John Boitano is an engineering manager based in Santiago with 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading product-focused engineering teams. He progressed from backend and frontend developer roles—working with Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python and React—into CTO and now management positions at fast-moving startups like .forEach and Buk. As a long-time teaching assistant in programming and data structures at Universidad Diego Portales, he combines practical production experience with a strong foundation in computer science and mentorship. He excels at translating academic rigor into maintainable code and developer-friendly processes, often pairing hands-on implementation with team coaching. Comfortable across the stack and the lifecycle from design to deployment, he’s known for making pragmatic technical choices that accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality. A multilingual engineer-educator, he brings both classroom clarity and startup velocity to scaling engineering organizations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Civil en Informática y Telecomunicaciones, Ingeniería Civil en Informática y Telecomunicaciones at Universidad Diego Portales
Ingeniería Civil en Informática, Computational Science, Ingeniería Civil en Informática, Computational Science at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Contributions:1 release, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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