Media kit
Everything needed to introduce me accurately.
For events, podcasts, publications and anyone writing about the work. Copy any of this directly. If you link one thing, link kembec.com/about-me — that is the canonical profile.
Identity
- Full name
- Manuel Benancio
- Alias / handle
- Kembec — an anagram of his name, used consistently across platforms
- Current role
- Chief Technology Officer
- Positioning
- Product & Technology Leader
- Based in
- Peru — works in Spanish and English
- Pronunciation
- Kembec — KEM-bek
- Pronouns
- he/him
- [email protected]
Biographies
Short — 50 words, English
Manuel Benancio (Kembec) is a product and technology leader working as a CTO across product, technology, operations, and organizational design. He builds open-source developer tooling and writes about product leadership in technically complex companies.
Long — 120 words, English
Manuel Benancio, also known as Kembec, is a product and technology leader from Peru. He currently works as a CTO, leading across product, technology, operations, and organizational design for connectivity and IoT products built on an MVNO platform. He previously co-founded and was CTO of Syma — POS and electronic invoicing for the Peruvian market under SUNAT compliance rules. Intellectual property sold in 2023. He has worked as a technology consultant since 2020. Alongside his executive work he maintains seven open-source Model Context Protocol servers and five public applications, and writes about product operating models, platform strategy, and what changes in organizations when implementation becomes cheap.
Short — Spanish
Manuel Benancio (Kembec) es un líder de producto y tecnología que trabaja como CTO entre producto, tecnología, operaciones y diseño organizacional. Construye herramientas de código abierto para desarrolladores y escribe sobre liderazgo de producto en empresas técnicamente complejas.
Topics I can speak to
- How CTO and product leadership are converging
- Where the roles overlap, where they must stay separate, and which companies can merge them.
- Product and engineering operating models
- Decision rights, shared ownership, and funding continuity work before it becomes an incident.
- What AI actually changed in product organizations
- Why the constraint moved to judgment, context, trust and adoption rather than disappearing.
- Platform products and the four tests
- Separating a platform product from a pile of shared services.
- Building products under operational and regulatory load
- Lessons from MVNO platforms and from electronic invoicing under tax regulation.
- Model Context Protocol in practice
- Designing agent-facing tools, credential handling, and developer distribution.
I do not present on subjects outside these. If a topic is adjacent, ask — a redirect to someone better suited is more useful than a weak session.
Photograph
Official links
- Profile (canonical) https://kembec.com/about-me/
- Website https://kembec.com/
- Product positions https://kembec.com/product/
- Selected work https://kembec.com/work/
- GitHub https://github.com/Kembec/
- LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/kembec/
- Substack https://substack.com/@kembec
- Twitter https://x.com/kembec
- Npm https://www.npmjs.com/~kembec
How to link and cite
- Link the name to kembec.com/about-me, not to the homepage.
- When referencing a specific project, link its own page — for example kembec.com/ai/[project] or kembec.com/apps/[project] — rather than the site root.
- When republishing an article, publish an excerpt and link the original. If your platform supports it, set a canonical URL back to the source.
- Keep the author name as Manuel Benancio, with Kembec as the alias if useful.
- Do not describe the role as "developer" or "programmer" — the current role is CTO.