Marcos Gutierrez is a Staff Software Developer with 11 years of experience building distributed web systems and open-source projects, currently based in Rotterdam and leading engineering work at Bynder. He blends front-end UX polish—demonstrated in contributions to the decentralized messaging app Patchwork—with back-end robustness, having fixed PayPal integrations and improved API stability for Open Collective. Passionate about mesh networks, co-ops, blockchain and democratic tech, he focuses on software that connects people and enables community participation. Comfortable across the stack, Marcos brings pragmatic craftsmanship to both UI internationalization and server-side reliability, and is as likely to refactor a dataloader typo as to rethink a user flow. Unusually, he pairs this technical depth with a long-standing interest in social-impact tooling and open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lic., Diseño y Producción Audivisual, Lic., Diseño y Producción Audivisual at Universidad Nacional de Villa María
A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:29 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily focused on front-end development, making changes to UI elements and styling. They modified button styles, adjusted the channel list's appearance, and updated the styling of the split-view components. Furthermore, they implemented internationalization features and integrated them within the front-end code, including the profile and gathering sheets. This indicates a focus on improving the user interface and user experience within the application.
Open Collective's API. A GraphQL API powered by Sequelize and PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily focused on improving the Open Collective API's back-end functionality. They addressed PayPal integration issues by reducing error message verbosity, adding support email addresses, and fixing asynchronous hook execution. They also corrected regressions and fixed dataloader typos within the application. Furthermore, the user made modifications to testing procedures to improve test reliability and stability.
apigraphql-apisequelizeapi-snodejs
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Marcos Gutierrez - Staff Software Developer at Bynder