Summary
Nicolas Falconi is a Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade backend systems across fintech, health, and education domains. He holds an MS in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an Industrial Civil Engineering degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with exchange studies at The University of Hong Kong—an unusual mix that blends engineering rigor with business perspective. Currently focused on high-performance concurrent applications with Elixir, Ecto, Phoenix and AWS, he has previously implemented serverless microservices, real-time scrapers, fraud detection pipelines and payment orchestration migrations at scale. Nicolas is skilled at reducing technical debt and automating workflows (notably cutting test times by 80% in a prior role) and enjoys tackling reverse-API engineering and data retrieval challenges that power real-time financial services. He thrives in collaborative teams and consistently pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking to deliver measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Civil Engineering, Information Technology, Industrial Civil Engineering, Information Technology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering track ICT Engineering, Business and Innovation., Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering track ICT Engineering, Business and Innovation. at Politecnico di Milano
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Spanish, English, Italian