Manuel Argüelles
Software Engineer at Smartmatic
Panama
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Argüelles is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of professional experience, currently delivering solutions at Smartmatic from his base in Panama. He brings deep systems-level expertise in C/C++, Python, PHP and SQL, shaped by long tenures at Azetti Networks and earlier roles in game tech. Manuel is an active open-source contributor to the Tox ecosystem, improving Unicode/wide-character support, fixing segfaults and enhancing build tooling to make libraries more usable. He excels at back-end and full-stack problem solving, especially where robustness and low-level correctness matter. Known for pragmatic debugging and thoughtful refactors, he combines production-grade engineering with a developer-first approach to tooling and interoperability.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at Universidad Tecnológica de PanamáBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Colegio De La Salle, Panamá
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
c1710
instant-message10
curses10
instant-messaging10
instant-messenger10
cmake10
c1110
tox10
tui9
privacy4
decentralization4
security4
video-chat4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
irungentoo/toxcore
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
The future of online communications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Manuel contributed to the `toxcore` project by implementing features and fixing bugs across multiple areas. They added CMake modules for wide character support in the ncursesw library and improved the codebase by including wide character support in the chat window. Additionally, they fixed segfault errors and removed outdated functions. Finally, the user also added a pkg-config file to make the library more usable.
dhtp2pcommunicationspeer-to-peertox
JFreegman/toxic
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the Toxic instant messaging client by fixing bugs and adding features related to the core functionality. They addressed a segmentation fault by modifying the argument handling for data files. Furthermore, they implemented wide character support, improving the client's ability to handle Unicode characters and expanded support for various input methods. Additionally, they made changes to the input handling and removed a function related to the names.
dhtwebrtcvideodht-networkncurses
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