Samuel Chávez
Software Engineer at Argo
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Chávez is a software engineer and former CTO/co-founder with 10+ years building scalable web platforms, leading engineering teams, and shipping production-grade systems. He has blended hands-on architecture and frontend expertise with people leadership—boosting team eNPS to 100% and cutting infrastructure costs in half by refactoring microservices and moving to multi-tenant architectures. Samuel has led product-facing engineering at startups and larger firms (including a Senior SWE stint at Meta) while teaching university courses in programming and AI, launching an open-source AI tournament project for board games. He excels at observability and developer experience, having slashed incident diagnosis times from an hour to ten minutes and dramatically reduced site load times through targeted front-end re-architecting. Comfortable translating product and business needs into technical roadmaps, he pairs a data-first approach to UI with strong operational instincts in cloud-native environments. Based in Toronto, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a long track record of mentoring and scaling engineering practices across teams and products.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Cloud Developer, Computer Software Engineering, Cloud Developer, Computer Software Engineering at UdacityLicentiate degree, Computer Science, Licentiate degree, Computer Science at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Spanish, English
Github Skills (40)
react-router8
javascript7
dataflow-programming7
redux7
sdk7
authentication7
flow-based-programming6
react6
thunk6
css6
webpack6
jwt-authentication6
web-development5
higher-order-component5
android5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
samuelchvez/common-reducers
May 2020 - May 2021
Common reducers used in various of my projects. This repo is not meant to be a general purpose library.
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
my-projectsreducerspurposekotlinjava
samuelchvez/open-1v1-board-game-coordinator-admin
Apr 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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