Gorka Etxeberria
Lead Backend Engineer at N26
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGorka Etxeberria is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Barcelona with 15 years building resilient, scalable backend systems across fintech and hospitality tech. He progressed from co-founding startups and leading engineering teams to senior and now lead roles at N26, bringing product-minded engineering and hands-on architecture experience. His background combines a formal computer engineering education with data science training from Johns Hopkins, enabling him to bridge systems design and data-driven decision making. As a former CTO and co-founder he pairs organizational leadership with deep technical ownership, comfortable moving between code, infrastructure, and roadmap trade-offs. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers responsibility for outcomes—choosing the hard path of end-to-end delivery rather than fragmenting accountability. His track record shows a pattern of scaling teams and systems through pragmatic engineering and entrepreneurial grit.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Specialization, Data Science Specialization at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthIngeniería Ingeniería informática, Ingeniería Ingeniería informática at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
English, Basque, Spanish
Github Skills (159)
dns-record10
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wordpress10
api10
helm10
kubernetes10
java10
discovery10
spring-boot10
protocols10
spring10
vmware10
tcp10
dynamodb9
rest9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
grupo21/Dummy-Compilator
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:126 commits in 2 months
gmaiztegi/security-strategy-essentials
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 day
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