Summary
Ignacio Galindo is a Senior Backend Developer with 12 years of experience building production web applications, currently contributing to Shopify from Málaga, Spain. He specializes in Ruby and the Rails ecosystem but is a self-described tech polyglot who has shipped services in Go and JavaScript (AngularJS, React). Ignacio combines hands-on backend development with infrastructure automation—Docker, Vagrant, Ansible—and deploying to GCP, AWS and Heroku, ensuring smooth release lifecycles. His career spans startups and scale-ups (CloudApp, MagmaLabs, OneLogin) as well as an uncommon stint in volcanic research, reflecting curiosity and adaptability. Passionate about learning and open source, he routinely experiments with new tools and processes to solve engineering challenges and improve team velocity. Collected experience across e‑commerce, identity, consultancy and research gives him a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to building reliable services.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tehcnical High School, Programmer Analyst, Tehcnical High School, Programmer Analyst at University of Colima
Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering, Web Technologies, Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering, Web Technologies at Tecnológico Nacional de México
Spanish, English