Gabriel Lyon
Co-Founder & CTO at Lokal
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Top SchoolGabriel Lyon is a software engineer and Co-Founder & CTO with nine years of experience building web applications and leading engineering efforts at startups. He brings a strong academic background in optimization (Magister en Ciencias de la Ingeniería) and an Industrial Engineering diploma with computing, blending rigorous analytical thinking with practical software delivery. At Platanus he contributed to backend Ruby/Rails tooling—extending ActiveAdmin with image handling via Shrine and writing tests—showing attention to developer UX and production reliability. Now leading technology at Lokal, he combines hands-on implementation with product-oriented technical leadership. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who moves fluidly between architecture, backend integrations, and improving internal tools.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Magister en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Optimización, Magister en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Optimización at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Github Skills (7)
ruby-rails10
rails10
activeadmin10
ruby10
image-processing9
rspec8
activerecord7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
platanus/activeadmin_addons
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Extends ActiveAdmin to enable a set of great optional UX improving add-ons
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on extending the ActiveAdmin framework with add-ons related to image uploading and display. They implemented features for handling images using Shrine, including setting up initializers, defining uploaders with derivatives, and integrating the image builder component. Furthermore, the user integrated the image functionality within the admin interface, as well as the Invoice model using the Shrine library. Tests for the image builder functionalities were also included.
add-onsrailsrubygreatimproving
platanus/queue-it
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 reviews, 65 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
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