Ethien Salinas
Chief Technology Officer at Ikualo
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolEthien Salinas is a fintech-focused CTO with 11 years of hands-on engineering and 15+ years of industry experience building resilient lending platforms and digital banking products across Europe and Latin America. He has repeatedly moved companies from idea to regulated operation—scaling teams, reducing vendor dependence, and delivering API-first credit engines that automate the full loan lifecycle while maintaining 99.9% uptime for core financial flows. Comfortable in crisis, he has managed DDoS and operational incidents under pressure and designs infrastructure under least-privilege principles to give boards and investors confidence. Equally at home defining product roadmaps and translating business KPIs into technical milestones, he has turned technical assets into proprietary IP that improved valuation and eased M&A diligence twice. Based in Madrid, he combines startup grit and enterprise rigor from roles at Creze, Intelligential, Buró de Crédito and HSBC, and is known for building distributed, squad-based engineering organisations across Spain and LATAM.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Project Management, Master's degree, Project Management at Universidad Tecnológica de MéxicoThe National Polytechnic Institute of MexicoBachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Universidad de Londres
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Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
beduExpert/Java-SE-I-MASIVO-2022
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
ethien-salinas/FSBT102019
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:376 PRs, 391 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 10 months
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