Alejandro Villegas
Chief Technical Architect at Girasol Payment Solutions
Canada
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Top SchoolAlejandro Villegas is a Chief Technical Architect and senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end, scalable fintech products across Latin America and the Caribbean. He combines hands-on back-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to MindsDB’s API, adding cross-origin support and SQL query endpoints—with product and founding experience as Co-Founder of FinZi, a digital banking platform for Gen Z. Alejandro has moved between full-stack roles and platform engineering, shipping systems that span databases, APIs, DevOps and front-end integrations for startups and enterprise clients. Now based in Canada, he leads architecture and delivery at Girasol Payment Solutions, focusing on secure, compliant payment technology for financial institutions. Notably, his open-source work on MindsDB ties him to AI-for-data projects, giving him a practical edge in applying ML-capable data access patterns to financial services. He blends entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic engineer’s mindset, often surfacing small but impactful infrastructure improvements that accelerate product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
python10
apidoc10
mysql10
databases10
api10
database10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
apim9
flask-ask9
flask9
rest-api9
ai6
postgresql4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mindsdb/mindsdb
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
AI's query engine - Platform for building AI that can learn and answer questions over large scale federated data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro primarily contributed to the back-end API of the mindsdb repository, focusing on enhancements related to CORS configuration, database query execution, and the addition of a new query endpoint. They made modifications to the API's HTTP initialization to allow for cross-origin requests. They also added functionality to execute SQL queries against a MySQL database and retrieve data, including field names, improving the data retrieval process. Furthermore, the user added documentation for database handlers.
localaimachine-learning-databasesolacesinglestoreexplainable-ml
alejandrovillegas/Landing-Alejo
Jun 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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