Germán Larraín
Entrepreneur at CTO at Sodtrack
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Summary
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SeniorGermán Larraín is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13+ years leading technology strategy, architecture, and engineering teams across startups and scale-ups in Santiago, Chile. As CTO and co-founder roles spanning companies like Cordada, Fynpal, InstaGIS (rebranded Civic Brain/Predictable Media) and now Sodtrack, he combines hands-on Python backend development and cloud-native architecture with enterprise-level security and operational rigor. His background in electrical engineering and a master's in robotics gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that informs pragmatic system design, from embedded/robotics interests to large-scale REST APIs and geospatial services. Known for recruiting and mentoring strong engineering teams, he also instituted modern CI/CD, testing and 12-factor practices at multiple companies. Outside work he channels the same risk-calibrated focus into mountain biking and enduro riding, reflecting a taste for high-skill, high-reward challenges.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
8,141reputation
1.7mreached
20answers
8questions
nginx
top-1%
pip
top-5%
Github Skills (159)
python10
json-schema10
django-framework10
bundler10
javascript10
django10
browser10
validation10
api10
rest10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
commonjs10
nodejs10
http-header10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cordada/gcp-utils-python
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
Fyntex's Python library of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) utils
Contributions:4 releases, 20 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 2 months
gcpgoogle-cloud-platformpythonutils
lookup/lu-dj-utils
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
djangodjango-projectspython
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