Erik Almaraz
Lead Product Engineer at Wander
Mexico City
Summary
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SeniorErik Almaraz is a self-taught software engineer and founder with nearly a decade of experience building distributed products and leading engineering teams from Mexico City. He has driven architecture and execution for complex integration platforms—most recently powering OTA and PMS synchronization at Wander—and co-founded Wisel AI to apply voice-aware language coaching with adaptive, user-centered models. Comfortable across the stack, Erik has led frontend design systems and component libraries, owned critical pricing and availability infrastructure, and mentored engineers to raise delivery quality. An open-source contributor and old-school gopher/rustacean with roots in C, he has also contributed meaningful XMPP protocol work to the go-xmpp library, improving real-time conferencing and service discovery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who blends product thinking with hands-on implementation and a persistent drive to learn.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (6)
golang10
chat10
xmpp10
go10
networking9
xml8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xmppo/go-xmpp
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Go XMPP Library (From Yasuhiro Matsumoto and based on the code from Russ Cox)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the `go-xmpp` library by implementing and refining core XMPP functionalities. Their work includes adding DNS SRV lookup for connection, fixing hostname verification, improving roster handling, and adding support for conference features. The user also added functionality for querying information such as version and last login time.
golangxmpp-libraryxmppgochat
kjx98/go-xmpp
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
go xmpp library (original was written by russ cox )
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
golangxmpp-libraryxmpp
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