Summary
Federico León is a platform architect and technical leader with 11+ years designing high-performance, cloud-native distributed systems for startups and large-scale environments like Mercado Libre. He specializes in Go-based backends, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures and observability, and has driven measurable results such as 120x API performance gains, sub-200ms latency for critical operations and a 60% MTTR reduction. Federico has built multi-tenant platforms with zero-downtime deployments and led migrations from monoliths to microservices while aligning architecture with business outcomes. As an educator and instructor, he’s published Go courses and runs a learning platform that reaches thousands of engineers, turning production experience into practical training. He combines hands-on engineering with product-minded decision making—knowing when to scale (and when not to)—and prefers staff/principal-level platform challenges over CRUD-only roles. Based in Córdoba, Argentina, he’s currently focused on high-impact technical leadership and platform work in distributed systems and security-conscious environments.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Member (MBCS), Ingeniería informática, Professional Member (MBCS), Ingeniería informática at BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT
Software Engineer degree, Information Technology, Software Engineer degree, Information Technology at Universidad Empresarial 'Siglo 21'
Advanced Java Developer, IT, Advanced Java Developer, IT at CISCO Academy
English, Spanish