Leonardo Tusso
Lead Backend Engineer at N26
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLeonardo Tusso is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Barcelona with a 15+ year track record designing scalable, cloud-native systems for Fintech and E-commerce, and nine years of concentrated hands-on experience in modern banking platforms. He specializes in Java and Kotlin, microservices, and distributed architectures, and has repeatedly led monolith-to-microservice migrations while shaping resilient, high-performance backends. At N26 he progressed from Software Engineer to Lead Backend Engineer, combining technical ownership with mentoring and driving architectural best practices. He pairs pragmatic engineering—CI/CD, Docker, AWS—with a business-minded focus on aligning architecture to product needs and operational reliability. Notably, his career shows consistent involvement in both hands-on coding and team enablement, making him as comfortable troubleshooting production incidents as defining long-term platform strategy.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Universidad Nacional de La MatanzaAnalista de Sistemas, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Analista de Sistemas, Computer Programming, Specific Applications at Instituto técnico superior Santa Maria
English, Spanish, ItalianProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ltusso/crypto-trader
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 months
ltusso/simple-stock
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.