Summary
Diego Potapczuk is a Staff Software Engineer and architect based in Barcelona with two decades of software experience and over a decade in senior engineering roles driving large-scale, cloud-native systems. He has led architecture and technical strategy at Twilio and Oracle—modernizing a 1,000+ microservice ecosystem, implementing distributed multi-region patterns for GDPR and resilience, and creating a Data Sync platform focused on observability and composability. As a former co-founder and CTO, he blends startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering, having built SaaS products, tooling, and simulation software across diverse stacks from Java and Kotlin to Unity and AWS. Diego is experienced in shaping sustainable modular monoliths and domain-driven designs while mentoring teams, promoting engineering culture, and delivering production-ready frameworks and observability practices. Notably, his background spans both product company scale and hands-on R&D—giving him a practical edge in turning complex architectural goals into incremental, testable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Management and Technologies applied to Education, Master, Management and Technologies applied to Education at Bahia State University
Specialization Degree, System Engineering, Specialization Degree, System Engineering at ESAB
Bachelor, Systems Information, Bachelor, Systems Information at Unime
English, Portuguese, Spanish