Rodrigo Herrera
CTO at Locker in the City
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolRodrigo Herrera is a pragmatic CTO and engineering leader based in Montevideo with 14+ years of experience designing, building and scaling distributed full‑stack systems across startups and consulting engagements. He has progressed from mainframe and banking systems to Python/Node backends and cloud deployments, leading teams at Tryolabs and delivering product-focused engineering as a consultant at ThoughtWorks and OrbitalAds. Since 2022 he’s been steering technical strategy and delivery at Locker in the City, blending hands‑on development with people management and client-facing responsibilities. Comfortable across the stack—backend, frontend and AWS—he repeatedly translates complex requirements into maintainable, deployed solutions. An engineer at heart, he pairs early-career exposure to low‑level banking systems with modern web and cloud practices, giving him an uncommon perspective on reliability and operational tradeoffs.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Computación, Ingeniero en Computación at Universidad de la República
Spanish, English, Italian
Github Skills (8)
aws-lambda10
amazon-web-services10
amazon10
aws9
scalable9
serverless9
image-processing5
saas3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tryolabs/aws-workshop
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
Learn to deploy real applications in a scalable way, using Amazon Web Services.
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years
scalableamazonserverlessaws-lambdaweb-services
tryolabs/django-reporting
May 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 6 days
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