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Ismael Vargas

Fullstack Developer | Frontend | React | Javascript | Backend | Django | Python

Ismael Vargas is a software developer from Peru with more than six years of professional experience building web applications. He combines strong frontend skills in React and JavaScript with backend expertise in Django and Python, and he enjoys working across the stack to deliver feature‑rich, data‑driven products.

Professional background and credentials

Ismael currently serves as a Full‑Stack Engineer (contract) at Opolis (Aug 2024–present), where he develops new features, builds tests with React Testing Library, Vitest and Cypress, and optimizes application performance through CDN distribution and lazy loading. Alongside this, he freelances as a Frontend Developer (Jan 2024–present), translating Figma designs into responsive UIs, building freight‑management solutions in React and Next.js, and enhancing user experience with Tailwind CSS.

Prior roles include UX Data Analyst at Prey (Apr 2021–Aug 2023), where he implemented analytics event tagging, analyzed user behavior with Python/PostgreSQL, and collaborated on A/B‑tested design iterations; Backend Engineer for La Positiva Seguros’ Digital Transformation Lab (Jun 2020–Mar 2021), designing custom D3/React dashboards, deploying Docker applications on AWS ECS and integrating email/notification services; and Software Engineer at Urbaner (Sep 2018–Mar 2020), building real‑time delivery‑tracking apps with React, Django and WebSockets, performing geospatial analyses with Plotly and Mapbox, and leading data‑science workshops.

Ismael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2012–2017) and has completed several DataCamp certifications in experimental design and data visualization. He is active on GitHub and community forums, publishes data‑driven visualizations (such as custom Grafana extensions) and has written articles on topics like internal party elections in Peru and trends in Stack Overflow survey data. Overall, Ismael is a technically versatile engineer who combines solid programming skills with a passion for analytics, visualization, and continuous learning.

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