Rodrigo Alegre
Senior Software Engineer at Mercado Libre
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolRodrigo Alegre is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montevideo with 11 years of hands-on experience building back-end systems and databases across PHP, Java, Erlang, Oracle and MySQL, now expanding into Angular, Node.js and Flutter. He progressed from developer roles at Inswitch to senior positions at Mercado Libre, demonstrating steady responsibility growth and production delivery in high‑traffic environments. Rodrigo contributes to open-source projects like GemRB, where he improved game engine UI behavior and core feature implementations, showing attention to both UX details and low-level refactors. He combines formal engineering training from UdelaR and ongoing IT studies at UTEC with practical commercial experience, enabling rapid learning and reliable problem solving. Known for being responsible and adaptable, he brings a mix of legacy systems expertise and modern full‑stack curiosity useful for migrations and feature-driven development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura Tecnología de la información, Licenciatura Tecnología de la información at UTEC - Universidad TecnológicaIngeniero en Computación Programación modular programación orientada a objetos desarrollo de sistemas, Ingeniero en Computación Programación modular programación orientada a objetos desarrollo de sistemas at Facultad de Ingeniería UdelaRDesarrollador Web PHP/JAVA, Desarrollador Web PHP/JAVA at Inefop. Ametrano y Asociados
inglés técnico
Github Skills (10)
engine10
c-language10
cpp10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
cplus10
python9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gemrb/gemrb
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 11 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily contributes to the game engine's functionality, implementing features and fixing bugs. They worked on door highlighting, shop item overlays, and journal sorting in the game's user interface scripts. The user also refactored color handling and implemented sorting using `std::sort`. Moreover, the user made several modifications on different game features using the core and the display.
pythongameinfinity-enginec-plus-plusisometric
rsantellan/symfony2-maith-users
Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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