Founding PM & Product Engineer
Lendable • 2026–Present
PM for Lenda credit card in Mexico. Strategy, execution, and AI PE.
Founding PM -> Head of Product
Kontempo • 2021-2025
First employee; built Credit OS product 0→1, drove $30M seed.
Android → Head of Product
Segundamano.mx • 2015-2020
Best App 2015, marketplace supply, ML recs, public API.
Hello, I'm Marco Alvarez.
Product Manager at work. Product Engineer at OriginLabs. 12+ years shipping 0→1 across fintech, marketplaces & lending.
A lean group of Product Engineers leveraging AI to go from real problems to live products, fast.
AI & Machine Learning: Business Applications
Texas McCombs • 2026
Postgraduate ML program.
The Emerging Chief Product Officer
Stanford GSB • 2023
Executive program: Innovative Product Leadership
Fintech Minor
ITAM • 2022
Financial technologies.
Ley Fintech Minor
Universidad Anáhuac • 2022
Fintech regulation.
Software Engineering
Jönköping University • 2012
Study abroad.
B.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering
Tec de Monterrey • 2008-2013
Bachelor's degree.
OriginLabs.pro
An AI-native product lab — shipping products at pace, leveraging AI — from real problems to live products, fast.
Building Our Own Tools
We don't just ship products — we build the tools to build them.
Our tool to guide GTM, product definition, and iteration — how OriginLabs defines, launches, and grows every product.
Our AI copilot for product development — spaces, discovery, user stories, roadmaps. Built for how Product Engineers actually work.
Products
Real problems. Lean solutions. Built fast.
How We Build at OriginLabs
OriginLabs is an AI lab — I lead a small group of Product Engineers exploring how far AI lets us go: from a real problem to a live, monetizable product, fast.
What used to take a team and months, we now explore and ship in weeks.
Problem
Find a real pain someone will pay to fix.
Distribution
Know your channel before writing code.
Ship with AI
Claude Code, v0, Cursor. Days, not months.
Get paid
Live on day 1. Payment = real signal.
Measure & iterate
Talk to users weekly. Let signal lead.
Double down or kill
No sentiment. Speed of decision = edge.