Christian Serron
Chief Product Officer at Element 14
Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Serron is a product-focused software leader and founder with two decades of software experience and nine years of entrepreneurial leadership, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at JARS Capital after his startup Element14 was acquired. He built Element14 into a go-to studio for lean MVPs and digital products that reached millions and earned the trust of clients like MasterClass, BMW, and Penguin Random House. Technically hands-on, Christian contributes to open-source projects such as TypeORM, where he has fixed bugs and authored tests to improve data persistence and time-format handling. Fluent in turning ambiguous market needs into validated products, he blends engineering rigor from a Computer Engineering background with strategic product vision. Based in Uruguay, he brings a global perspective informed by Silicon Valley collaborations while maintaining a pragmatic, test-driven approach to shipping reliable systems. Notably, he pairs executive leadership with continued code-level involvement, bridging product strategy and implementation.
9 years of coding experience
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidad de la República
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
databases10
typescript10
typescripts10
orm10
typescript-types10
typeorm10
database10
testing10
postgresql9
javascript9
sql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
typeorm/typeorm
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on bug fixing and test case implementation within the TypeORM project. They addressed an issue related to time format conversion, modifying the `DataTransformationUtils.ts` file to correct the output format. Additionally, the user wrote test cases for a specific issue, creating and modifying files related to a GitHub issue to validate the correct behavior and persistence of data, demonstrating an understanding of the project's internal workings.
sqlserverionic-cordovasap-hanahanaorm
BuiltByBROS/fangohr-katz
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:26 PRs, 154 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
architecture
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