Summary
Ariel Ríos is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader from Vicente López, Argentina, with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, resilient backend systems in Python, Java, and Go. He has led multi-team initiatives at companies like MercadoLibre, Eventbrite, and Ontop, delivering high-impact projects such as cross-border currency platforms, zero-downtime API migrations, and a public payments API. Ariel combines deep systems and infra experience (Kubernetes, Postgres, caching, migration at scale) with strong coaching and hiring chops, having conducted dozens of technical interviews and mentored multiple juniors. Curiosity-driven and an open-source advocate, he prefers coding daily and has a practical track record of cost and performance optimizations—like cutting media storage/network costs by ~30% at Fever.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería en Sistemas Ingeniería de sistemas, Ingeniería en Sistemas Ingeniería de sistemas at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English