Summary
Nicolás Hormazábal is a Director of Engineering based in the Greater Barcelona area with 12 years of experience leading teams that build high-throughput backend services and observability pipelines at New Relic. He transitioned from hands-on roles—Android tech lead and backend architect—to management while retaining deep systems design instincts and a taste for low-level coding, recently exploring Rust in his spare time. His background blends academic research in multi-agent systems and AI with product-facing engineering for large-scale notifications, logging and APM infrastructures. Comfortable across Java, C#, and client-side/mobile stacks, he excels at aligning cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, distributed systems. Colleagues appreciate that he still codes selectively and brings research-driven thinking to practical engineering trade-offs. His career arc shows a continual curiosity—from agent-based research to production-grade services—making him a leader who balances strategy, architecture and developer empathy.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer Computer Science, Computer Engineer Computer Science at Universidad Diego Portales
PhD Computer Tecnology, PhD Computer Tecnology at Universitat de Girona
English, Spanish, French, Catalan