Ignacio Covarrubias
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Plutto (YC S22)
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolIgnacio Covarrubias is a founder and CTO with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently leading the technical vision at Plutto (YC S22) where AI is applied to optimize supplier selection, customer sales, and hiring. He has a track record of building product-ready platforms rapidly—most notably delivering a full Chargebee replica in three months at a stealth startup—and has co-founded multiple B2B ventures including Milla Travel. Strong in both hands-on development and team-building, Ignacio helped shape Platanus’s engineering methodology and served as Scrum Master and mentor in recruitment and internships. His background blends industrial engineering and computer science training from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with startup acceleration experience at Platanus Ventures and Y Combinator. Based in Santiago, he pairs a global cultural curiosity—fuelled by a passion for music and travel—with pragmatic product-focused engineering. Colleagues would describe him as an operator who turns ambiguous problems into shipping systems under tight timelines.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
S22 batch, S22 batch at Y Combinator20-1 batch, 20-1 batch at Platanus VenturesIngeniería Civil Industrial, Ciencias de la Computación, Ingeniería Civil Industrial, Ciencias de la Computación at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (46)
sidekiq8
cordova7
ruby7
del7
google-compute-engine6
jruby6
ruby-on-rails6
flask6
android6
gunicorn6
docker-proxy6
docker6
rails6
java6
phonegap6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plutto-labs/plutto
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:441 commits in 4 months
platanus/smart-receptionist
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:34 PRs, 47 pushes, 27 branches in 9 months
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