Garrett Vargas
Founder at LegUp
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorGarrett Vargas is a founder and fractional CTO with nine years of experience leading global engineering teams and delivering hands-on technical leadership for growth-stage products. He previously served as CTO at CarRentals.com (part of Expedia) and is co-founder & CTO at LegUp, combining startup instincts with enterprise-scale operational experience. Based in Sammamish, Washington, he balances strategic architecture and product-minded engineering while remaining an active coder who ships features and mentors distributed teams. A Latino father of two and lifelong learner, he brings a people-first approach to building resilient, scalable systems and translating business needs into technical roadmaps. Notably, he pairs fractional CTO agility—helping multiple organizations move faster—with the institutional knowledge of running a travel-tech platform inside a major ecosystem.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
ssml10
blackjack10
prerendering9
yelp9
on-the-fly9
slot9
prerender8
sdk8
google-assistant8
node-library8
nodejs7
validation7
java7
seo6
middleware6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gsdriver/ThreeCardPoker
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
gsdriver/slotmachine
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
Slot Machine for Alexa
Contributions:2 reviews, 202 commits, 25 PRs in 5 years 5 months
slotslot-machinealexa
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