Summary
Marco Lotto is a Tech Lead with 11 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems across high-traffic platforms, currently leading engineering at Mercado Libre in Buenos Aires. He has deep hands-on expertise in microservices, cloud-native deployments (Kubernetes), and data-heavy architectures using Java, Go, Cassandra, Postgres, Kafka and orchestration tools like Netflix Conductor. Marco has repeatedly moved from individual contributor to technical leadership—most recently a Staff Engineer at Medallia where he expanded influence beyond his team to drive cross-team architecture and delivery improvements. He prioritizes reliability and safety for customer-impacting processes, building automated pipelines, metrics and rollback strategies for complex multi-datacenter deployments. A collaborative mentor who emphasizes respect and clear communication, he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on projects that create measurable impact. His background in both fintech and large-scale e-commerce APIs gives him uncommon fluency in balancing product needs with extreme scalability and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnico electro-mecanico, Tecnico electro-mecanico at Instituto Dr. J. Segundo Fernandez
Ingeniería Ingeniería informática, Ingeniería Ingeniería informática at Facultad de Ingenieria UBA
English, Spanish