Patricio Vargas is a Staff Developer Advocate at PayPal with 11 years of experience building developer ecosystems, open source projects, and developer relations programs for companies like PayPal, OneSignal, and This Dot. A Google Developer Expert in Angular and prolific community builder, he manages the Angular Hispano open source effort and has authored 46+ technical articles with over 500k views while mentoring dozens of contributors. He combines hands-on engineering (Angular, React, AWS, Node.js) with strategic DevRel work—creating content, conference strategies, SDK samples, and developer programs that scale. Recognized across the industry as an Auth0 and Cloudinary ambassador, Twilio Champion, AWS Community Builder, Postman Supernova, and Microsoft MVP, he brings both credibility and practical impact to platform advocacy. Notably, his contributions to OSS and documentation have influenced tools used by millions and helped drive product decisions through close collaboration with SDK and API teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Valdosta State University
Bachelor's degree, Bionanotechnology, Bachelor's degree, Bionanotechnology at Universidad Iberoamericana León
React project to scan and write into NFC tags using the Web NFC API.
Contributions:1 release, 50 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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