👋🏽 Hey There!
I'm Marvin
Currently leading the Editor AI team at Figma, where I work at the intersection of creativity, intelligence, and product design. My career has taken me through leadership roles across Growth, Payments, and Infrastructure at companies like Webflow, Fast, Quibi, and GoFundMe. Along the way, I've advised early-stage startups, championed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and built software systems spanning event pipelines, experimentation platforms, payments, and data warehousing.
I'm a proud immigrant from Peru 🇵🇪 and a first-generation MIT 🦫 graduate, experiences that shape how I lead, build, and connect. Outside of work, I’m powered by good coffee ☕️ and driven by the rhythms of salsa, reggaeton, and hip-hop 🎧.
I'm here not just for work, but for community, creativity, and meaningful collaboration. Let’s build something great together.
Expertise
I have 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and 5+ years of Engineering Management experience.
Product Growth
I specialize in driving product-led growth through a combination of user insights, data experimentation, and scalable platform enhancements. At Webflow, I led initiatives that leveraged SEO optimization, experimentation frameworks, and marketplace enhancements to boost acquisition and activation. At Figma, I took underutilized community features and turned them into strategic growth channels through infrastructure upgrades and UX improvements. My approach balances user empathy with data rigor, delivering features and experiences that unlock meaningful engagement and long-term retention.
Team Growth & Development
Throughout my career, I’ve built and scaled high-performing engineering teams across startups and high-growth environments. I’ve grown teams from 1 to 6 (Figma Editor AI) and from 4 to 16 (Webflow Growth), while fostering inclusive, collaborative cultures that prioritize impact and learning. My leadership style emphasizes mentorship, autonomy, and structured goal-setting, enabling teams to move quickly without sacrificing quality. I focus not only on hiring top talent but also on creating environments where engineers can do the best work of their careers.
Project Management
I lead complex, cross-functional projects from zero to launch with clarity and execution discipline. From launching AI-powered features at Figma in under four months to overhauling messaging systems at Fast, I’ve consistently delivered high-quality outcomes on aggressive timelines. I take a proactive, systems-oriented approach to planning, ensuring alignment across Product, Design, and Engineering. By combining agile execution with strong communication and risk management, I enable my teams to stay focused, adapt quickly, and deliver work that matters.
Technical Expertise
My technical background spans payments systems, messaging infrastructure, real-time collaboration tools, and AI-powered design features. I’ve designed subscription billing systems (Quibi), built scalable event pipelines (Fast), and overseen experimentation platforms and growth infrastructure (Webflow). With hands-on experience in building APIs, cloud services, and experimentation frameworks, I bridge the gap between strategy and implementation. My technical fluency allows me to earn trust with engineers while aligning solutions tightly with business and user needs.
Recent Work
Figma
June 5, 2023
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Webflow
September 14, 2021
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May 26, 2023
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Drove Activation & Acquisition strategies, advancing our mission to empower everyone in web creation. Focused on building the world's most powerful visual development platform, our team dedicated to enhancing the user journey, ensuring users discover and experience the full value of Webflow seamlessly.
Fast
November 30, 2020
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August 31, 2021
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Drove technological advancements for scalable data processing. This includes optimizing the user events pipeline, establishing a centralized communications service, and developing internal tools for seamless partner interactions and communication updates.
Quibi
March 31, 2019
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December 16, 2020
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Designed subscription processing services, established the Commerce Engineering team, and managed the T-Mobile engineering relationship. Led the delivery of a Customer Support portal handling ~300 calls/day and implemented an Experimentation Framework to validate subscription model growth potential.
GoFundMe
February 6, 2018
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March 19, 2019
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Revamped payments processing for a unified user experience, reduced redundancy by half, and facilitated provider transitions. Also delivered the Charity Search service, decreasing search time by 20x. Additionally, onboarded and mentored two engineers, and streamlined continuous delivery with revamped infrastructure cookbooks.
