Santiago Leiva
Software Engineer at Mercado Libre
Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Leiva is a software engineer with almost 10 years of experience building and maintaining microservices-based systems across fintech and e-commerce platforms. He has shipped backend services in Java/Quarkus and Spring Boot, worked with event-driven stacks (RabbitMQ, Kafka, EventStoreDB) and relational and NoSQL datastores, and contributed to front-end and mobile efforts using TypeScript and React/React Native. Currently at Mercado Libre, he previously led backend and full-stack initiatives for payment and metadata platforms at Redbee, Bigdogs and others, often taking responsibility for incident resolution and feature delivery. He also teaches persistence concepts and programming fundamentals, reflecting a practical emphasis on quality, testing and performance. Colleagues know him for bridging design discussions and hands-on implementation, and for bringing experience from both legacy Java systems and modern containerized deployments. Based in Vicente López, Argentina, he combines steady production experience with a penchant for pragmatic system design.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnicatura en Desarrollo Web Tecnología informática/Tecnología de sistemas informáticos, Tecnicatura en Desarrollo Web Tecnología informática/Tecnología de sistemas informáticos at Universidad Nacional de La Matanza
Github Skills (1)
javascript2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
santiagoleiva/santiagoleiva.github.io
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Personal page
Contributions:12 PRs, 34 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 10 months
javascriptreactpersonal-page
santiagoleiva/slack-banner-generator
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Banner generator for slack messages
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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