Elvio Vicosa
CTO at Jodel
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolElvio Vicosa is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across Europe and global platforms. He combines hands-on engineering expertise—spanning GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, MySQL/Vitess, Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch—with strategic product and business sense developed as a fractional CTO and technical advisor to startups. Elvio has led engineering organizations at Shopify, AWS, and multiple startups, shipping user-facing features and content moderation systems as well as platform-grade infrastructure. Now based in Barcelona, he’s helping Jodel reconnect local communities while drawing on prior CTO roles that balanced rapid delivery with budget discipline. Outside of work he’s an avid outdoors person, reflecting a practical, grounded approach to problem solving. Colleagues describe him as business-driven and curious—someone who translates product needs into pragmatic, maintainable architectures.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pelotas
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
75reputation
3kreached
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Github Skills (32)
markdown10
javascript10
erlang10
python10
elixir10
shiny10
java10
static-site10
liquid10
creative-commons10
cpp10
beam9
ruby9
blog-engine9
memcached9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elvio/elvio.github.io
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:118 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
daniellevicosa/daniellevicosa.github.io
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:28 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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