Santiago Vargas
Applications Developer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Vargas is an applications developer and full-stack software engineer with over two decades of experience and a focused 11-year track record in applied enterprise and research settings. He specializes in Java/J2EE and Ruby on Rails, with deep skills across backend services, REST APIs, SQL (MySQL/Postgres), and front-end technologies including JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/Sass, and AJAX. Santiago has delivered mission-critical systems for biomedical research and healthcare institutions, including leading the SMART IRB Reliance migration and decommissioning legacy J2EE stacks. He pairs hands-on coding, refactoring and design-pattern expertise with mentoring and cross-functional technical planning, and is fluent in English and Spanish which helps him translate complex technical issues for non-technical stakeholders. Beyond production work he has contributed reusable tools like an internal Ruby gem for spam filtering and driven BDD adoption and knowledge-sharing at Harvard Catalyst. Based in the United States, he combines engineering discipline with a practical product mindset born from long-term work in both academia and industry.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Mathematics at Coe CollegeTechnical Writing Course, Technical Writing Course at San José State UniversityHigh School, High School at Academia Santa MariaSystems Science and Engineering, Systems Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. LouisInformation Technology, Information Technology at Harvard Extension School
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
image-viewer10
bam9
sequencing9
data-management9
fasta8
genomics8
java-api8
crm8
ruby-on-rails7
sam7
hpc7
java6
rails1
jquery1
ruby1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
melonistic/restructure
Nov 2022 - Jun 2026
Structure, track, recruit, screen, navigate and review human subjects research studies.
Contributions:125 pushes, 13 branches, 51 comments in 3 years 7 months
navigatesubjectsreviewrecruit
WashU-IT-RIS/coldfront-wustl-fork
Feb 2024 - Jul 2026
HPC Resource Allocation System
Contributions:306 reviews, 49 PRs, 447 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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