Santiago Buenahora
Building Something New at Stealth Startup
Mexico City
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Buenahora is a software engineer and founder with a decade of experience building products and early-stage startups, currently based in Mexico City. He has held engineering roles at Robinhood and internships at Microsoft and Affirm, and founded MarcoPolo (YC W21) before launching an accelerator and now a stealth venture. Santiago spans full-stack development—contributing front-end fixes and UX polish to open-source projects like hack4impact/flask-base—while also merging upstream changes to keep dependencies and UI frameworks current. He combines hands-on coding with founder-level product instincts, often focusing on shipping pragmatic improvements that improve developer and user experience. An interesting through-line is his mix of startup-building and technical leadership in nonprofit and academic settings, reflecting both entrepreneurial grit and community-minded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
W21, W21 at Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
html-template10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
user-authentication9
boilerplate9
authentication9
sqlalchemy8
redis7
user-management7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hack4impact/flask-base
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
A simple Flask boilerplate app with SQLAlchemy, Redis, User Authentication, and more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Flask application, modifying form macros within the app's templates. These changes involved fixing radio button bugs, adding custom select features, and ensuring proper styling. Additionally, the user merged in updates from the main branch, likely incorporating new features or bug fixes related to the application's overall functionality and dependencies, including Semantic UI.
redispythonboilerplatesqlalchemyuser-management
hack4impact-upenn/member-bios
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
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