Matías Méndez
Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Enable
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMatías Méndez is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 17 years of experience, currently architecting and building a BNPL/CRM platform at Enable to democratize POS lending. He combines deep Python/Django expertise with production-grade systems design—recent work focuses on scalable APIs, microservices and mentoring engineering teams. As former CTO of Streema he led a migration to ~50 microservices, moved infrastructure to Kubernetes, and drove product and revenue growth through data-driven experiments and platform improvements. Comfortable with Rust as well, he blends hands-on coding with strategic architecture and developer-experience improvements that cut costs and accelerate delivery. Colocated in Chicago, he brings a pragmatic leader’s perspective from startups to growth-stage products and a track record of turning operational bottlenecks into measurable gains.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
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Github Skills (140)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
matagus/python-gbif
Nov 2010 - Oct 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 11 months
pythonwebservicetaxonpython3gbif
matagus/django-planet
Jul 2009 - Nov 2019
A django planet and feeds (RSS and ATOM) aggregator application for Django
Contributions:2 reviews, 260 commits, 69 PRs in 10 years 5 months
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