Summary
Sebastián Mena is a pragmatic, self-taught software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web and microservice-based systems from Chile. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack and R&D roles to technical lead positions, delivering high-throughput consumer features (>1M users) and production-ready services using Node.js, Go, Angular, Docker, and Terraform. Comfortable in agile teams, Sebastián emphasizes best practices—TDD, code review, CI/CD and secure, reusable designs—while coordinating cross-team integrations and deployment pipelines. He has repeatedly owned end-to-end solutions, from data scrapers and payment integrations to cloud-native microservices, and brings a curious, improvement-oriented mindset that surfaces practical alternatives and proofs of concept. Currently contracting at GoodLeap, he combines deep implementation skills with leadership in technical planning and delivery.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Titulo Profesional, Analista en Computación Científica, 7, Titulo Profesional, Analista en Computación Científica, 7 at Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Spanish, English