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Esteban Canela

Backend Lead @ Rebill (YC W22) | Senior Backend Engineer

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province

Overview 

Esteban Canela is the Backend Lead at Rebill, a Y Combinator W22 company, showcasing expertise in technical project leadership and a strong skill set in Node.js, Go, Java, and other key technologies. With a background as a Team Lead and Technical Lead at top companies like Deel and Pomelo, Esteban has demonstrated a track record of success in leading backend engineering teams and driving impactful projects.

Work Experience 

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Rebill.com

  • Technical Lead

    2024 - Current

D

Deel

  • Team Lead

    2024 - 2024

  • Senior Backend Engineer

    2023 - 2024

P

Pomelo

  • Technical Lead

    2022 - 2023

    ▪ I led an engineering team to develop a Payment Processor from scratch in 9 months. I specialized in Payment Networks, EMV, HSM, 3DS, ISO8583, TCP/TLS and payments domain. ▪ I led the daily, planning and roadmap. Also, I interviewed +30 backend candidates to join the company. ▪ I developed a wide variety of microservices and integrations with Mastercard/Visa using Golang, Java on top of many AWS features (EKS, ECR, SQS/SNS, RDS, DMS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambdas, SES). ▪ I developed an Event Streaming tool that reads logs from the DB using DMS and sends them to a queue in order to transform and insert them in another DB. This development was used by Data and Engineering teams.

  • Senior Backend Engineer

    2021 - 2022

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Naranja X

  • Senior Backend Engineer

    2021 - 2021

    ▪ My main objective was to develop a set of microservices for the application’s Home. The priority here was to respond to our users quickly. For this, I designed a new architecture and developed, tested, and monitored those backend microservices using Node.js, Express, Golang, Datadog, Redis, PostgreSQL. ▪ I designed the architecture and built a core of services that help users pay their bills. I developed the integration with Western Union API focused on scalability and resilience.

  • Software Backend Engineer

    2020 - 2021

SG

Suplay Global

  • Cofounder & Software Engineer

    2019 - 2020

    ▪ Suplay was a B2B e-commerce in Argentina. I developed the whole e-commerce from scratch using Node.js, Golang, React.js, PostgreSQL.

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Hexacta

  • Software Engineer

    2019 - 2019

    ▪ I developed a set of Webscraping scripts using Javascript and Puppeteer to gather nuanced data from multiple banks. ▪ I implemented a reporting system for bill and credit card usage. ▪ We used PostgresSQL for data management and deployed them on AWS EC2 for scalable and reliable execution.

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Globant

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2018 - 2019

    ▪ I worked as a Full Stack Engineer for an internal project enabling seamless employee time-off requests. ▪ I used .NET Core for backend development, integrated with MS SQL for robust data management, and implemented FE with Angular 2+. Furthermore, I containerized the application using Docker and deployed it on AWS for scalable and efficient performance.

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