Xavier De Garay
Principal Software Engineer at Koltin
Mexico City
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier De Garay is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, payments and fintech products across startups and scale-ups. He’s shipped payment, fiscal and insurance platforms at Sofía and drove partnerships engineering at Gusto, combining Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, PHP frameworks and modern JS stacks with AWS-based infrastructure. A former founder and product lead, he repeatedly turns ambiguous product problems into production-ready services and has deep practical experience in offline payments and ride-sharing logistics. Based in Mexico City, he blends an MBA-backed business perspective with hands-on engineering, making him effective at cross-functional leadership and vendor/partner integrations. Notably, his career spans founding multiple ventures and directing microloan operations early on, which gives him uncommon domain empathy for financial product design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration and Management General, MBA Business Administration and Management General at Macquarie Business SchoolIngeniero Industrial y de Sistemas, Ingeniero Industrial y de Sistemas at Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Spanish
Github Skills (165)
hotmail10
adobe10
magento10
affiliates10
ecommerce10
php10
mandrill9
gps-tracking9
mailchimp9
gps9
gmail9
simple-email-service9
cordova-plugin9
react-native9
ios9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
degaray/openpay-php-client
Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 16 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 3 months
openpaynamespacesguzzle
SofiaSalud/stpmex-python
Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
Python client library for STP (stpmex.com)
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pythonclient-librarypython-clientstppython3
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