Jorge Cápona
Senior Software Engineer at LoanLight, Inc
Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolJorge Cápona is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chile with over 10 years building reliable systems that bridge hardware and software, from laboratory robotics to embedded Raspberry Pi products. He has led automation and integration efforts—modernizing CI/CD pipelines, packaging Python and Debian artifacts, and migrating monolithic flows to GitHub Actions and Docker. His background spans distributed architectures, Linux-based embedded development, computer vision, and backend services in Python, Go, Node.js and C/C++, reflecting a practical full-stack fluency. At uBiome he headed automation for biomedical lab operations, reverse-engineered equipment protocols, and shipped production computer vision and control libraries; at pi-top he connected classroom-facing web apps to embedded devices via GraphQL. Pragmatic and hands-on, he combines startup grit (co-founding IPROC and participating in Start-Up Chile) with production-grade engineering discipline to solve complex hardware-software challenges.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
English
Github Skills (89)
nuget10
lan10
github10
image-processing10
menu10
debian-linux10
sdk10
git10
flash10
portal10
wrapper10
sd-card10
dotnet9
linux9
computer-vision9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pi-top/pi-top-4-Touchscreen
May 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 10 PRs in 3 years 9 months
pi-topos
jcapona/mount-image-partition-action
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Action that mounts an image partition
Contributions:8 releases, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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