Matías Aguirre
Staff Software Engineer at Medallia
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolMatías Aguirre is a Staff Software Engineer based in Montevideo with 18 years of experience building backend systems and web applications, currently leading engineering efforts at Medallia. He brings deep Python and Django expertise from long-term contributions to prominent open-source projects like Scrapy and python-social-auth, where he improved site infrastructure, admin interfaces, and core Django models. His background spans startups and scale-ups—roles at MonkeyLearn and Theorem sharpened his skills in production systems, Ruby web development, and API design. Comfortable across stacks from embedded C to large Django apps, he blends hands-on implementation with system-level thinking and mentorship. Notably, he pairs enterprise delivery with active open-source maintenance, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and developer experience.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
LMGAUniversidad ORT Uruguay
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
social-authentication10
web-development10
back-end-development10
python10
modeling10
django10
css8
html8
webscraping5
app-framework5
web-framework5
application-framework5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
python-social-auth/social-app-django
Aug 2016 - Aug 2021
Python Social Auth - Application - Django
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 154 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Matías primarily focused on modifying and refactoring core Django models, fields, and strategies within the social_django application. Their commits involved cleaning up code, porting pull requests to integrate new features and fixes. They worked on database migrations, added and modified fields and functionality, and updated settings and configurations for the Django integration of Python Social Auth.
pythonsocial-authdjango-rest-frameworkdjangoauthentication
scrapy/scrapy
Jun 2008 - Sep 2008
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matías primarily contributed to the Django-based web application within the Scrapy project. Their work involved significant modifications to the site's structure, including the addition of features for ordering and managing links, and modifying admin interfaces. They also refactored and updated template files to improve the website's front end and implemented Django-specific functionality.
pythonscrapyscraping-frameworkhigh-levelweb-crawling
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