Ignacio Galdames
Senior Front End at Hites
Santiago Metropolitan Area Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolIgnacio Galdames is a Senior Front End developer from Santiago with 11 years of experience building responsive ecommerce and marketing front ends, currently leading front-end work at Hites. A self-taught web developer with an advertising background, he combines usability-first UI/UX design with practical engineering across Angular, Django, WordPress, SASS and Ruby on Rails. His career spans agency and in-house roles delivering landing pages, email systems, and client platforms for brands like Ripley, WOM and AFP Hábitat, often optimizing workflows with tools like Jekyll, Gulp and Agile practices. Beyond code, Ignacio is an active science fiction writer (I.A. Galdames) with a Professional Certificate in Writing for Video Games from UBC, bringing narrative-driven thinking to user experiences. He’s known for blending creative storytelling with technical pragmatism—improving processes and shipping production-ready front ends fast. Fluent in Spanish and steeped in cyberpunk aesthetics, he brings a distinctive creative voice to product design and front-end development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advertising, Advertising at Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y ComunicaciónCertificado, Creative Writing, Certificado, Creative Writing at CursivaDiplomatura, Storytelling, 93/100, Diplomatura, Storytelling, 93/100 at Fundación Telefónica MovistarCiencia ficción, Ciencia ficción at Escuela de EscritoresEducación Media, Humanities/Humanistic Studies, Educación Media, Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Liceo José Victorino LastarriaProfessional Certificate, Writing for Video Games, Professional Certificate in Writing for Video Games, Professional Certificate, Writing for Video Games, Professional Certificate in Writing for Video Games at The University of British Columbia
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
109reputation
2.3mreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (30)
touchscreen8
tron7
html6
jekyll6
nodejs6
jekyll-theme6
css6
layout6
jquery6
javascript6
post6
science5
shell5
desktop5
linux5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IgnacioGaldames/IgnacioGaldames.github.io
Oct 2014 - Apr 2021
Ignacio Galdames Github
Contributions:2 releases, 280 commits, 91 PRs in 6 years 7 months
IgnacioGaldames/tiempos_alternos
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 release, 36 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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