Marcelo Landó
Senior Software Engineer at Authentik Security
Paraguay
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Top SchoolMarcelo Landó is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, leading teams, and strengthening security across cloud-native architectures. He brings deep Python and Django expertise, proven by work on identity and authentication at Authentik Security and API-driven platforms at Shipwell and Moody’s, plus contributions to the popular beeware/briefcase project improving templating robustness. Comfortable across AWS, serverless patterns, and databases (Postgres, Snowflake), he also applies offensive security skills from a decade of consulting to harden systems and threat-model designs. Marcelo blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and curriculum work, having led bootcamp instruction and guided junior engineers into production-ready contributions. Based in Paraguay, he has a track record of refactoring legacy systems into distributed architectures and integrating AI tooling like OpenAI’s Whisper for real-world products.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción"Universidad de la Integración de las Americas
Spanish, English, Gujarati, Portuguese
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Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
cookiecutter10
python10
pytest9
testing9
jinja29
django6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
beeware/briefcase
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Tools to support converting a Python project into a standalone native application.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Marcelo primarily focused on improving the integration with cookiecutter, a tool used for project templating. They implemented filters to escape double quotes and backslashes within the cookiecutter context. This involved writing the necessary code and creating unit tests to ensure the functionality's correctness. Furthermore, the user refactored code by renaming functions to improve clarity.
convertingpythonpython3standalone
melizeche/AireLibre
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
AireLibre is a community response to the need to know about air quality in a free, collaborative and decentralized way.
Contributions:13 reviews, 22 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years
airquality-sensorpythonairqualitymonitoringsystemethereump2p
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