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Franco Albornoz

Senior Scala Developer

€550/day
Berlin, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Franco

Experienced Scala developer with over 8 years of hands-on work across travel, e-commerce, and advertising industries. Skilled in building and optimizing data‑intensive, real‑time systems, with a strong focus on functional programming principles. Specializes in writing high-quality, maintainable Scala code using ZIO and its rich ecosystem. Passionate about designing software that is not only efficient but also resilient, observable, and easy to evolve. Committed to improving existing architectures and crafting new solutions that balance performance, scalability, and developer productivity.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Despegar
    Infrastructure Developer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    August 2017 - July 2019 (1 year and 11 months)
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    At despegar I was an infrastructure developer. Creating tooling for other developers in the company to provision hardware on our on-premises datacenter as well as on AWS, facilitating application deployment, exposing API's to either internal or external clients, provisioning and operating databases such as cassandra, mongo db or postgresql.
    All of our applications were written in scala, using Akka actors and/or the Play Framework. We managed critical applications, and were responsible for the operational stability of our services
    Scala Akka Play framework AWS PostgreSQL
  • Ordermetrics
    Software Developer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    August 2019 - May 2020 (9 months)
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    At Ordermetrics we were providing e-commerce metcirs for Shopify, Woocomerce and other e-commerce platforms. I was mostly focused on integrating with external API's, consuming facebook, snapchat and adsense api's among others, to produce accurate ad performance metrics to our clients.
    Our tech stack was Scala, with PlayFramework. We worked closely with our product manager to bring features and performance improvements for our clients.
    Facebook Marketing Play framework Scala Google AdSense Shopify
  • LiveIntent
    Software Developer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    May 2020 - Today (6 years and 1 month)
    Berlin, Germany
    At LiveIntent we provide identity services to our clients, empowering publishers to monetize their newsletters, advertisers to reach target audiences.
    All this is accomplished with a heavy duty realtime stack of applications which consumes millions of events per hour. We use Scala, ZIO and Kinesis as our main technologies.
    Scala ZIO AWS Kinesis Akka PostgreSQL

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