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Ariel Piñeiro

Head of Engineering · Senior IT Expert

Building scalable backend platforms for 20+ years  ·  Barcelona 🇪🇸

🐹 Go Expert ☁️ Kubernetes 🏆 Microsoft MVP 📜 Scrum Master 🌍 Open to Remote

🚀 About me

From developer to engineering leader — always with hands on the keyboard.

Background

  • Developer → Architect → Tech Lead → CTO → Head of Engineering
  • Go expert (~60% of repos), polyglot in Java, C#, Kotlin, Python, Groovy
  • Architecture: microservices, event-driven, REST/gRPC, SQL & NoSQL
  • Full Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Cloud lifecycle
  • Currently leading agentic/AI automation at Remitee

Looking for

  • Head of Engineering · VP Engineering · Director
  • Principal / Staff · Engineering Manager
  • Go-heavy platforms at scale
  • Remote or Hybrid · Based in Barcelona, Spain
  • Spanish (native) · English (professional)
20+
Years of experience
130+
Public repositories
65
Go repositories
60
People led at peak
10+
Years teaching
1500+
Hours coded (WakaTime)

🛠 Tech Stack

Core technologies used in production at scale.

Languages

GoJavaC# KotlinPythonGroovySQL

Backend & APIs

gRPCRESTSpring .NETKafkaRabbitMQ

Data

PostgreSQLMySQLRedis MongoDBElasticsearchSQL Server

Cloud & DevOps

DockerKubernetesAWS TerraformGitHub ActionsJenkinsNginx

Observability

GrafanaPrometheus New RelicOpenTelemetry

Leadership

ScrumAgileTDD DDDTeam ManagementHiring

💼 Career

Highlights from 20+ years building and leading engineering teams.

Head of Money Transfer
🏦 Remitee
Dec 2025 → Present

Own the Money Transfer domain & Integrations, leading Managers and Tech Leads. Driving reengineering of the Money Transfer system and agentic/AI-based automation projects for Operations.

Senior Technical Lead / Head of Backend
🐾 Grupo IskayPet (Tiendanimal · Kiwoko · Kivet · Clinicanimal)
May 2022 → Dec 2025

Head of Backend for the Digital Hub. Designed cross-cutting reusable modules, observability & telemetry stack, infrastructure components (auth, caching, messaging), DevOps (CI/CD, IaC, containers) and developer tooling.

Sr. IT Expert / Product Development Manager
🛒 Mercado Libre
Mar 2016 → Nov 2021

Mercado Shops, Loyalty, Recommendations, Deals. Led teams of up to 60 people with 6 direct reports. Stack: Java, Kotlin, Go, Angular, Grails/Groovy, Spark, Elasticsearch, MySQL, K/V stores, Nginx.

CTO / Development Manager / Technical Leader
🚗 DE AUTOS SA
2012 → 2016

Full technology strategy ownership. RESTful API with OAuth2, scaled team +400%, reduced incidents from 50→5/month, 0.005% error rate (NewRelic), ~20ms avg response time, 80% automation coverage.

Technical Leader / Architect
🌐 Globant
2010 → 2012

Architect and tech lead for Deloitte, YPF, Coca-Cola and Kimberly Clark. Roadmap, customer communication and internal tech training.

Instructor
🎓 EducacionIT
2011 → 2022

Taught Microservices, Messaging, TDD, Design Patterns & SOLID, Scrum/Agile, C#, Java, and Functional Programming for 10+ years.

🤝 Let's connect

Scaling a platform? Building an engineering org? Let's talk.