Andrés Candal - VP Of Engineering at Auronix

Andrés Candal

VP Of Engineering at Auronix

Greater Buenos Aires Argentina

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Andrés Candal is a seasoned engineering leader with two decades of software experience and 12 years in senior management roles, currently serving as VP of Engineering for Auronix's conversational platform. He has driven large-scale platform transformations at Medallia—scaling reporting systems from millions to billions of data points and enabling 1.5k customers—then led security and platform teams at Salesforce before focusing on conversational commerce. A hands-on former tech lead and contributor, Andrés has implemented backend features and tests in notable open-source tooling such as jcabi-github, adding deploy key and content handling. He combines technical depth in distributed Java/JEE systems with product-minded delivery, operational resiliency and cost-efficiency expertise. Educated in software engineering and an MBA in Organizational Leadership, he excels at growing high-performing, globally distributed teams while improving scalability and observability. Based in Greater Buenos Aires, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering, delivery management and stakeholder trust-building uncommon in pure-technical leaders.

12 years of coding experience

19 years of employment as a software developer

FIrst Certificate, English, B, FIrst Certificate, English, B at Academia Cultural Inglesa de Villa Urquiza (Cultural English Academy of Villa Urquiza)

Ing. en Informática, Software Engineering, Project Management, Ing. en Informática, Software Engineering, Project Management at University of Buenos Aires

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Organizational Leadership, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Organizational Leadership at Universidad del CEMA

Spanish, English

Github Skills (7)

oop10

unit-testing10

javas10

rest-api10

github-api10

java10

api9

Programming languages (1)

Java

Github contributions (1)

jcabi/jcabi-github

Jan 2014 - Feb 2014

Java Object-Oriented Wrapper of GitHub API, with a fake implementation of the entire GitHub API (for your tests)

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:44 commits in 1 month

Contributions summary:Andrés enhanced the `jcabi/jcabi-github` project by adding functionality related to deploy keys and contents. Their commits introduced new interfaces (`DeployKeys`, `DeployKey`, `Contents`, `Content`) and their implementations (`RtDeployKeys`, `RtContents`, `MkDeployKeys`, `MkContent`). These changes included adding and testing methods for fetching keys, and introducing new features to retrieve contents. The user also added tests for the newly implemented functionality.

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