I'm Manuel Benancio, usually Kembec.

I'm CTO at Guinea Mobile in Peru. We build the platform other companies use to offer mobile service under their own brand.

I started as a developer in 2008 and still read the code my teams write.

Now

My team works on provisioning and activating lines, managing plans, rating and billing usage, and integrating our partners. We make changes without taking the service down.

I work in Spanish and English, from Peru, with teams and partners across Latin America.

Before

I started with small sites in 2008, then backend work, then the infrastructure under it. In 2018 I co-founded Syma, which sold point-of-sale and electronic invoicing software to Peruvian retailers under SUNAT's rules. I was CTO there until 2023, and it was the first time I had to care about payroll, support and sales as well as the code.

Between 2020 and 2024 I consulted for Grupo Anta on digital strategy and e-commerce for businesses around Latin America. I joined Guinea Mobile in August 2024.

Where that happened

  1. 2024 — CTO, Guinea Mobile Connectivity, IoT and internal platforms.
  2. 2020 — 2024 Technology consultant, Grupo Anta Digital strategy and e-commerce for Latin American businesses.
  3. 2018 — 2023 Co-founder and CTO, Syma Point-of-sale and electronic invoicing software for the Peruvian market.
  4. 2014 — Software architect and developer, Kembec Architecture, APIs and consulting, across several industries.

Outside the title

I photograph shows and streets, mostly in black and white, and keep the results in snapshots. I also build small tools and leave them running, most of them on their own subdomain.

Elsewhere