Alejandro Lara
Senior Software Engineer Platform Engineering (Senior Consultant)
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolAlejandro Lara is a Senior Consultant in Platform Engineering with nine years of experience designing cloud-native platforms, scalable architectures, and GenAI-assisted workflows for enterprise production systems. At Thoughtworks LATAM and through his founder practice KaiNext he blends engineering rigor with business operations, treating technical choices as deliberate business decisions and emphasizing diagnosable, outcome-oriented solutions. He has led large digital transformations—modernizing BancoEstado’s customer and internal apps, migrating legacy systems to microservices and Flutter, and standardizing infra with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and multi-cloud deployments. Alejandro routinely ships AI integrations to production using Anthropic and OpenAI models, and acts as a technical reference for AI-assisted engineering across teams. Based in Santiago, he also writes about methodology and real cases at kainext.cl/blog, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on execution, architect-level judgment, and operational clarity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Bootcamp, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, Data Science Bootcamp, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileEnglish as a Second Language, English Language and Literature, General, English as a Second Language, English Language and Literature, General at University of KentuckyComputer Engineer, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineer, Computer Engineering at Duoc UC
English, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
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android7
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react7
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typescript6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Alejandrehl/my-laravel-boilerplate
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
Alejandrehl/simple-bank-api
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:79 commits in 2 months
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