René Mendoza
Software Expert at Mercado Libre
Argentina
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Top SchoolRené Mendoza is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader from Argentina with over a decade of hands-on experience building data platforms, real-time systems, and tooling for large organizations. Currently a Software Expert at Mercado Pago, he has previously led DataOps and data engineering efforts at Despegar, designing scalable batch and streaming pipelines on AWS, Hadoop, Kafka and observability stacks. He pairs production engineering with an academic bent—teaching graphics and systems design at UTN Buenos Aires—bringing deep low-level graphics knowledge (shaders, rendering pipeline) alongside cloud-native infrastructure expertise. His career began in embedded and tactical systems R&D for the Argentine Army, where he led interdisciplinary projects bridging IoT, UAVs and command-and-control software—an unusual mix that informs his pragmatic, systems-oriented approach. Continually expanding his technical stack, René combines team leadership, mentorship and a knack for turning complex, data-driven problems into reliable production services.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería En Sistemas De Información, Ingeniería, Ingeniería En Sistemas De Información, Ingeniería at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English
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Github contributions (5)
tgc-utn/tgc-utn.github.io
Jan 2016 - Sep 2022
Web de TGC
Contributions:14 reviews, 80 commits, 71 PRs in 6 years 9 months
tgc
tgc-utn/tgc-group
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Proyecto plantilla para realizar el trabajo práctico de la asignatura electiva Técnicas de Gráficos por Computadora (TGC) en la carrera de Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Buenos Aires (UTN-FRBA).
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 11 months
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