Brujo Benavides is an Erlang engineer and seasoned tech lead with over a decade of experience building high-performance, concurrent systems and training teams across Europe and the Americas. He progressed from junior developer to architect and CTO, shaping production-grade VoIP, RTB, and cloud-integrated services with strict performance and security requirements. A longtime Erlang/OTP advocate, he contributes to notable open-source projects like erlcloud and Inaka’s Erlang guidelines and has improved live code reloading tooling to reduce developer friction. He pairs hands-on backend engineering with public-facing roles as a trainer, conference organizer, and community manager, helping grow local and international functional-programming communities. Comfortable both leading and shipping code, he retains an active developer mindset while mentoring teams on TDD and best practices. Outside work he’s an avid long-distance walker and amateur table-tennis player, a reminder that his problem-solving energy extends beyond the keyboard.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidad de Buenos Aires
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 92 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brujo contributed to the Erlang coding guidelines repository by addressing code style issues and introducing best practices. They made changes to improve code readability and consistency across multiple Erlang files. The user implemented code improvements, refactored existing code, and introduced new code examples to the codebase. Their contributions focused on applying established coding standards and improving the overall quality of the Erlang code.
AWS APIs library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, DDB, ELB and etc)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brujo primarily contributed to the `erlcloud_sns.erl` module, implementing functionality related to Amazon SNS. Their work focused on implementing and refining methods for interacting with the SNS service, including endpoint management and subscription confirmation. They also addressed issues, such as removing a region variable, and addressed minor code style issues.
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Brujo Benavides - Erlang Engineer at Baxter International Inc.