# Martin Gregorio **Principal Engineer & Software Architect** · Mar del Plata, Argentina [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/magregorio) · [GitHub](https://github.com/martingregorio) ## Summary Principal Engineer and software architect with over 14 years designing backend, cloud and IoT systems. I've built video pipelines for WWE and Canela Media and multi-country fintech with Tigo Money, and today I'm building Armadillo Gaming, an AI-powered gaming table platform. I work with spec-driven development and AI agents, and I teach Software Engineering at IDRA, where I mentor students through projects for real clients. ## Experience ### Software Engineering Teacher — IDRA *2026 – present* · Mar del Plata - Software lifecycle, agile methods, CI/CD, unit testing, metrics and team roles. - Integrations with REST and GraphQL APIs. - I mentor students through the yearly project, a real solution for a real client. **Stack:** GraphQL, GitHub Actions ### Founder & Software Architect — Armadillo Gaming *Jan 2025 – present* · Mar del Plata - I founded and lead a product that combines hardware and software. I coordinate the team that designs the modular solid-wood tables, builds their electronics and crafts them. - Designed the IoT platform end to end, from the devices to the cloud, on AWS with infrastructure as code. - Built an AI board game coach that teaches games and answers rules questions out loud, with answers that cite the rulebook. - Implemented signed over-the-air firmware updates with automatic rollback. - I work with spec-driven development and AI agents, backed by versioned contracts and CI quality gates. **Stack:** Go, TypeScript, NestJS, Svelte, PostgreSQL, MQTT, AWS, Terraform / OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, LLMs (Claude, Gemini), RAG and embeddings, AI agents ### Programming 2 Teacher — IDRA *Feb 2022 – Jul 2023* · Mar del Plata - Programming languages, object-oriented programming and SOLID principles. ### Principal Engineer · Canela Media — intive (ex Spark Digital) *2022 – present* · Mar del Plata (remote) - Own the full media pipeline, from the moment a rightsholder's source file arrives until the content is available to customers. - Mezzanine and proxy transcoding, and automated delivery to QuickPlay and Brightcove. - Integrated Vionlabs to extract metadata and ad breaks from proxies, speeding up the content team's work. - CI/CD with GitHub Actions and infrastructure with Terraform on AWS. **Stack:** TypeScript, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform / OpenTofu, GitHub Actions ### Senior Engineer / Tech Lead · WWE — intive (ex Spark Digital) *Sep 2016 – 2022* · Mar del Plata (remote) - Built the internal system that transcodes video with on-premise AWS Elemental Server and delivers it to WWE.com, WWE Network, YouTube, Peacock and Sony LIV. - Owned the MDM, whose master records each platform inherits metadata from and overrides to meet its own requirements. - CI/CD with GitLab, and services in Laravel, NestJS and Go on AWS. **Stack:** Laravel, Vue, NestJS, MySQL, Beanstalkd, Redis, Go, AWS, AWS Elemental, GitLab CI ### PHP Developer → Tech Lead — Globant *Aug 2014 – Sep 2016* · Mar del Plata - For Millicom/TIGO, I built the Tigo Money backend, a Phalcon REST API connecting the mobile apps to each carrier's SOAP middleware. - I rolled it out in Honduras, Guatemala and Bolivia, and supported El Salvador and Tanzania. I started as a developer and became tech lead. - Then I worked on Handler, a Laravel marketplace for booking home services such as electricians, plumbers or cleaning. **Stack:** PHP, Phalcon, Laravel, MySQL ### Software consultant and developer — Freelance *Jul 2012 – present* · Mar del Plata - Since 2017 I've built and maintained the CRM of a children's charity foundation, which generates its donors' direct debits across seven card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Cabal and Naranja, among others). - In 2026 I rebuilt it on Symfony 8 and AWS, with infrastructure as code, CI/CD and atomic deploys with automatic rollback, for about 10 dollars a month. - Consulting and development on Laravel projects. **Stack:** PHP, Symfony, Laravel, MySQL, AWS, Terraform / OpenTofu, GitHub Actions ## Projects ### [This site](https://github.com/martingregorio/site) (2026) Author. A personal site that is a fish-style terminal, built with Astro and Svelte. **Stack:** Astro, Svelte, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform / OpenTofu ### Armadillo Gaming (2025) Founder & architect. Modular IoT gaming tables with AI that set the mood of every game with light and sound, and teach you how to play. **Stack:** Go, TypeScript, NestJS, Svelte, PostgreSQL, MQTT, AWS, Terraform / OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, LLMs (Claude, Gemini), RAG and embeddings, Python ### Media pipeline for Canela Media (2022) Principal Engineer. Video ingest, transcoding and delivery, from the rightsholder's file to QuickPlay and Brightcove. **Stack:** TypeScript, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform / OpenTofu, GitHub Actions ### Transcoding and metadata for WWE (2016) Senior Engineer / Tech Lead. Internal system that transcodes and delivers video to WWE Network, YouTube, Peacock and Sony LIV, with a metadata MDM. **Stack:** Laravel, Vue, NestJS, MySQL, Beanstalkd, Redis, Go, AWS, AWS Elemental, GitLab CI ### Tigo Money (2014) Developer → Tech lead. Backend for Millicom/TIGO's mobile wallet, rolled out across several Latin American countries. **Stack:** PHP, Phalcon, MySQL ## Skills - **Architecture and cloud:** AWS, AWS Elemental, Terraform / OpenTofu, MQTT, IoT - **Backend:** Go, TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PHP, Laravel, Symfony, GraphQL, RabbitMQ - **Frontend:** Vue, Svelte, Astro - **Data:** PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB - **AI:** LLMs (Claude, Gemini), RAG / embeddings, AI agents - **DevOps:** GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker ## Education - **Higher Technician in Programming**, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Mar del Plata (2011 – 2013) - **Computer Engineering (partial studies)**, Universidad FASTA (2006 – 2011) ## Languages - **Spanish:** Native - **English:** Professional working proficiency ## Certifications - Go: The Complete Developer's Guide (Golang) - RabbitMQ and Messaging Concepts - gRPC [Golang] Master Class: Build Modern API & Microservices - Software Architecture for the Enterprise Architect - M121: The MongoDB Aggregation Framework (MongoDB University)