Summary
Francisco Orduña is a pragmatic software development leader and Senior Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building backend systems across gaming, cybersecurity, e-commerce and fintech. Currently a Software Development Engineer III at Expedia Group, he has recently led Open Banking and payment-related backend squads at Zopa and improved shipping performance at Shopify, consistently delivering measurable product and performance gains. He excels in Java and Kotlin ecosystems, cloud-native data pipelines (Kafka, Confluent Cloud), and pragmatic migrations (SQL to DynamoDB) that improved scalability and reliability. A certified Scrum Master and practitioner of Nonviolent Communication, he blends strong technical mentorship with facilitation skills that reduce friction and accelerate delivery. He has a track record of practical automation wins—test automation, CI pipeline optimisations and hotfix tooling—that cut manual effort and sped releases. Based in Geneva, he pairs deep enterprise Java roots with modern cloud-native practices and a continuous-improvement mindset.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Postgrado en Metodologías Ágiles Agile, Postgrado en Metodologías Ágiles Agile at La Salle BCN
Spanish, Catalan, English