Tomás Sarmiento
Software Engineer at Remitly
Temuco, Araucania Region, Chile
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Top SchoolTomás Sarmiento is a software and founding engineer with ~2 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and microservices for high-growth startups, now at Remitly. He helped drive ~70% of backend features at YC-backed Lizza and led a trading-module effort at Hapi App that increased revenue by ~20%, showing a strong track record of shipping mission-critical features. Comfortable in fast, autonomous environments, he has designed and operated multi-service ecosystems (8+ services within a 33+ landscape) and wrestled with financial consistency at scale. Academically engaged, Tomás teaches Distributed Systems and has researched big data architectures for agriculture and wildfire analytics, bringing applied research into production. He’s familiar with DevOps patterns—CI/CD on AWS and Kubernetes for dozens of microservices—and has interviewed and mentored engineers across hiring cycles. Based in Temuco, Chile, he combines startup grit with an academic mindset, favoring hard technical challenges that deliver measurable business impact.
2 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Civil Informática, Ingeniería Civil Informática at Universidad de la FronteraCoding Fellow, Coding Fellow at Makers Fellowship
English, French
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Github Skills (24)
backend-api10
api10
backend10
complexity10
backend-framework10
postgresql9
gcp9
typescript9
aws9
golang9
database9
serverless9
microservices8
azure8
microservice-framework8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tomassarmiento/Django-simple-app
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Felpo123/TicketTrail
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 days
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