Miguel Vargas
Senior Software Engineer at Cursor
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Top SchoolMiguel Vargas is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-quality, production-grade systems for startups across healthcare, fintech, delivery, construction, fashion, and real estate. He blends a strong foundation in engineering, mathematics, and the hard sciences with practical expertise in Python backends (FastAPI, Django), cloud deployments, and multi-tenant SaaS architecture to turn complex ideas into robust products. A pragmatic advocate for modern engineering practices, Miguel integrates AI tools like Codex, Claude Code, and Copilot into his workflow to speed delivery and improve technical decisions, and he’s spoken for and organized developer events as a Cursor Ambassador in Ecuador. He has driven high-impact integrations—Shopify Plus for high-volume merchants and FIX protocol work for investing platforms—and built climate risk modeling APIs that translate data science into business value. Comfortable in high-ownership startup environments, he pairs hands-on coding and mentoring with a habit of raising code quality through security and CI/CD tooling. Based in Quito, he brings a research-minded curiosity (robotics simulations and control comparisons) that surfaces in pragmatic, well-architected engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Control Engineering at Escuela Politécnica Nacional
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (108)
python10
testing10
complexity-theory10
lxml10
conditional-statements10
heroku10
computer-science10
django10
database10
pylint10
mysql10
python-requests10
unit-testing10
pytest10
robot10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lmiguelvargasf/MITx-6.00.1x
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 115 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 6 months
introduction-to-computer-sciencepythonsciencecomputer-sciencemit
bit0001/MyPokemon
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:36 PRs, 208 pushes, 38 branches in 2 months
reactpokemon-app
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