Esteban Tapia
Senior Software Engineer at Mercado Libre
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolEsteban Tapia is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years building robust full-stack and backend systems across retail, finance, and healthcare at companies like Mercado Libre, Thoughtworks, Walmart Chile and large banks. He specializes in Golang, Node.js and React, applying Hexagonal Architecture, DDD and SOLID principles to design microservices, APIs and observable systems with CI/CD pipelines. As a technical lead he’s driven increases in test coverage (0% to 72%), led observability efforts with Datadog, and shaped product and architecture decisions for KPI and monetization platforms. Comfortable across the stack, he blends hands‑on coding (including Goroutines and design patterns) with coaching product owners and removing delivery impediments. Based in Santiago, Chile, he pairs a Civil Engineering degree in Computing with practical experience globalizing AI-driven healthcare platforms and mobile digital channels. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous requirements into testable, production-ready services while keeping an eye on scalability and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Civil en Computación e Informática, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Ingeniería Civil en Computación e Informática, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Universidad Central (CL)
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
javascript6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Esteam85/patente-chilena-dv
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Cálculo de dígito verificador de patente Chilena
Contributions:36 commits, 18 PRs, 37 pushes in 4 years 7 months
javascript
Esteam85/dotfiles
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 11 months
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