Summary
Taro Dragan is a Technical Lead and seasoned JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale web and backend systems for companies from Amazon and Electronic Arts to fintech startups. He currently leads a seven-person team migrating Santander’s flagship banking web app to a modern React microfrontends stack while designing AI-driven workflows used across the company. Comfortable across eight languages and a wide technical surface—Node.js, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes—he combines hands-on coding with leadership roles as Tech Lead, Agile Coach and Scrum Master. He’s an active open-source maintainer, writes about software architecture and cryptography at taro.codes, and has recently fallen in love with Rust, applying it to practical projects. Notably, he’s shipped software used by tens of millions of users and has deep experience integrating complex third-party financial services and real-time media (WebRTC) into production systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
CAE, English, CAE, English at English Teaching Centre
Técnico Programador, Information Technology, Técnico Programador, Information Technology at María Sanchez de Thompson
Ingeniería en Informática, Informática, Ingeniería en Informática, Informática at University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish