Summary
Isaac Carrera is a Senior Software Engineer with around a decade of experience building JavaScript-first full-stack applications, currently contributing to Mercado Libre’s Mercado Ads. He combines hands-on development in React, React Native, Node and Django with leadership experience as a team lead and adjunct professor, shaping architecture, estimations and code quality across startups and scale-ups. Isaac has repeatedly moved between backend and frontend responsibilities—shipping GraphQL-enabled APIs, AWS-backed services, and mobile apps—while keeping a strong focus on agile delivery. His academic background in industrial engineering with a computing diploma and years of tutoring/teaching reveal a knack for explaining complex systems and mentoring engineers. Notably, he has experience at YC-backed Examedi and led product-aligned engineering at KIMCHE, showing comfort with both high-velocity startups and large platform ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería, Computer Science, Grado en Ingeniería, Computer Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Ingeniero Civil en Industrias, diploma en Computación, Ingeniero Civil en Industrias, diploma en Computación at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile