Keep pulling the thread on Sebastian Barrios.
MercadoLibre is the most valuable company in Latin America, with a valuation of over $100 billion.
MercadoLibre's engineering and product team consists of over 18,000 engineers operating across 18 countries.
MercadoLibre's engineering teams perform approximately 30,000 deployments to production per day.
MercadoLibre's logistics network delivers over 5 million packages per day.
MercadoLibre is larger than eBay and PayPal combined by market capitalization.
MercadoLibre plans to have over 100,000 employees by the end of the current year.
At MercadoLibre, the ratio of product managers to developers is less than 1-to-18, with fewer than 1,000 PMs for 18,000 developers.
MercadoLibre is experimenting with AI agents that can combine existing microservices to create new end-to-end user features, including a UI, without writing new code.
Apple added a new App Store rule prohibiting apps from excessively draining battery life specifically in response to an app created by Sebastian Barrios.
MercadoLibre's e-commerce and fintech businesses are approximately the same size.
MercadoLibre has developed an internal AI platform named Verdi to abstract complexities and enable teams to build AI-powered features.
MercadoLibre does not use a top-down OKR (Objectives and Key Results) system for goal setting.