Fernando De La Cueva is a Ruby-focused senior developer and engineering leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web applications across payments, fintech, and high-growth SaaS. He blends individual contributor skills in Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript with team-building experience as a hiring manager, tech lead, scrum master and people manager, consistently driving quality, resilience and measurable product outcomes. Fernando has led cross-border teams at companies like Affirm and Returnly, designed APIs and payment integrations, and currently works on embedding money flows into operational processes. An active community organizer and mentor, he has run Rails and SpainJS conferences, released open source software, and brings a pragmatic focus on developer experience—favoring reproducible, container-based workflows and tooling like Docker and (neo)vim.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Primer ciclo, Ingeniería Suerior Informática, Primer ciclo, Ingeniería Suerior Informática at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Colegio "Estudio"
Técnico Superior, Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas, Técnico Superior, Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas at Juan de la Cierva
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