Matías Aguirre

Senior Software Engineer

Introduction

I'm an Uruguayan software developer with over 20 years of experience ranging from developments for home automation, embedded systems, medium enterprises intranet's software and SaaS solutions.

Open-source enthusiast, many of my projects and contributions are available on GitHub. Currently I'm focused on web based solutions with a particular interest on Python based projects.

A many hat engineer with experience on Linux administration, cloud-based deployments, Docker and Kubernetes technologies, many times filling on devops roles.

Skills

Full Stack

Shipped production features end-to-end across backend and frontend.

Software Architect

Redesigned systems to drop servers-based deployment to containerized archiectures, improved scalability and performance to met SLAs.

Team Lead

Led teams of 4+ engineers, aiming to improving delivery and team performance.

Engineering Manager

Managed engineering teams, helped to grow headcount, coordinate work to deliver quarter requirements.

Projects

Cloudbox

Local emulator for Google Cloud Platform services (like LocalStack, but for GCP), covering Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Firestore, Secret Manager, Cloud Tasks, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Logging, Cloud Scheduler and Cloud KMS, with CLI tools mirroring gsutil/gcloud.

Github

Subtitio.ai

AI-powered subtitle translation service for video localization, helping creators and media teams reach global audiences.

Website

python-social-auth

Python application that aims to ease the authentication and authorization using third party mechanism.

Github

django-social-auth

Django app that aims to ease the authentication and authorization using third party mechanism.

Github

CubeJS

Cube is the semantic layer for building data applications.

Github PR

django-model-i18n

Django app aiming to ease content I18N.

Github

fspotfs

FUSE filesystem to access F-Spot photos album.

Github

IPChat

Peer to peer, serverless, easy to use chat program.

Savannah

Tech

  • Python
  • Ruby
  • C#
  • C / C++
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • Shell scripting
  • HTML
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • Less / SASS
  • ReactJS
  • Node
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • Docker (swarm)
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Git
  • Github
  • Gitlab
  • Github Actions
  • Jenkins
  • TravisCI
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Heroku
  • Linux
  • OpenBSD
  • FreeBSD
  • OSX
  • Traefik
  • Caddy
  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • Github Codespaces
  • VirtualBox
  • Datadog
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Logstash
  • Filebeat
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Langchain
  • Langraph
  • Langfuse

Experience

Feb 2022
Employee Full time
Medallia Inc.
Engineering manager. Full stack software development.
Continuing with the work from MonkeyLearn, working on AI and ML based solutions. Software architect, devops engineering, engineering manager.
Aug 2021
Contractor Part time
Anomali
Backend software development.
Backend solutions based on Python providing scalable products for big data signal processing.
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Contractor Full time
MonkeyLearn
Full stack software development.
Full stack solutions with special focus on backend ensuring scalable and reliable solutions for machine learning operations. Contributed to infrastructure migrations and adoption of docker based deployments on orchestrated clusters. Filled on SRE role and implemented disaster recoveries processes.
2018
Contractor Freelance
IBL Education
Full stack software development
Provided solutions and support for projects based on the EdX platform and Blockchain (Ethereum) technology.
2011 - 2019
Contractor Full time
Citrusbyte / Theorem
Full stack software engineer
Provided solutions for many projects with a varying software stack (Ruby, Python, C#)
2012
Contractor Freelance
Geekatoo
Full stack software development and support
Support, maitenance and small features development on Ruby on Rails project.
2011 - 2013
Contractor Freelance
Scrapinghub
Full stack software development
2010
Contractor Freelance
Obnob
Full stack software development
2007 - 2011
Employee Full time
Insophia
Full stack software development
2006 - 2007
Employee Full time
Domotica S.R.L.
Full stack software development and solution architect.
2006
Internship
ORT Uruguay University
Professor assistant. Subject "Low level programming - Linux".
2005 - 2007
Contractor Freelance
Clicking "Equipo de Comunicación"
Full stack software development
2005
Internship
ORT Uruguay University
Course material and topics definition. Subject "Low level programming - Linux".
2005
Internship
ORT Uruguay University
Professor assistant. Subject "Low level programming - Linux".
2004 - 2007
Employee Full time
Prodie S.A. - IT department
Full stack software development
2004 - 2005
Internship
ORT Uruguay University
Professor assistant. Material compilation and organization. Subject "Low level programming - Linux".
2003 - 2004
X Congreso Nacional de Arqueología - "La Arqueología Uruguaya ante los desafíos del nuevo siglo"
Design and development of the multimedia publication. ISBN 9974-7811-0-8.
2003
Technical attendance to bachelors Leonel Cabrera and Isabel Barreto in the elaboration of the presentation "Trabajo... el de otros tiempos...!!", presented at 2 Jornadas Universitarias Multidisciplinarias sobre las Transformaciones en el Mundo del Trabajo.
2002 - 2004
Asociación Uruguaya de Antropología.
Simple website development and administration.

Publications

Protecting a Python Codebase

A 3 parts article product of the research for solutions to protect a project implemented in Python.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Docker on FreeBSD

Local development environment based on Docker running on a FreeBSD host.

Docker on FreeBSD

Education

2003
ORT Uruguay University
Computer Engineering
2000 - 2002
Militar high school Gral. Artigas
Highschool, option Científico - Ingeniería
1997 - 1999
No 1 high school, La Paz, Canelones, Uruguay
Highschool

Congresses and seminaries

Nov, 2013
Speaker
Pycon Uruguay
django-social-auth is dead, long live python-social-auth
Jul, 2008
Guest speaker
Upgrade class, Aplicaciones web avanzadas (Web 2.0)
Python and Django as web development tools. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República.
Aug, 2006
Speaker
Debian Day
User Mode Linux ./linux