Summary
Lucas Passalacqua is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and data platforms, currently shaping GenAI and critical banking data flows at Mercado Libre. He blends production-grade backend development in Go, Python and Java with practical GenAI integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini) and is designing Model Context Protocols and intelligent agents that directly impact business processes. His background includes high-availability microservices for credit risk engines and serverless, event-driven systems, giving him depth across both latency-sensitive and massively concurrent workloads. A longtime educator and mentor, he routinely drives architectural decisions while accelerating developer productivity through internal tooling and AI-assisted code quality practices. Based in San Carlos de Bariloche, he pairs hands-on engineering with a systems mindset rooted in early experience as a sysadmin and full-stack developer. He’s known for turning complex domain logic into reliable APIs and data pipelines that feed production ML/GenAI models.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Programador Universitario Ingeniería informática, Programador Universitario Ingeniería informática at Universidad Católica de Salta
Bachillerato en tecnología de la información Tecnología informática/Tecnología de sistemas informáticos, Bachillerato en tecnología de la información Tecnología informática/Tecnología de sistemas informáticos at Centro Educacion Media N 2 (C.E.M 2)
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