Rodrigo Bistolfi
Senior Software Engineer at Freelancer
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolRodrigo Bistolfi is a senior software engineer based in Buenos Aires with 16 years of professional experience and over a decade focused on e-learning platforms. He brings deep, polyglot engineering skills across Python, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Lisp and Lua, paired with practical Linux and customer-facing experience from long freelance and self-employed work. Rodrigo contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Nikola static site generator, where he improved ReST directives and test coverage for multimedia integrations. Trained in philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, he blends analytical thinking with pragmatic engineering to tackle complex content and tooling problems. Comfortable moving between backend refactors and integration work, he’s known for shipping reliable, well-tested extensions that improve developer and user experience.
16 years of coding experience
Philosophy, Philosophy at University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
restructuredtext10
python10
static-site-generator10
testing9
youtube7
soundcloud7
vimeo7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
getnikola/nikola
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
A static website and blog generator
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the Nikola static website generator's ReST extensions. Their work included refactoring existing directives, such as `listing`, `code-block`, and the implementation of new directives for soundcloud, vimeo, and youtube. They also created test cases to ensure the proper functionality of the ReST extensions. This involved modifying existing code and creating new files for the purpose of extension testing.
pythonstatic-siteblog-generatorjavascriptmarkdown
rbistolfi/NoSQLite
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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