Joaquin Contreras
Staff Software Engineer at Earnest
Guadalajara, Mexico
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Top SchoolJoaquin Contreras is a Staff Software Engineer and engineering leader with 17 years of experience building scalable web and AI systems from Guadalajara, Mexico. He has led teams and innovation programs at Wizeline—creating a Generative AI Lab, university partnerships, and company-wide internship and bench-development initiatives—and later focused on AI solutions for international aid organizations using vector DBs, LangChain, and a range of LLMs and embeddings. Comfortable across Python, Rust, Go, and TypeScript, he has driven high-performance backend migrations and systems used by millions, while also co-founding and contributing to open-source and Drupal communities in Latin America. Joaquin blends hands-on implementation with people leadership—mentoring engineers, designing architectures, and setting technical strategy—and has a knack for turning bench time into tangible innovation and student-driven accelerator programs. He pairs technical depth in RAG, embeddings, and production ML stacks with entrepreneurial experience dating back to founding web shops and organizing regional conferences.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Finance Economics, Finance Economics at Tecnológico de MonterreyInstituto Pierre FaureHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Colegio Cervantes Costa Rica
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
material-ui10
ubuntu10
code-generation10
static-site-generator10
llama10
dom10
symfony10
nodejs10
mongodb10
llm10
php10
orm10
sqlalchemy10
compiler10
git10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
WizelineLabs/project-lab
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Web tool to track innovation projects and invite interns
Contributions:7 releases, 116 reviews, 157 commits in 8 months
postgresqlremix
axai-mx/ansible-drupal-roles
Sep 2014 - Sep 2018
One server ansible configuration for drupal, using ubuntu, nginx, php-fpm and mariadb
Contributions:167 commits, 3 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 years 1 month
ansibledrupalmariadbnginxphp-fpm
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