Marcelo Arias
Independent Software Developer at SmartUp
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Top SchoolMarcelo Arias is an independent software developer and Staff Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building full-stack products and AI-first platforms from Peru. He bridges research and production: at SmartUp he architects LLM-driven agents, real-time GPT-4 streaming, and voice/WhatsApp processing systems, while his open-source front-end work includes accessibility and end-to-end tests for NASA’s Open MCT. As an indie founder (Astronomical Software Company) he’s launched multiple consumer and creator-facing products—Animo (29k+ users), ScannerCam (1.5k+ users), Dreamify, and the Generative Manim prototype cited in an arXiv paper—demonstrating a rare mix of product intuition and ML engineering. Comfortable across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and LLM toolchains (PyTorch, HuggingFace, vLLM, LoRA/QLoRA, W&B), he designs UX-driven tooling that turns research ideas into usable software. He also runs Artefisual, a creative learning platform, showing a consistent focus on education and real-world impact beyond pure research.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Unexistent, Computer Science, Unexistent, Computer Science at UTEC - Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
e2e-test9
testing9
accessibility9
e2e-testing9
ui-design9
e2e9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
interface-design7
user-interface7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/openmct
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A web based mission control framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 2 commits, 9 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Marcelo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Open MCT framework. Their commits focused on enhancing the user interface and improving accessibility by adding ARIA roles, labels, and functionalities for notifications and image viewing. Key changes involved refactoring existing code for better type safety, implementing new features like dismissing notifications and expanding images, and writing end-to-end tests to ensure functionality. They also fixed a bug related to the notification overlay.
mission-controlweb-based
360macky/guruhotel-challenge
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:92 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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