Summary
Andres Pagliano is a Principal Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 16 years of experience building backend systems and distributed services, currently shaping search infrastructure at Booking.com. He holds a Licentiate in Computer Science and has deep hands-on expertise in Java, Perl, Kubernetes, and large-scale backend architecture, having progressed through multiple senior roles at Booking.com. Andres pairs enterprise experience with entrepreneurial R&D—co-founding startups focused on mobile/wearable tech and next-generation video compression—bringing a research-driven mindset to product engineering. His background spans low-level C++ system work at Intel to mobile game and cross-platform development, demonstrating versatility across languages and platforms. Known for translating academic R&D into production-ready solutions, he also spent time as a visiting scholar working on scientific visualization and modeling, an uncommon mix for someone in platform engineering.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Spanish, English