Diego Acosta
Senior Software Engineer at Happening
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolDiego Acosta is a senior software engineer and architect with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-native, scalable services across AWS, .NET Core, Node.js and modern front-end stacks. He has led cross-functional teams and global service initiatives at companies like Sage, Vonage and Happening, combining technical leadership with active coding and architecture design. Diego excels at modernizing legacy systems—often doing the "archeology" needed to decommission undocumented components—and translating complex trade-offs into pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Based in Barcelona, he is comfortable both guiding stakeholder discussions and diving into implementation details across APIs, integrations and platform migrations. Known for a curious, detail-oriented approach, he thrives on architectural debates and continuous learning. Beyond formal roles, his background shows a consistent focus on building robust long-lived services and mentoring teams through change.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer Systems Engineering, Software Engineer Systems Engineering at Universidad ORT UruguayVisual Basic .Net Developer Software Development, Visual Basic .Net Developer Software Development at Empower U
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Github Skills (76)
slack-bot10
intermediate10
nintendo10
gameboy10
emulation10
runnable10
api10
sdk10
server-side10
google10
editing10
simulation10
multiprocessing10
quantum-algorithms9
express-gateway9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nakardo/node-gameboy
Sep 2015 - Sep 2019
A Gameboy emulator runnable on browsers or server side
Contributions:501 commits, 11 PRs, 118 pushes in 4 years
gameboyemulatorgameboy-emulatorbrowsersrunnable
nakardo/hapi-mongoose2
Aug 2018 - May 2020
mongoose plugin for hapi-based servers
Contributions:25 PRs, 81 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year 9 months
hapimongoose-pluginexpresshapijsnodejs
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