Luis Cortes
Python Developer SWE at Mercor
Chaparral, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolLuis Cortes is a seasoned Python developer and systems engineer with over a decade of experience building and maintaining cross-platform tooling on Linux, HPUX, and Windows, and a strong background in C and embedded systems. He combines practical expertise in containerized environments (Docker/Podman), dependency management across Python 3.8–3.13, and test-driven workflows to support large, distributed teams and AI research labs. Luis has a track record of improving developer productivity—authoring Python scripts that automate Excel reporting and driving faster Coverity compilation and remediation across teams. He also contributes to notable open-source Android tooling, including performance-focused refactors for a popular calendar library and Material Components support in Cash App’s Paparazzi renderer. Comfortable in both customer-facing and technical-architecture roles, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and process improvements that reduce friction in complex codebases.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at El Paso
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Github Skills (14)
kotlin10
android-ui10
gradlew10
ui-design10
view-binding10
android10
compose10
material-components10
gradle10
testing9
refactoring9
dagger6
android-navigation6
android-studio6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cashapp/paparazzi
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Render your Android screens without a physical device or emulator
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:72 reviews, 38 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily contributed to the `cashapp/paparazzi` project, which focuses on rendering Android screens. Their work included adding support for Material Components to the rendering process, ensuring proper inflation and testing of these components within the Paparazzi framework. They also addressed issues related to transitive and non-transitive resources in Android builds and updated the project to work with the latest versions. Furthermore, the user made contributions to improve the project's compatibility and address internal exceptions.
renderemulatorandroidphysical
kizitonwose/Calendar
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
A highly customizable calendar view and compose library for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Luis primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the Android calendar library. Their work involved simplifying the view hierarchy by removing redundant layouts, streamlining view inflation, and improving encapsulation of components like `DayHolder` and `WeekHolder`. They also addressed view visibility and tag management, and improved view reload logic to enhance the calendar's performance and maintainability. The changes touched the core UI elements of the calendar.
datepickercomposecalendarviewdate-rangeweek-calendar
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