Diego Curbelo
Software Engineer at Automattic
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolDiego Curbelo is a software engineer and digital banking solutions architect with 10 years of experience leading transformation programs for global banks such as HSBC, Scotiabank, Banco GNB and Banco Pichincha. He combines hands-on full‑stack development with technical leadership roles at Automattic, Mercado Libre and Technisys, delivering secure, testable payment and banking platforms. Diego has practical experience integrating payment gateways at scale—contributing code, tests and docs to the official WooCommerce Stripe gateway—and a background in Java, PHP and modern front-end work. Based in Montevideo, he pairs an engineering degree from Universidad de la República with applied product-architecture experience, often bridging product, QA and ops to ship complex projects. Colleagues value his ability to translate regulatory and operational banking requirements into pragmatic, auditable software designs.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
First Certificate in English, First Certificate in English at University of CambridgeIngeniería en Computación, Ingeniería en Computación at Universidad de la República
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
woocommerce10
php10
javascript10
stripe10
testing9
frontend8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 394 reviews, 192 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Diego's commits primarily focused on integrating and updating the Stripe payment gateway within the WooCommerce platform. They added test scripts and configuration files from another WooCommerce Payments repository, indicating an effort to establish a testing environment. Their work involved updating the UPE classic frontend and the UPE features with new functionalities. The commits involved modifications to PHP files and JavaScript code, as well as updates to the documentation.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
diegocurbelo/vscode-custom-pointer
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
Custom mouse pointer/cursor for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 6 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionmousecursors
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