Summary
Federico Roasio is a Director of Engineering at Mercado Libre with over a decade of experience designing and scaling mission-critical payment systems across Latin America. Trained as an electrical engineer with a thesis on integrated navigation for UAVs, he blends embedded-systems rigor with cloud-native backend expertise in Go, C, Java, PHP and JavaScript. At Mercado Pago he grew and organized teams from dozens to 125+ engineers while driving ~100% YoY growth in transaction volume and ensuring consistency for billions in payments. He’s passionate about software architecture, Domain Driven Design and event-driven systems, and co-organizes the largest Golang meetup in Latin America. An experienced instructor and recruiter, he brings a track record of building high-performing teams, innovative hiring practices and a strong culture-first leadership style.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineer Embedded Systems Signal Processing Automatic Control, Electronic Engineer Embedded Systems Signal Processing Automatic Control at University of Buenos Aires
Electro-mechanical Tecnician, Electro-mechanical Tecnician at Instituto Técnico San Juan Bautista
English, Spanish, Portuguese