Summary
Raúl Montes is a pragmatic software engineer and serial co-founder with 12+ years building full-stack, product-focused systems across startups and academia in Chile. He blends hands-on expertise in backend (Node.js, Python), frontend (React), mobile, DevOps and ML with proven leadership—having led 10+ engineers as Lead Engineer at Metabolic and launched multiple ventures including UDP, Oper, Pauca Technologies and Matilda Explorations. As an adjunct professor he influenced curriculum shifts toward modern stacks, and he pairs that teaching mindset with deep operational experience designing multi-tenant platforms, SSO infrastructures and production ML pipelines. Comfortable moving between strategy and code, he’s driven by using software to create measurable social and product impact.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio San Ignacio, Alonso de Ovalle
Civil Industrial Engineer, Academic Diploma in Computer Science, Civil Industrial Engineer, Academic Diploma in Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Master of Science, program in Computer Science, Web Engineering, Master of Science, program in Computer Science, Web Engineering at Postgrado de la Escuela de Ingeniería - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Spanish, English