Sacha Lifszyc is a bilingual software engineer and frontend specialist with 12 years of experience building user-focused web applications and UI component libraries, currently at Scale AI. He’s led frontend teams and initiatives at Toptal and Restorando, championing Component Driven Development, continuous deployment, and measurable UX improvements. An experienced educator and content creator, he taught thousands via Platzi and his YouTube channel lacocinadelcodigo.com, and has formal teaching experience at Digital House. His open-source work includes full-stack contributions to DemocracyOS and front-end implementations for community projects like platzi/bootstrap, demonstrating comfort across JS, templates, and backend endpoints. Sacha pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on delivery—he even produces marketing video content and edited campaigns that boosted retention—bringing both technical depth and creative problem solving to teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachillerato Técnico con Orientación en Informática, Bachillerato Técnico con Orientación en Informática at Secundario ORT Argentina
Ingeniero en Sistemas de Información Ingeniería de software, Ingeniero en Sistemas de Información Ingeniería de software at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Licenciatura en Economía Economía, Licenciatura en Economía Economía at University of Buenos Aires
Democracia en Red is focusing on specific implementations of DemocracyOS. We are working now working with governments and activists all over Latin America. If you are interested in our online participation tools you can check them out on our site.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1477 commits, 116 PRs, 415 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sacha primarily contributed to both front-end and back-end development, focusing on the implementation of features for tag administration, including form views and templates. The commits also involved server-side endpoint creation and adjustments, indicating responsibilities across multiple layers of the application. They demonstrated expertise in working with code differences across file formats like JavaScript, Jade, and database APIs, enhancing the DemocracyOS platform.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push, 17 branches in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sacha primarily focused on developing the front-end user interface for the project. They implemented the footer, header, a carousel, and content with buttons, and cards using Bootstrap and custom CSS. They also integrated a modal and implemented a tooltip using JavaScript. The project appears to be for a conference website.
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