Marcel Canú is a senior software engineer based in Montevideo with four years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile products. He co-founded and leads the technical direction of Buen Provecho, a food-waste startup that serves thousands of monthly users and demonstrates his ability to turn social impact ideas into scalable production platforms. Marcel has delivered customer-facing growth features for large marketplaces through contractor work for Rover.com, and has broad experience across Django, React/React Native, PostgreSQL, and AWS. His background includes engineering leadership roles where he owned roadmaps, stakeholder management, and cross-functional delivery, as well as early backend work with Laravel and GraphQL. He combines academic rigor from Universidad ORT and cloud/devops training from MIT Professional Education with a practical bias for end-to-end delivery. Notably, he balances startup building with contractor engagements, showing both entrepreneurial drive and the ability to impact large-scale products.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería en Sistemas, Computer Science, 97%, Ingeniería en Sistemas, Computer Science, 97% at Universidad ORT Uruguay
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Macquarie University
Digital Plus Program, Cloud & Devops, 100%, Digital Plus Program, Cloud & Devops, 100% at MIT Professional Education
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Marcel Canú - Senior Software Engineer at Buen Provecho App