Alfonso De La Guarda Reyes is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14+ years delivering interdisciplinary R&D and production systems across health, defense, and mining sectors from Lima, Peru. An old-school hacker and lifelong Linux/FLOSS advocate, he blends low-level systems and game programming roots (CBM-64/Amiga) with modern Python-first development and DevOps, contributing maintenance and quality fixes to notable open-source projects like web2py. He has guided telemedicine and AI-driven diagnostics platforms, advised national health institutions, and led technology architecture for multiple startups and ventures. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding, systems architecture, and community-facing roles, he also mentors developers through workshops, hackathons, and ambassador programs. His background in computer science, communications and anthropology gives him a rare ability to translate technical solutions into human-centered systems and policies.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Anthropolgy, Bachelor Anthropolgy at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Profesional Communications Science, Profesional Communications Science at IST John Logie Baird
High School, High School at CEP Agustiniano San Martin de Porres
Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of secure database-driven web-based applications, written and programmable in Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alfonso primarily focused on maintaining and improving the web2py framework. Their contributions involved fixing typos, code style issues, and PEP compliance within various modules, including `gluon`, `admin`, and `cache`. They also addressed bugs related to the upgrade process for setuptools and pip, and made minor updates to scripts. These changes suggest a focus on code quality, maintainability, and the deployment process.
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Alfonso De La Guarda Reyes - Partner & CTO at MiniMax