Summary
Gastón Santoalla is an Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, scalable backend systems. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Scala and Java from roles at Delivery Hero and Despegar.com, where he worked on core flight search engines and distributed services using Akka, Cassandra and related tooling. A lifelong learner and former university teaching assistant in programming paradigms, he combines practical production experience with a passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing. Interested in machine learning and AI, he pairs systems-level thinking with curiosity about emerging ML technologies, helping teams bridge research and production.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Escuela Técnica N°35 "Ingeniero Eduardo Latzina"
Information Systems Engineer, Computer Engineering, Information Systems Engineer, Computer Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English