Rodrigo Vilina
Araucania Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolRodrigo Vilina is a senior backend engineer and mentor with nine years of experience crafting well-tested Ruby on Rails applications and raising developer skill across teams. At Toptal he designed and taught a six-month backend academy, led real product development, and evangelized gradual typing with Sorbet to over 100 colleagues. He consistently drives code quality improvements—raising test coverage from ~30% to ~70% at previous roles—and champions refactoring, design patterns, and metric-driven engineering. Rodrigo combines hands-on delivery with coaching: he runs regular 1:1s, pair programs across experience levels, and builds learning materials and workshops. A perpetual learner and polyglot, he brings a curious, gardener’s approach to software—cultivating maintainable systems while enjoying fixed-gear biking, linguistics, and time in nature.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (103)
sorbet10
testing10
rspec10
mvc10
coverage10
ruby10
cjs10
iso10
linter10
mutant10
test-coverage10
static-analysis10
code-review10
keyboard10
mutation-testing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rodrigovilina/muina
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 23 PRs in 4 months
dddrailsruntimesorbetruby
gangSeven/adaLearning
Sep 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 7 branches, 2 issues in 3 years 9 months
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