Carlos Lugones is a software engineer and serial tech entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling web products across frontend and backend stacks. He has founded and led multiple startups—from VPN and podcasting platforms to payments and ed-tech—shipping consumer-facing services that served thousands of users and attracted acquisition interest. Comfortable as a solo maker or as CTO of growing teams, he combines product instinct with operational experience running infrastructure (notably WireGuard-based VPN services for constrained markets). His work reflects a pragmatic bias toward shipping fast and iterating, informed by several projects that taught him when to pivot or sunset products. Based in Belgrade, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and mentorship experience, having guided interns and helped early-stage communities grow. Not obvious from titles: many of his ventures targeted underserved or resource-constrained markets (e.g., Cuba), shaping a specialty in building resilient, low-bandwidth-friendly systems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero, Ingeniería en Ciencias Informáticas, Ingeniero, Ingeniería en Ciencias Informáticas at Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas
Contributions:14 releases, 4 reviews, 97 commits in 10 months
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