Johan Mena is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building and scaling high-impact backend systems, primarily in advertising and real-time platforms. Over a multi-year tenure at Uber he progressed from Software Engineer to Staff, driving cost reductions and revenue growth on multi-million dollar projects. He’s fluent in Scala and Java, comfortable operating in Linux-based production environments, and skilled at simplifying complex distributed systems for reliability and efficiency. Prior roles at PulsePoint and Goldman Sachs sharpened his expertise in low-latency ad tech and financial systems respectively. Known for a dry sense of humor and a practical mindset, he pairs hands-on coding with architectural leadership to move teams from prototypes to production-grade services.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Columbia University
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