Rodrigo Dato is a Success Engineer with 12 years of experience bridging backend development and customer-facing technical support, currently at Metabase after recent roles at Flagsmith and FOSSA. A Systems Engineering graduate from UTN FRBA, he has worked at high-scale companies including Amazon and Toggl Track, combining production-grade engineering with hands-on customer success. Rodrigo contributes to open-source tooling—improving dotenv-safe with robust error handling, tests and dependency upgrades—showing attention to developer experience and edge-case reliability. Based in Esquel, Argentina, he brings a multidisciplinary curiosity spanning technology, science and teaching, and a proven ability to translate complex systems into clear solutions for users and teams.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bilingual High School Diploma Natural Sciences, Bilingual High School Diploma Natural Sciences at St. Paul's College, Hurlingham
Information Systems Engineering, Information Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Elementary School, Elementary School at International School of Brussels
Load environment variables from .env and ensure they are all present
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:72 commits, 40 PRs, 75 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo significantly contributed to the `dotenv-safe` library by adding and enhancing critical features. They implemented a custom error class and improved error messages for better user feedback. The user also fixed bugs related to test setup and environment variable handling, and upgraded dependencies. Their work included writing tests to ensure the library's correct functionality, including handling edge cases with missing or empty environment variables.
Easily generate a Let's Encrypt certificate for GitLab Pages
Contributions:69 commits, 10 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 1 month
letsencryptlets-encryptgitlab-pagesgitlablet
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