Summary
Santiago Tortosa is a Senior Software Engineer and mathematician with 10 years of experience building backend systems and leading teams across fintech, betting, e-commerce and research domains from Barcelona. He currently serves as Team Lead & Tech Lead at Kantox, architecting Elixir-based DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing solutions for Dynamic Hedging® and FX/hedge accounting. Santiago has a strong track record of shipping microservice architectures in Elixir—designing integrations, custom Ecto adapters, GraphQL layers and Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines—plus open-source libraries like sofa and warden that reveal a penchant for pragmatic infrastructure. His background in computational neuroscience research and a math degree give him a rigorous, model-driven approach to complex system design and risk-sensitive domains. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a tech lead, he blends deep implementation skills with product-minded architectural thinking. Based in the Greater Barcelona area, he also has entrepreneurial experience co-founding local community events, showing an interest in people and ecosystem building beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
English, Spanish, Catalan