Nelida Velazquez
Senior Software Engineer at Staffbase
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNelida Velazquez is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend services, event-driven architectures, web and mobile apps across Mexico, the US, and Germany. She blends technical depth in Kotlin, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails and cloud platforms with a people-first leadership style that emphasizes psychological safety, knowledge sharing, and clear communication. Nelida has led high-impact projects from Domino’s iOS SDK and voice ordering to backend systems that drove a 70% revenue increase for a client, and she’s comfortable guiding incident response, refactors, and observability improvements. Colleagues know her as a steady, intentional leader who turns complex problems into manageable work while mentoring engineers and fostering cross-team learning initiatives like Tech Book Club. Beyond engineering, she’s passionate about art, teaching, and tacos—evidence of a pragmatic, curious mindset that values culture as much as code.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
keychain8
maven6
swift6
json-serialization6
android6
nsurlsession6
spring-boot6
instagram-api6
security6
ios6
tvos4
uri4
taco4
watchos4
delicious3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tolkiana/TacoApp
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:23 PRs, 39 pushes, 20 branches in 10 months
tacodeliciousrecipiesfluttertacos
tolkiana/spotify-player
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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