Summary
Nicolás Ottonello is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience delivering scalable web and streaming platforms, currently contributing to Shopify from Montevideo. He blends full-stack expertise—React/Redux frontends, Python/Django backends, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch—with hands-on work in architecture, API redesign, and splitting monoliths into services to improve performance and scalability. Nicolás has led teams and promoted Agile/Scrum practices, acted as Scrum Master, and worked closely with infra to containerize deployments (Docker/Swarm) and centralize monitoring with ELK. His background includes Salesforce customizations and integrations as well as Java enterprise systems for financial clients, reflecting versatility across domains. He holds advanced studies in Software Engineering and often focuses on pragmatic optimizations like caching strategies and database access improvements that tangibly reduce latency and cost.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maestría en Ingeniería de Software Ingeniería en Computación, Maestría en Ingeniería de Software Ingeniería en Computación at Universidad de la República
Bachiller Tecnológico en Informática Informática, Bachiller Tecnológico en Informática Informática at UTU - Dirección General de Educación Técnico - Profesional
Spanish, English