Santiago Bernal
Head Of Engineering at Cashea
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSantiago Bernal is a Head of Engineering with 11 years of experience building and scaling payments and transactional platforms across Latin America and Europe. He has led organizations from hands-on backend engineering to directing 90+ engineer teams, shaping roadmaps, hiring practices and resilient cloud-native architectures using Java, Go, Python and AWS serverless patterns. His career highlights include early technical leadership at a unicorn fintech where he influenced core architecture and company-wide processes, and later steering technology strategy at senior executive level. Holding a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from UPC Barcelona, he blends formal AI training with deep operational experience in high-throughput systems. Santiago is comfortable moving between code, architecture and people operations, and often focuses on making engineering orgs predictable and scalable rather than just shipping features. Based in Barcelona and originally from Venezuela, he brings a multicultural perspective to building global products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at UCAB - Universidad Católica Andrés BelloUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
del10
java8
php8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sbernal93/idss-project
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Project for IDSS
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
sbernal93/imas-jade-project
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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