Summary
Ignacio Arces is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building microservices, stream processing, and Big Data platforms, currently leading engineering efforts at Nubank from Guadalajara, Mexico. He blends practical leadership with deep implementation skills in Java, Scala, Groovy and JavaScript, having architected analytics and high-throughput systems using Kafka, Spark, Cassandra and Hadoop. Ignacio has repeatedly served as a tech lead—designing APIs, SOA/microservice architectures and mission-critical e-commerce and analytics platforms—while staying actively involved in coding and team mentoring. He favors simple, elegant solutions to complex distributed systems problems and is particularly drawn to reactive and streaming architectures where operational robustness matters. An uncommon strength is his continuity across startups and large organizations, bringing both agility-minded delivery and production-grade engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at IPN - ESCOM - Escuela Superior de Cómputo
IPN - CECyT 9 - Juan de Dios Bátiz Paredes
English