Tomás Ferraro
Technical Software Manager (Expert) at Mercado Libre
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolTomás Ferraro is a Technical Software Manager with 11 years of experience leading multi-stack engineering teams and technical governance for large-scale Big Data and Machine Learning initiatives at Mercado Libre. He blends hands-on development expertise in Ruby, Python, Java, Scala and C with cloud architecture (AWS and on-prem CPU) and quality-focused practices like SonarQube enforcement. Known for multiplying team motivation, he champions clear technical paths, cross-team collaboration, and pragmatic design reviews to turn complex requirements into reliable production systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved low-level C tooling—adding terminal-colored logs, hex dump utilities, and tests—to boost developer ergonomics and observability. Trained as an Information Systems Engineer with an industrial electronics background, he brings a rare mix of hardware-minded rigor and software craftsmanship to distributed data platforms. Based in Buenos Aires, he thrives on seeing tangible impact from cohesive, high-performing teams.
11 years of coding experience
Electrician Technician with Industrial Electronics orientation, Electrician Technician with Industrial Electronics orientation at Ing Luis A. Huergo E.T. Nº9Information Systems Engineer, Information Systems Engineer at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
testing9
strings9
text-manipulation9
logging8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sisoputnfrba/so-commons-library
Jul 2016 - Apr 2021
TADs de uso comun en aplicaciones desarrolladas en C
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tomás contributed to the `so-commons-library`, a C library, by adding features and fixing bugs. They implemented terminal color support for log levels, enhancing the library's output readability. The user added functionality for memory hex dumps and string conversions, including test cases. They also addressed a non-C99 mode declaration issue and fixed a leak in the hex dump test.
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tferraro/tacs
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 59 PRs, 123 pushes in 3 months
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