Romario López is a Lead Engineering Manager and YC alumnus with 11 years building resilient, scalable systems across fintech, healthtech, and startups. He’s co-founded a YC-backed startup, helped Nubank launch Mexico as an early hire, and improved webhook and observability pipelines at GitStart using Elixir and OpenTelemetry to cut processing and debugging times significantly. Skilled at aligning engineering execution with business goals, he’s led teams to raise deployment frequency, reduce PR cycle times, and tighten security and compliance for mission-critical platforms. Based in Mexico City, he blends hands-on backend and infrastructure expertise with product-minded leadership and a proven ability to ship rapid CI/CD-driven releases across international expansions. An underrated strength is turning operational pain points into measurable engineering wins—often by building small, dependable tooling that scales across teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
S21 Batch, S21 Batch at Y Combinator
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Contributions:66 commits, 20 PRs, 82 pushes in 5 months
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Romario López - Lead Engineering Manager at MedMe Health