Erick De La Garza
Principal Software Engineer at Refer.IO
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
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Top SchoolErick De La Garza is a Principal Software Engineer and founder with 13+ years building full-stack products, cloud-native infrastructure, and engineering teams from Monterrey, Mexico. He blends hands-on development in TypeScript, PHP/Laravel, Vue, and Python with pragmatic architecture and infrastructure design using Kubernetes, GCP, DigitalOcean, and Pulumi. As founder and CTO of Hagane Software he scaled a consultancy from coding to technical leadership, delivering everything from Electron desktop apps with hardware access to computer vision OCR pipelines and BLE optimization on mobile. Erick excels at turning complex problems into simple abstractions, mentoring developers, and making technology decisions that prioritize reliability and business value. Currently a principal at Refer.IO, he brings an uncommon mix of product-focused craftsmanship and ops-level DevOps experience, backed by a steady track record across startups and established teams like Etsy and Wizeline. Check his GitHub (erickcg) for examples of his pragmatic, production-oriented work.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidad de Monterrey
Spanish, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (39)
escpos10
role-based10
jquery9
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laravel9
usb9
sublime9
bluetooth9
time-format9
network8
zebra8
php8
printer8
hardware8
nodejs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ecastillo550/experiment0
Nov 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:58 commits in 2 months
erickcg/pisye
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:87 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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