Rodrigo Iloro
Product Engineer at PostHog
Punta Del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolRodrigo Iloro is a product-focused engineer and seasoned technical leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling web products from startups to large platforms. Currently a Product Engineer at PostHog, he has led engineering teams at Zapier and Shogun, driving revenue-impacting projects like pricing and packaging that delivered double-digit ARR gains and hiring programs that built strong TypeScript/React teams. Hands-on across the full stack, Rodrigo has shipped features in high-profile open-source ecosystems—contributing to Automattic’s Jetpack with analytics, UI and billing reliability improvements—and migrated monoliths to serverless and edge runtimes. He pairs pragmatic architecture and developer coaching with product instincts, regularly improving engineering practices, CI, and testing. Based in Punta del Este after starting in Buenos Aires, he balances a thoughtful leadership style with a curious maker mindset—archery, photography, Lego, and coffee craft inform his methodical approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Proud Dropout Information Technology, Proud Dropout Information Technology at Universidad Abierta Interamericana
English, Spanish, klingon
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
google-analytics10
react9
api8
apidoc8
json7
github5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 45 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily focused on enhancing the Google Analytics module within the Jetpack plugin, adding features like pro detection, compatibility updates, and translation capabilities. They contributed to the UI by updating the engagement cards and adding the Google Analytics module. In addition, the user worked on improving the masterbar by adding Tracks instrumentation, which included tracking event initialization, refactoring, and whitelisting redirects. The user also implemented features for simple payments and updated the comments section.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
rodrigoi/game-of-life-backbonejs
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Game of Life Implemented using Backbone.js - Part of a code kata excercise.
Contributions:66 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
gamecode-katabackbonejavascriptexcercise
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