Jose Escobar

Jose Escobar is Chief Technology Officer at Fluid, where he runs the engineering organisation, owns the platform's reliability targets, and sets the technical direction across product engineering, infrastructure, and AI.

With 15-plus years in iGaming and adjacent fintech, Jose has built and led engineering teams at GIG and Orbit — companies whose platforms underpin live casino and sportsbook brands across multiple regulated markets. He is one of the people in this industry who has actually been on call at 3am for a payment outage, which shapes how he thinks about everything from service-level objectives to deployment cadence.

At Fluid, Jose is the bridge between what the product team wants to ship and what the engineering team can ship safely against the SLAs operators expect. He sets the standards for code review, observability, and incident response, and he is responsible for the platform staying invisible to the operators who count on it.

He writes about engineering leadership in regulated fintech, scaling teams without losing the institutional payment knowledge that keeps the lights on, and the operational practices that separate a cashier you can trust from one you can't.