Summary
Maria Chacón is a Ruby Architect with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails backends for startups and large enterprises, including multiple stints at Globant and projects like burdastyle.com, mediabistro.com and Atria. She specializes in backend architecture, refactoring and reliable maintenance work, with strong expertise in GraphQL/REST, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and CI/CD tooling. Comfortable switching between freelance and team roles, she has a track record of remote collaboration and shipping production features and performance improvements. Notably, she began her Rails career learning from a Ruby luminary and continues to balance long-term client maintenance with periodic deep refactors, making her adept at both legacy code rescue and incremental modernization. Based in Tafí Viejo, Argentina, she’s actively seeking a new technical challenge for 2025 while continuing to support existing clients.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Programador Universitario, Informática, Programador Universitario, Informática at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán