Gisela De La Villa
Engineering Manager at Trade Me
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolGisela De La Villa is a people-first engineering manager with 10 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams across education, healthcare, government and finance. She combines deep hands-on engineering—refactoring legacy systems, designing AWS serverless architectures, and shipping Lambda-based solutions—with strategic leadership that ties growth frameworks to clear role definitions. At Springload she grew and retained a 30-person organisation, introduced competency matrices and centralised upgrade processes that empowered juniors to lead maintenance work and reduced operational costs. She is adept at translating complex architecture proposals into non-technical narratives that win executive buy-in while staying close to code and code review. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Gisela balances commercial pragmatism with compassion and psychological safety to drive sustained delivery and low attrition. An unusual strength is her track record solving data sovereignty and region-isolation challenges through pragmatic hybrid designs that preserved scalability and compliance.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniera en Informática, Computer Science, Ingeniera en Informática, Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AiresBilingual Baccalaureate, Bilingual Baccalaureate at Goethe Schule
English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, maori
Github Skills (39)
recaptcha10
identifier9
captcha9
django9
guid9
python8
cms8
silverstripe7
wagtail7
content-management6
spring-boot6
spring-data6
django-cms6
spring6
installer5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gdelavil/silvershop-core
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
SilverShop is an e-commerce shopping cart module for the SilverStripe CMS
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
cmsshoppingecommercecommerceopencart
springload/public-keys
Jun 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:25 reviews, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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