Software Engineer

Pato
Anabalon

18+ years turning complex ideas into accessible products people enjoy using.

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01 — About Me

About Me

It was 1996. I was 12 when I met my first computer — and fell for it instantly. Not long after, I broke it trying to make it faster. Almost three decades on, that same obsession still drives me: making complicated things feel effortless. Today it takes the shape of an 18-year career as a Senior Software Engineer across banking, real estate, and aviation.

Now I'm at LATAM Airlines, working on one of Latin America's largest e-commerce platforms. In an IT organisation of ~400 engineers I'm the person teammates come to when the code needs to be right — not just shipped. In 2026 I received LATAM's Service Leaders award, which quietly confirms what I've always believed: you can lead without giving up the keyboard.

What's next? Ideally Auckland — I spent late 2025 there studying English at NZLC and fell completely for the city, its people, and its culture. I'm looking for a company willing to sponsor a work visa (my immigration advisor makes that part painless). Conversations with teams elsewhere are also welcome. If you value craft as much as outcomes, let's talk.

🇳🇿Santiago, Chile → Auckland, New Zealand

Years of experience

Companies

Industry awards

02 — Experience

Experience

A career built on delivery, leadership & continuous growth

Now

Mar 2024 – Present

LATAM Airlines

Senior Front End Developer

Developed and maintained fare-family and seat-selection workflows across LATAM's e-commerce platforms, ensuring performance and reliability under peak-season traffic.
Designed and shipped a Premium Economy full-on experiment on ABSmartly that lifted premium-cabin ticket purchases by +42.78% (n=146K, 12 weeks, 95% CI +10.9% to +62.3%) — variant rolled out to production.
Raised test coverage from 82% to 97% on fare-selection and seat-selection critical artefacts (web + BFF), reducing regressions on the checkout's highest-traffic flows.
Participated in the leadership of the Engage & Booking cluster and automated internal processes and reporting.
Recognised as LATAM Service Leader for cross-team contribution.

Milestone

2026

Service Leader Award

LATAM Service Leader — recognized for Safety, Sustainability and J.E.T.S. values

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LATAM · Award ceremony

Feb 2021 – Feb 2024

Globant

Senior Software Engineer

Built customer-facing modules of LATAM's booking platform (React, Next.js, Node.js) in a micro-services architecture serving ~330K daily users.
Delivered performance-focused UI components in Svelte and React, reducing load times and improving UX on key conversion flows.
Mentored 3 semi-senior engineers over 8 months — 2 promoted to Senior — through pair-programming, code reviews and career-development guidance.
Awarded 'Constantly Innovate' 2022 — company-wide peer-voted recognition for consistent innovation across the organisation.

Milestone

2022

Constantly Innovate Award

Constantly Innovate — annual company-wide award given for being the most recognized employee at StarMeUp with the value of constantly innovation

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Globant · Globant together 2022

Apr 2019 – Dec 2020

Amicar S.A.

Software Development Manager

Led a 10-person cross-functional team (frontend, backend, Salesforce) through Amicar's digital transformation, delivering the full digital-sales platform in 12 months.
Rebuilt the credit-calculation engine API from the ground up, cutting the delivery time of a loan's financial data from 8s to under 800ms — a 10× performance gain.
Architected and led the platform migration from ASP 2.0 / COM+ / SQL Server to React.js / PostgreSQL / MongoDB, improving overall performance by 45% and enabling native integrations with Salesforce and 6 financial institutions.

Sep 2018 – Dec 2020

Mink Startup

Co-Founder & CTO

In parallel with Amicar.
Co-founded and led the technical strategy of a proptech startup focused on real estate investment.
Developed the "Webi" real estate investment platform as full-stack developer.
Represented the startup in Start-Up Chile G19 acceleration programme.

Milestone

2019

Start-Up Chile G19

Selected for Start-Up Chile G19 acceleration programme

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Mink · Pitch day

Mar 2007 – Dec 2017

Indexa S.A.

Developer Analyst & Technical Leader

Optimised the automotive credit-calculation engine, reducing response times by 50% across all downstream integrations.
Built the platform's first design system, standardising UI components and accelerating delivery across new client integrations.
Acted as primary technical point of contact for 5 enterprise clients — Scotiabank, BICE Crediautos, Tanner, Amicar Chile and Amicar Perú — aligning delivery with each client's SLAs and integration requirements.
Acted as Technical Lead guiding architectural decisions and mentoring junior developers.

Milestone

2007 → 2026

18+

Years of experience shipping quality production code across various industries and technologies

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03 — Skills

Skills

Chapter · 01

Frontend

Framework fluency across Next.js, React, Svelte and Vue, in TypeScript and JavaScript.

Next.js

React.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

Svelte

Vue

Chapter · 02

Design & UI

Styling, design systems and accessibility — Tailwind, Material UI, Figma, A11y and i18n.

CSS

Tailwind CSS

Bootstrap

Styled Components

Material UI

Material Design

Storybook

Figma

A11y

i18n

Chapter · 03

Backend

Server-side systems, APIs and business logic across Node, Python, .NET and PHP.

Node.js

Python

.NET C#

PHP

GraphQL

REST APIs

COM+

Chapter · 04

Database

Relational and NoSQL stores — PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server and MySQL.

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Chapter · 05

Cloud

Provisioning and scaling on AWS, GCP and modern edge platforms with Terraform.

AWS

Google Cloud

Terraform

Vercel

Chapter · 06

AI Tools

Working alongside Claude, Cursor and Codex to move faster with intent.

Claude

Cursor

Codex

Chapter · 07

Testing

Unit, component and end-to-end coverage with Jest, RTL, Cypress, Playwright and WebdriverIO.

Jest

React Testing Library

Cypress

Playwright

WebdriverIO

Chapter · 08

DevOps

Version control and delivery pipelines — Git platforms, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins and Heroku.

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

TortoiseSVN

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Jenkins

Heroku

Chapter · 09

Observability & APIs

Metrics, analytics, docs and integrations — Grafana, Dynatrace, Looker, Swagger, SendGrid, Slack API and ABSmartly.

Grafana

Dynatrace

Looker Studio

Swagger

SendGrid

Slack API

ABSmartly

Chapter · 10

Dev Tools

Code quality, planning boards, agile methods and platform integrations that keep teams shipping.

SonarQube

Jira / Confluence

Trello

Scrum / Kanban

Lean

Salesforce

Chapter · 11

Creative

When not writing code: motion graphics, video editing, visual and technical design.

After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Adobe Premiere

Photoshop

AutoCAD

SketchUp

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04 — Creative Work

Creative Work

Outside of engineering, I create audiovisual content — from motion graphics to video production. I use After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, and Photoshop to tell stories through moving images.

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