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Luis Benitez

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VP, Digital Banking Engineering at Popular
📍 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Luis is the VP of Digital Banking Engineering at Popular, where he leads the transformation of their monolithic system into a cloud microservice architecture. An MIT graduate, he has deep expertise in product management, DevSecOps, and design thinking. Colleagues describe him as a phenomenal, highly-motivated, and enthusiastic leader.

He is passionate about leveraging technology to simplify processes and improve user experiences, with a focus on agile methodologies and continuous improvement. He actively shares insights on digital transformation, process automation, and customer-centric development, showing a keen interest in industry innovation from companies like Amazon.

Unique fact: Luis led a project using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) that won the 2019 IT Project of the Year, achieving productivity improvements equivalent to over 20, 000 hours.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
VP, Digital Banking Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
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Cloud Transformation
He is currently leading the initiative to convert a 15-year-old monolith system into a modern cloud microservice architecture at Popular.
DevSecOps Culture
He established the enterprise DevSecOps initiative and is actively hiring for his team, showing a strong focus on secure and efficient software development cycles.
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Career

Work history

6-2022
VP, Digital Banking Engineering
Popular
10-2020 - 6-2022
VP, Assisted Banking Experience
Popular
12-2016 - 9-2020
VP, Digital Workplace
Popular
7-2015 - 12-2016
Group Product Manager - IBM Watson Workspace & Work Services
IBM
8-2010 - 7-2015
Senior Product Manager - IBM Connections
IBM
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Education
1997 - 2001
B.S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1986 - 1997
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Colegio Marista
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