Jorge Praena is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations across Europe and Latin America, currently leading engineering at dLocal from Barcelona. He combines hands-on technical mastery in architecture, cloud and integrations with strong agile delivery and coaching skills, consistently turning complex legacy systems into evolutionary microservices platforms. At Thoughtworks he influenced CxO-level strategy and supported business development while mentoring senior leads, demonstrating rare fluency between technical decisions and commercial outcomes. Early career projects include migrating critical public utility and insurance systems to modern stacks, showing an ability to deliver under strict time and regulatory constraints. Jorge is as comfortable growing teams from scratch as he is optimizing established ones, favoring pragmatic, test-first approaches and pairing to spread knowledge. Colleagues value his blend of strategic thinking, client-centricity and hands-on problem solving that makes technology a driver of business value.
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Jorge Praena - Software Engineering Leader at dLocal