Alessandro Chacón
Head Of Engineering at Crypto Finance Group
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlessandro Chacón is a Head of Engineering based in Zurich with 12 years of experience building scalable backend and data platforms across fintech and media. He combines hands-on Java/Scala and Spark expertise with cloud-native operational skills (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Helm) to lead cross-functional teams from migration projects to ongoing platform delivery. At Crypto Finance he drove the migration of a trading platform to GCP and now leads Architecture, Backend and UI teams, prioritizing technical debt reduction and productivity improvements. His background spans real-time event systems, recommendation engines and large-scale location analytics, blending a 60/40 software/data scientist mindset from earlier roles. Fluent in multiple languages and holding a European Master in Distributed Computing, he brings a pragmatic functional-programming approach and dual Venezuelan–Italian perspective that helps navigate international, multidisciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidad Simón BolívarMaster's degree, European Master in Distributed Computing, Master's degree, European Master in Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Italian
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aecc/stream-tree-learning
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:246 commits in 18 days
aecc/fb-photo-downloader
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
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