Marcos Vanetta is a Senior Engineering Manager with 17 years of experience who currently leads engineering at The New York Times from Austin, focused on delivering product-driven, large-scale systems. He blends hands-on backend, frontend, and infrastructure expertise with team-building discipline—introducing practices like TDD, continuous delivery, code review, and pair programming to raise engineering quality. Previously he led subscription and consumer-revenue engineering at Condé Nast and contributed core features to prominent open-source projects in the Conda ecosystem, adding robust support for IPython notebooks and remote environment management. Comfortable making architectural decisions and prioritizing work, he coaches teams to balance technical excellence with measurable product outcomes. His background in biomedical engineering and formal software specialization gives him a systems-minded approach and a knack for translating complex domain needs into pragmatic engineering solutions.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Especialista en Ingeniería en Software, computación, tecnologías de la información, Especialista en Ingeniería en Software, computación, tecnologías de la información at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina 'Santa María de los Buenos Aires'
Técnico Electrónico, electricidad, electrónica, informática, Técnico Electrónico, electricidad, electrónica, informática at Escuela de Educación Técnica Nº5138 - Alberto Einstein
Ingeniero Biomédico, Bioingeniería, electrónica, informática, Ingeniero Biomédico, Bioingeniería, electrónica, informática at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Contributions:2 releases, 259 commits, 89 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Marcos's contributions center on enhancing the `anaconda/anaconda-client` repository's functionality. The primary focus was on implementing features to detect and support IPython notebook files (.ipynb) within the project. This involved modifying existing code to recognize and process .ipynb files, including inspecting their metadata and incorporating support for both the older and newer notebook formats. These changes extended the client's ability to handle different package types.
A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:189 commits, 8 comments, 3 issues in 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily contributed to the `conda/conda` repository by implementing features related to environment management through the use of binstar. This includes downloading environment files from binstar, creating environments, and refactoring the binstar functionality into an object-oriented approach, involving the creation of exceptions, and a downloader class. The user also incorporated support for remote environment definitions.
os-agnosticcondaagnosticpackage-managerlinux
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Marcos Vanetta - Senior Engineering Manager at The New York Times