José López
Mentor at Endeavor
Pichincha, Ecuador
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé López is a payments and fintech engineering leader with 11 years of experience building bank-grade platforms and high-leverage teams across Latin America. As co-founder and former CTO of Kushki, he scaled engineering to 500+ talent across five countries and delivered architectures that handled tens of thousands of concurrent transactions, helping the company reach unicorn status. He has since led product and engineering functions as CTO at Finerio Connect and mentored startups at Endeavor, combining product strategy with security, DevOps, and data disciplines. A systems engineer by training with an MBA, José pairs hands-on backend work—demonstrated by TypeScript improvements to the popular middy middleware for AWS Lambda—with executive experience in remote team leadership. He is known for aligning business roadmaps with scalable, high-availability systems and for turning complex regulatory and performance requirements into practical, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería en Sistemas y Tecnología de la Informacion, Tecnología de la Información, Ingeniería en Sistemas y Tecnología de la Informacion, Tecnología de la Información at Pontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorMaster in Business Administration especialización en Marketing, Económicas, Master in Business Administration especialización en Marketing, Económicas at Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
aws-lambda10
typescript10
middleware10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
javascript9
nodejs8
babeljs6
asynchronous6
html6
ajax6
npm6
package-json6
callstack6
apache6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
middyjs/middy
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda 🛵
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:José primarily focused on enhancing the TypeScript type definitions for the middyjs/middy project. They introduced and refined types for core components like middleware, the `IMiddy` interface, and the `IHandlerLambda` interface, specifically improving type safety and usability. The user also addressed export issues and updated AWS Lambda types, including generics, to enhance the project's compatibility and developer experience. These changes reflect a focus on the maintainability and type safety of the middy middleware engine.
aws-lambdaserverlessawslambdapowertools
Kushki/kushki-woocommerce
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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