Nicolás Contreras
Fundador & CEO at PappCorn
Bogota, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolás Contreras is a founder, software architect and CEO with 10 years building scalable digital platforms that democratize access to funding and opportunities across Latin America. He co-founded PappCorn, a software studio that has incubated and accelerated multiple startups, and led the architecture and engineering that made Vaki Colombia’s largest crowdfunding platform. Trained in both Electronic and Industrial Engineering and with sustainability studies from Utrecht, he blends hardware-aware systems thinking with product-led growth and civic-minded entrepreneurship. Driven by a mission to reduce social and economic inequality, he codes and organizes teams to deliver robust, user-centered platforms that empower communities to fund and govern their own projects. An early collaborator with global partners like Mozilla, he brings a global tech stack perspective to locally impactful solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Estudios de sostenibilidad, Estudios de sostenibilidad at Utrecht UniversityUniversidad de los Andes
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (19)
google-app-engine6
dedicated4
docker-image4
npm-package4
static-site4
angular4
scale3
docker3
npm3
typescript3
site-generator3
nodejs3
spanish3
angular-universal3
static-site-generator2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pappcorn/pappcorn
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
A monorepo to help startups build and scale digital products
Contributions:2 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
monorepotypescriptdigital-productsscale
Neocratia/Neocratium
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
A platform for groups to make democratic decisions
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
groupsdecisionsdemocratic
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