Juan Pablo Buriticá is a software engineering leader who has built and led distributed teams for over a decade. He is originally from Bogotá, Colombia and lives in New York City. He leads the LatAm Engineering organization at Stripe, focused on building financial infrastructure in the region. After a decade of building distributed engineering teams, he compiled his experience in The Holloway Guide to Remote Work.

Juan Pablo has built high-performing software engineering organizations by emphasizing Open Source software values, technical excellence, trust, and empathy. He has also organized more than 10 software engineering conferences in the US & Latin America, founded multiple JavaScript meetups, and led the growth of Colombia’s JavaScript community, now one of the largest Spanish-speaking JS communities in the world.

His favorite food group is empanadas.