Summary
Santiago Cordoba is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience building backend systems and payment infrastructure at scale. He has shipped high-throughput services at Mercado Libre handling millions of transactions daily, worked on authentication and microservice architecture at Santander Tecnología, and currently contributes to production backend systems at FORM3. Proficient in Go, Java, Node and cloud-native stacks (AWS, Docker, DynamoDB), he specializes in resilient, high-performance APIs and distributed systems. A self-taught engineer with an MBA, he combines hands-on engineering with product and architectural thinking, and has a background that ranges from real-time chat and device ecosystems to payments. Not obviously visible from his roles, he taught introductory game development to schoolchildren, reflecting a long-standing interest in making technology accessible.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Economía y gestión de las organizaciones, High school, Economía y gestión de las organizaciones, High school at Instituto Privado San Marino
Technical Degree in Software Development, Computer Software Engineering, Technical Degree in Software Development, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad de La Punta
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Universidad Blas Pascal
Spanish, English