Summary
Juan Benavente is a Go-focused software engineer based in Mexico City with a decade of professional experience and a track record of backend and systems work at companies like Globant, Vauxoo, and National Instruments. He blends production Go development with Python/Django capability, moving between application engineering and backend roles while shipping reliable services. A Mechatronics graduate from Instituto Politécnico Nacional, he brings strong systems thinking and hands-on problem solving informed by hardware-software exposure. Outside work he applies rigorous strategic thinking as a Candidate Master in chess, fueling interests in chess engine development and algorithmic challenges that influence his approach to optimization and algorithm design.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico