Diego Figueroa is a Sr Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise settings. A Rubyist at heart, he has combined hands-on engineering with leadership roles—from co-founding and serving as CTO at Osigu to directing engineering and now senior staff engineering at Yalo. His background spans payments and platform engineering at Xoom, API-first backends, and building operationally efficient systems for insurance tech, reflecting a strong focus on reliable transaction processing. He also taught computer science topics like compilers and machine structures, indicating a deep theoretical foundation that informs his practical designs. Based in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, Diego brings entrepreneurial grit and a penchant for crafting pragmatic, maintainable systems that scale. Colleagues would note he prefers solving hard problems with clean code and thoughtfully engineered platforms rather than flashy one-off solutions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Universidad Galileo
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Diego Figueroa - Sr Staff Software Engineer at Yalo