Staff / Lead Software Engineer | Platform Architect

Pablo Canales

Hands-on software architect and technical leader with 20 years of experience building and modernizing multi-tenant SaaS products, digital marketplaces, public-sector systems, and client-facing applications. Combines backend and full-stack engineering, cloud infrastructure, technical planning, and mentoring to turn ambiguous business problems into maintainable production systems. Leadership experience includes CTO and engineering-management roles while remaining directly involved in architecture, implementation, code review, debugging, and production operations. Currently leading Ouro's configurable business-operations platform, including workflow automation, document generation, integrations, real-time services, and AI-assisted capabilities.

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Professional Experience

CTO

Ouro

Santiago, Chile · Remote
–Present

  • Own technical direction and remain hands-on in the architecture and implementation of a multi-tenant platform for managing complex business operations.
  • Designed a modular, configurable platform spanning CRM and sales, service operations, procurement and inventory, accounting, documents, reporting, and custom business resources.
  • Established a Python and FastAPI backend architecture with PostgreSQL, Redis, containerized services, object storage, search, background processing, and real-time communication.
  • Designed schema-driven resources and multi-step workflow automation that allow organizations to model domain-specific processes through reusable platform capabilities.
  • Extended the platform with document generation, integrations, and AI-assisted capabilities supporting multiple operational domains.
  • Guide architectural decisions by clarifying the underlying problem, evaluating tradeoffs, and choosing the simplest design that can evolve safely.
  • Partner with product, clients, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into maintainable capabilities; standardized Docker-based development and deployment workflows to improve consistency across environments and reduce operational friction.

Technical Manager

Squaredance

Toronto, Canada · Remote
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  • Managed and mentored a four-developer team while contributing directly to implementation, production debugging, architecture decisions, and code review.
  • Owned technical planning and delivery coordination across engineering, product, and executive stakeholders; translated product priorities into scoped technical work and resolved implementation risks across concurrent initiatives.
  • Introduced a lightweight two-week planning and review cadence, focused standups, and retrospectives tailored to the team's needs rather than applying process mechanically.
  • Balanced new product work with maintenance and evolution of an established affiliate-marketing platform, protecting engineering quality while continuing to ship.

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Jumbleberry

Toronto, Canada · Remote
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  • Co-designed and built an affiliate-marketing marketplace from early architecture through production evolution.
  • Led early frontend architecture and development with Vue.js and Webpack, then contributed to the migration to Vite as the application and team grew.
  • Expanded from frontend ownership into backend and platform work using PHP, Phalcon, Python services, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Worked across product and system boundaries to deliver features, investigate production behavior, and evolve a growing platform without losing delivery momentum.

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Asimov

Santiago, Chile
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  • Led multiple client projects concurrently, from requirements and technical design through implementation and delivery.
  • Guided and supervised developers while remaining responsible for core engineering work, architecture, and technical problem-solving.
  • Built web and mobile applications using PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, Vue.js, Java, and Apache Cordova.
  • Maintained server infrastructure and advised clients on practical technology choices aligned with business constraints.

Web Developer

Jumbleberry

Toronto, Canada · Remote
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  • Built and maintained internal applications that improved day-to-day workflows across company departments.
  • Worked across PHP applications, Linux infrastructure, AWS, and Chef-based deployment automation.

Web Developer

Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia

Santiago, Chile
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  • Designed and built applications for Chilean government institutions using CodeIgniter, Symfony, and Laravel.
  • Acted as a technical consultant to public-sector teams, helping define projects, evaluate implementation approaches, and coordinate effectively with external providers.
  • Contributed to national Open Data, Open Government, and citizen-participation initiatives.
  • Built internal REST APIs with Node.js while the organization evaluated newer platform technologies.

Earlier Experience

Web Developer

People&Chess

Santiago, Chile
–

Built corporate and e-commerce websites and managed Linux-based web infrastructure using PHP, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, JavaScript, and CSS.

Web Developer

Digitaria

Santiago, Chile
–

Delivered corporate websites for agency clients using PHP-based content management systems and frontend technologies.

Web Developer

Defontana

Santiago, Chile
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Maintained and improved a commercial online ERP platform using Microsoft technologies, including VB, .NET, SQL Server, and JavaScript.