Federico Espinosa

Federico Espinosa is a linguist, educator, and EdTech leader based in the United Kingdom.

He is currently the Vice President of Learning Design and Content Operations at Busuu, an online language learning platform where he leads a team of learning designers, UX researchers, teacher operations managers and oversees the localisation function for the business - while guiding the product vision and roadmap from a pedagogical perspective.

He holds an MA with Distinction in Applied Linguistics from The University of Birmingham where he focused on the practical applications of cognitive linguistic frameworks to autonomous online language learning, and previously specialised his DELTA qualification around data-driven learning (in a time before GenAI).

Federico has previously led the Education Team at Mrs Wordsmith, implemented adaptive learning technologies with Knewton, and was a teacher and teacher trainer for over 10 years in the USA, Guinea, Liberia, France, the Czech Republic, and Lebanon. In his free time he is an amateur classical musician, avid traveler, scuba diver, and main human to a fluffy little dog named Spike. 

Federico has joined the LinkyThinks board to help grow & scale our new Downloadables platform, guiding the product vision and roadmap from a pedagogical perspective.