Summary
Franco Gotusso is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Barcelona with over a decade of experience building and scaling SaaS products and payments infrastructure. He combines hands-on expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript frontends with solid backend and ops skills (Node, GraphQL, AWS), and comfortably alternates between coding and people leadership. At TravelPerk he grew and now leads 20+ engineers across four payments teams responsible for checkout, subscriptions, vendor payments and fraud prevention. His background includes founding and scaling startups (CTO/co‑founder role at Remi.so) and bootstrapping an e‑commerce venture, demonstrating a bias for rapid experimentation, deployment automation and pragmatic tech choices. Known for improving engineering processes and remote team culture, he brings a product-first mindset that translates business problems into maintainable technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at Universitat d'Alacant
English, Spanish