Summary
Sergio Magnacco is a Principal Software Engineer in Argentina with 10 years of experience delivering scalable, data-driven systems. At Despegar, he leads architecture and delivery for price prediction and deal discovery across multi-product caches and landing workflows, leveraging Scala, Akka and HA microservices to train and serve ML models. He blends hands-on engineering with a coach mindset, mentoring through TDD, refactoring and Clean Code practices, and guiding teams with a lead-by-example style. His tech stack spans Elasticsearch, ScyllaDB, Redis, Python and the ML data science stack (Weka, etc.), reflecting a strong aptitude for end-to-end data pipelines and production ML. A certified Scrum Master and agile coach trained under Scrum Alliance, he prioritizes collaboration, iterative delivery, and strong software craftsmanship. Based in Argentina, he is exploring Rust while continuing to work with Scala/Kotlin/Go ecosystems, driven by a curiosity for new languages and scalable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
CSM, Agile, Scrum, Certified Scrum Master, CSM, Agile, Scrum, Certified Scrum Master at Scrum Alliance - Alan Cyment
Cangallo Schule
Engineer鈥檚 Degree, Information Technologies, Software Engineer, Engineer鈥檚 Degree, Information Technologies, Software Engineer at Universidad Tecnol贸gica Nacional
PMI Course - Project Management, PMI Course - Project Management at Instituto de Tecnolog铆a ORT
English, Spanish, German