Summary
Mario Aquino is a Software Engineering Technical Leader with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building and guiding teams at scale, currently leading engineering efforts at Cisco. He blends a growth-oriented engineering mindset with practical leadership—continually adopting new technologies and paradigms to improve how teams solve problems. Active in the developer community, he helps organize Strange Loop and runs St. Louis’s Lambda Lounge, bringing functional and dynamic language ideas into mainstream engineering conversations. Known for pairing and mentoring, Mario credits his evolution to collaboration and reflective practice, and he occasionally shares his insights at conferences.
18 years of coding experience