Matias Lespiau
VP Of Software Engineering at Avature
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMatias Lespiau is a seasoned software engineering leader with 17 years of experience, currently serving as VP of Software Engineering at Avature in Madrid. He has scaled and co-led development and DevOps organizations from 150 to 300+ engineers across Argentina and Spain, doubling feature throughput while cutting reported defects in half and major defects to a quarter. Previously as VP of SaaS Operations at Aurea he drove infrastructure modernization and automation, delivering over $16M in cost savings and stable platforms across 80+ SaaS products. His hands-on roots span architecture, NLP-driven resume parsing, and open-source backend work on projects like OpenCATS, reflecting a blend of operational rigor and code-level craftsmanship. Known for improving cross-team processes and measurable KPIs, he pairs cloud-native expertise (Kubernetes, AWS) with a pragmatic focus on quality and scalable delivery.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad Argentina de la EmpresaCourseraT&T Languages
English, German
Github Skills (4)
php10
css10
unit-testing9
phpunit8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opencats/OpenCATS
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Applicant Tracking System (maintained code base)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 301 commits, 62 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matias primarily focused on improving and maintaining the existing codebase of the Applicant Tracking System. The contributions include removing fixed widths and making home layouts flexible by modifying CSS files, and fixing and refactoring tests. The user also replaced the GroupTest class with TestSuite, improved error messages, fixed rounding issues, and made methods static to fix failing unit tests.
recruitersapplicant-tracking-systemdjangophptracking
mlespiau/OpenCATS
Jun 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 14 PRs, 243 pushes in 4 years
phpbase-coderuby
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