Summary
Salvador Montenegro is a lead software engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling products used by millions, currently shaping Nubank’s savings and debit account platform from Guadalajara. He moves comfortably between low-level systems, product prototyping, and large-scale web applications, and helped grow a former employer from its founding team into a 500+ engineer organization, influencing both architecture and culture. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he thrives in multicultural, cross-functional teams and empowers engineers to make better technical decisions through coaching and platform practices. He’s passionate about functional programming, modern DevOps, and product-driven design, and has experience stepping into product ownership and discovery when needed. Outside engineering he’s a photographer and avid music discoverer, a creative lens that informs his attention to detail and user-focused solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidad de Guanajuato
English, Spanish