Santiago Avendaño
Arquitecto De Software at InvGate
Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolSantiago Avendaño is a software architect with 12 years of experience designing modular, scalable systems and driving quality across the full development lifecycle. Based in Chivilcoy, Argentina, he combines deep Python expertise with a background in large Java enterprise projects, currently shaping architecture and delivery at InvGate. He contributes to notable open-source work—enhancing django-rest-framework-json-api with GenericRelations support and performance optimizations—demonstrating strong framework internals knowledge. A seasoned mentor and instructor (FCEN, UBA), he pairs hands-on coding with teaching and internal training to raise team capabilities. His career spans telecom, government, and enterprise domains, where he has led quality assurance initiatives for large, multi-team systems. Santiago’s pragmatic focus is transforming complex technical challenges into efficient, maintainable solutions while championing agile best practices.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Computación Computación, Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Computación Computación at University of Buenos Aires
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (15)
modeler10
django-rest10
data-serialization10
object-mapping10
orm10
json-api10
modello10
django-rest-framework10
python10
modeling10
django10
serialization10
pytest9
testing9
postgresql7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
django-json-api/django-rest-framework-json-api
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
JSON:API support for Django REST framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Santiago contributed significantly to the `django-rest-framework-json-api` project, focusing on extending its capabilities and improving code quality. They added support for GenericRelations, addressing a key feature request. The user also worked on performance optimizations, avoiding query explosions for related fields, and addressed issues related to dependencies and rendering of related objects. Their contributions included modifying serializers, renderers, models, and tests, showing a solid understanding of the framework's internals.
apipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangorest-framework
santiavenda2/pyarweb
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
sitiopythonpython3nuevo
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