Marcelo Vega
Software Developer at Jumpseller
Temuco, Araucania Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcelo Vega is a seasoned software developer with nearly two decades of experience and a decade of focused backend work, currently building products at Jumpseller after contributing to Automattic’s Jetpack and Calypso. He’s fluent across Java, JavaScript, Python, and PHP, and has hands-on experience designing microservices, REST APIs, and high-volume systems with partitioned relational databases as well as Redis and MongoDB. Comfortable in distributed, remote teams across America, Europe, and Asia since 2017, he combines autonomy with strong cross-functional communication and onboarding skills. At Automattic he improved backup reliability and handled complex integrations for WooCommerce and billing, and also contributed UI improvements to the high-profile wp-calypso project. Marcelo is customer-focused and pragmatic, often driving projects end-to-end—from proposing designs to catching subtle production issues like memory leaks and silent failures. He pairs a Civil Engineering background in Computer Science from Universidad de Chile with a track record of translating legacy systems into maintainable services and automating slow manual processes.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Engineer degree, Computer Science, Civil Engineer degree, Computer Science at Universidad de Chile
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
javascript10
react10
redux9
nodejs9
s68
typecript7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
May 2022 - Nov 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 7 commits, 43 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Marcelo contributed to the WordPress.com Calypso project by implementing and modifying UI components related to backup functionality and activity logs. They added a backup block to handle localized dates within backup links. The user also worked on the display of backup progress, including a percentage indicator, and incorporated warnings related to running backups during restore processes. Their contributions primarily involved changes to React components within the client-side codebase.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
mavegaf/organization-hapi
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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