Franco Ortiz

Technical Product Manager · Payments & cross-border fintech · ex Mobile Engineering Lead

fr.dv.ortiz@gmail.com · franco-ortiz.com · linkedin.com/in/franco-david-ortiz · github.com/Pakvothe · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Summary

Technical Product Manager at belo, a LatAm fintech with 3.5M+ users, after four years leading its mobile engineering. I run product for cross-border payments: roadmap, OKRs, payment-provider integrations in new countries and the SQL analysis behind every decision. I am most useful where regulation, payment providers and product have to fit in the same decision. I build with AI agents daily.

Experience

Technical Product Manager, belo

Feb 2026 - Present

Own the roadmap and OKRs for the cross-border payments squad of a regulated fintech.

  • Found a ~50% drop in the take rate of a payment rail with six-figure monthly revenue that nobody had flagged; the analysis triggered the pricing review.
  • Caught a revenue metric off by 96% (wrong source table), found the right source and documented it company-wide.
  • Stopped a four-year analytics contract priced at twice the incumbent tool; led the evaluation of alternatives with six-figure annual savings.
  • Took a new-country payment integration from kickoff to internal release in 11 days, with account opening in about 4 seconds.
  • Turned a one-off regulatory requirement into a reusable localization capability, in production the same day.
  • My OKR format was adopted by the CPO as the standard for every squad.
  • Run planning and architecture decisions for a squad without a tech lead.
  • Stopped an unlicensed US app-store launch under executive pressure, quantified the regulatory exposure and proposed a viable state-by-state path.

Frontend & Mobile Lead, belo

Feb 2022 - Feb 2026
  • Led the rewrite of the belo app from Flutter to React Native: 3.5M users, five months.
  • Built and managed the frontend and mobile teams: hiring, 1:1s, performance reviews, mentoring.
  • Owned mobile architecture and performance on iOS and Android for a regulated fintech operating in several countries.

Founder, i1n (side project)

Feb 2026 - Present
  • Localization infrastructure for React and React Native stacks that decouples translation management from deploy cycles. Product, backend, frontend, CLI and npm package.

Frontend Developer, Navent

May 2021 - Jan 2022
  • Zonaprop and Imovelweb, high-traffic real estate platforms built with React.

Frontend Developer, Aconpy

Feb 2021 - May 2021
  • Sole frontend developer of Paiddly, a virtual wallet, from first commit to deployment.

Skills

Product: Product Management, Technical Product Management, Payments, Cross-border Payments, OKRs, Roadmaps, Vendor Management, Pricing

Data: SQL, BigQuery, Product Analytics

Engineering: React Native, React, TypeScript, Mobile Architecture, Engineering Management, AI agents (Claude Code)

Education & Languages

Henry Full Stack Bootcamp, Oct 2020 - Jan 2021 · Languages: Spanish (native), English (professional working proficiency)