Summary
Federico Martinez is a hands-on technology leader and current Chief Technology Officer based in Sweden with 12 years of experience building scalable, event-driven systems for finance and payments across Europe. He has progressed from senior Python engineer to engineering manager and system architect, driving multi-market transactions infrastructure, asynchronous microservices, and integrations with banks and payment providers (ISO 20022, Stripe, Swish). Federico blends deep technical ownership (AsyncIO Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, DynamoDB/MySQL) with people leadership—hiring, coaching and aligning teams to product and business goals. He has a track record of performance-driven optimizations (significant throughput and cost improvements) and building developer-friendly CI/CD and observability practices. Originally trained in industrial engineering and communication design, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused perspective and an entrepreneurial streak from founding and leading engineering teams in earlier ventures.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Industrial Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Industrial Engineering at Universidad de La Sabana
Communication Design, Communication Design at Billy Blue College of Design
Spanish, English, Swedish