Andrés Álvarez
Senior Software Engineer at System Surveyor
Honduras
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrés Álvarez is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building Python-based backend systems and serverless architectures, currently driving engineering at System Surveyor. He has led feature development and performance optimization for products like OKRs at 15Five and pay-equity tooling at Syndio, and architected large-scale serverless pipelines that processed 100K+ books at e-Libro. Comfortable across cloud-native AWS services, Django, PostgreSQL, and observability tools, he also contributed to notable open-source projects such as AWS Chalice (serverless framework) and Ace editor (HAML highlighting), showing both backend and front-end fluency. His background includes cloud orchestration with OpenStack and Juju and hands-on DevOps/CI-CD experience, reflecting a strong operational mindset alongside software design. Based in Honduras with a master's from National Tsing Hua University, he blends international experience with a track record of shipping scalable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Information Systems & Applications Information Systems and Applications, Master in Information Systems & Applications Information Systems and Applications at National Tsing Hua UniversityComputer Systems Engineering Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering Computer Science at Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana
English, Spanish, Chinese, Italian
Github Skills (15)
serverless10
aws-lambda10
javascript10
ace-editor10
haml10
aws10
syntax-highlighting10
python10
testing10
aws-apigateway9
wp-theme8
documentation8
wordpress-themes8
pytest8
css7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aws/chalice
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrés primarily contributed to the backend of the Chalice framework, focusing on the local development server and its configuration. They implemented features like allowing custom bind addresses, added unit tests for testing the local server's host, and improved the testing coverage of the local server functionality. Furthermore, the user made updates to the documentation, including an example of specific lambda function configurations within a stage and corrected a typo.
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ajaxorg/ace
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 18 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrés primarily focused on improving the HAML syntax highlighting within the Ace editor. They addressed several issues, including incorrect highlighting of comments and indentation-related problems. The user also reworked the HAML highlighting rules to improve accuracy and added instance variables for HAML support. Furthermore, they fixed a trailing comma, added missing styles for the Gruvbox theme and added keywords to JavaScript.
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