Summary
Armando Mendoza is a Senior Programmer based in Santiago with 14+ years building backend systems, and nine years focused on Ruby and Ruby on Rails combined with JavaScript. He has led and mentored development teams at startups and scale-ups, designing and maintaining REST APIs and integrations with services like Stripe, Mailchimp and Coinbase while championing TDD and Agile practices. Comfortable in both in-person and remote environments, he pairs hands-on coding (Rails, RSpec, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis) with product-aware engineering and roadmap input. A co-founder-turned-engineering lead, he brings practical experience across web, embedded and accounting systems, and a habit of continuous learning—currently studying functional languages such as Erlang and Clojure in his spare time. His Github and StackOverflow footprints reflect steady, focused contributions rather than flashy open-source fame, underlining a pragmatic, long-term approach to software craft.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish