Alejandro Arias
Director Of Engineering at LegalCloud
Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Arias is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling software teams and products across Latin America, currently serving as Director of Engineering at PedidosYa and founder/CTO of LegalCloud. He combines deep hands-on expertise in .NET, Java/Kotlin, mobile (iOS/Android), cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), search technologies (Solr, Elasticsearch) and containerized architectures with proven delivery in both startup and enterprise contexts. Alejandro has led cross-functional engineering organizations, driven platform and IoT initiatives, and taught programming—bringing strong mentoring and operational discipline to fast-moving teams. He is comfortable designing systems end-to-end, from UML/OpenAPI architecture to complex SQL and monitoring with New Relic/Datadog, and has practical experience with Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft Cognitive Services and IBM Watson integrations. An uncommon strength is his background in computer forensics and academic teaching, which contributes to a pragmatic, security-minded approach to engineering and product design. Based in Uruguay, he blends a practitioner’s technical depth with executive experience launching legal tech and marketplace platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UTNUniversidad de Buenos Aires / UBALicenciado en Administración de Empresas Informáticas, Licenciado en Administración de Empresas Informáticas at Colegio Universitario IES
English
Github Skills (17)
mercadopago10
documentation9
chess8
functional-programming7
nodejs7
scala7
lichess7
mongodb7
typescript6
neo4j5
grails5
hibernate4
groovy4
sql3
object-mapping3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AleAnonMallo/SAPo-Android
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
AleAnonMallo/devsite-docs
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Mercado Pago's Devsite Documentation
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
devsite
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