calls- Campaign management- Database customization and optimization

Informatics Engineer

Bachelor Of Informatics