Summary
Luis Cuesta is a senior software engineer and experienced engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on development and 6+ years leading, mentoring, recruiting, and growing teams across Spain, the UK, and Brazil. He combines full-stack technical depth—Django, React, iOS/Swift and mobile architecture—with product-focused delivery, having owned SLOs, OKRs and cross-functional squad outcomes at TravelPerk and 21 Buttons. A servant leader who stays hands-on, Luis has run large technical hiring processes, managed performance and promotions, and implemented platform improvements like automated release trains and security features (certificate pinning, JWT refresh). He is comfortable across Agile and Waterfall models and has repeatedly balanced shipping features with improving architecture and engineering health. Based in Barcelona, he pairs formal study in IT project management and computer engineering with practical experience integrating IoT, mobile, and backend systems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic coach who values measurable impact and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Web Engineering Research, Masters in Web Engineering Research at Universidad de Oviedo
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Canisius University
Spanish, English, Catalan