Luiz Hespanha
Principal Software Engineer at Nubank
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLuiz Hespanha is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 16+ years building distributed systems and over two decades in software, currently shaping core banking infrastructure at Nubank. He brings deep functional and JVM expertise—Clojure, Scala, Java and Haskell—applied to data-centric platforms using Datomic, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS. A technical lead turned principal, he has shipped production systems across fintech, e‑commerce and ad tech, and champions pragmatic practices like CI, TDD and XP. Notably, he pairs advanced academic training (master’s in Computer Science from USP) with hands‑on system design, often blending research-grade languages into large‑scale production environments.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Extension Course Complex Data Mining, Extension Course Complex Data Mining at Extecamp Unicampbachelor Computer Science, bachelor Computer Science at FEImaster Computer Science, master Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, German
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Github Skills (33)
thin9
finagle8
async7
jce7
low-level7
client-library7
apache-kafka6
http-server6
clojure6
client-server6
padding6
des6
http-kit6
clojurescript5
jca5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nubank/finagle-clojure
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
A thin Clojure wrapper around Finagle
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 months
finaglethinclojurescriptclojure-wrapperclojure
luizhespanha/maratona-programacao
Nov 2009 - Jul 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 4 years 8 months
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