Dwayne Macgowan
Co-Founder at Office Argentina
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolDwayne Macgowan is a bilingual co-founder and software developer with 17 years of professional experience who blends two decades of teaching the DeROSE Method with building SaaS products that streamline school operations. He founded DeROSE.app and DeROSE eBooks to digitize and scale pedagogical workflows, turning internal tools used to manage his own school into commercial offerings for other institutions. Technically hands-on, he has contributed backend improvements to notable open-source projects like typhoeus, adding array-decoding middleware and tests to make Rails integrations more robust. Based in Buenos Aires, he also partners at Office Argentina, demonstrating an ability to operate across product, education, and business roles. Colleagues describe him as an educator-engineer who designs tech with the end learner experience in mind, often drawing on his long-running classroom practice to shape product decisions.
18 years of coding experience
Emprendedor, Método DeRose, Emprendedor, Método DeRose at DeROSE MethodWoodville High School (Bariloche)Sede Cerviño - Monitoreado por Daniel FersztandTécnico, Analista de Sistemas, Técnico, Analista de Sistemas at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AiresExtensión Universitaria, Método DeRose, Extensión Universitaria, Método DeRose at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
ruby-rails10
middleware10
rails10
ruby10
rspec9
nokogiri6
internationalization6
haml6
rvm6
ruby-on-rails6
angularjs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
typhoeus/typhoeus
Nov 2012 - Jul 2013
Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dwayne focused on enhancing the `typhoeus` library, specifically by adding functionality related to decoding arrays encoded as hashes. They implemented a new module, `ArrayDecoder`, which can be used in Rails servers to handle the decoding of arrays. The user also created a middleware to automatically decode arrays, improving ease of use, and included unit tests to ensure the correct functionality of the `ArrayDecoder`. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to how the `encoded?` method identified encoded arrays.
libcurltyphoeus
lperichon/fnz
Mar 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:11 PRs, 528 pushes, 13 branches in 8 years 6 months
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