Marcelo Briones is a QA Automation Engineer with 12 years’ experience building reliable, scalable test and delivery pipelines across gaming, enterprise, and startup environments. He combines full‑stack development experience with deep automation expertise—having designed CI/CD, test environments, and in-house deployment tools for multi-language microservices and React Native frontends. Marcelo has led QA teams and staff‑level automation efforts using Cucumber, Selenium, and custom frameworks, and contributed backend fixes and refactors to the notable open‑source Diaspora project. Based in Mendoza, Chile, he brings a lifelong passion for computing (coding since age 10) and a mindset of continuous learning and technical leadership in progress.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Ingeniería, Industrial Engineering, Ingeniería, Industrial Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 58 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcelo primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Diaspora social network project. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to message validation, implementing new features such as the "peter" user in spec helpers, and modifying models such as Conversation and related specifications. They also worked on improving the codebase through code cleanup and refactoring, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability. The user also worked on exporting user photos as zip files.
Contributions:6 releases, 48 PRs, 23 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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