Tobias Perry

experience

• 2026

  Pluscargo

  , Software Engineer (Contract) · San Francisco

  I've been working with Pluscargo, building an onboarding platform and automating workflows for their sales team.

• 2025 – 2026

  Tecla Academy AI

  , Backend & AI Engineer · CDMX (Remote)

  At Tecla I was one of the first engineers and helped build the core platform as the company grew into one of the leading edtech companies in Mexico.

projects

Most of these were built with friends and classmates. See each repo's contributors on GitHub for the full team.

• 2026
  FlowScout , An AI-powered QA platform that autonomously tests web apps, identifies bugs, and files developer-friendly GitHub issues with actionable context.
• 2025
  Nutrisense , Inspired by the child malnutrition problem in Argentina, an end-to-end AI nutritional platform that generates personalized meal plans and recipes for families, scrapes local supermarket prices, and assembles an optimized shopping list. Documented in a thesis paper selected for university publication.
• 2025
  Extreme Makeover: DPS , Refactored a legacy API into hexagonal architecture: clean ports & adapters boundaries separating domain, application, user interface, and infrastructure layers.
• 2024
  Cripto: BMP Steganography + Encryption , A Java CLI that hides and extracts files inside BMP images using LSB1, LSB4, or LSBI steganography, with optional AES (128, 192, or 256) or 3DES encryption across ECB, CFB, OFB, and CBC modes.
• 2024
  Distributed Ticket Analytics (Hazelcast) , Distributed analytics over traffic-fine data from NYC and Chicago: five map-reduce queries (top infractions per borough, top-N agencies by collection, cross-infraction pair analysis) running across a multi-node Hazelcast cluster.
• 2024
  Truckr , A full-stack web marketplace connecting shippers with truckers, built in Spring with a React frontend.
• 2024
  LendARead2 , A scalable production environment on AWS (ECS Fargate, ALB, CloudFront, ECR, RDS), managed entirely through Terraform.
• 2024
  Distributed Airport Operations (gRPC) , A distributed airport-operations system built on gRPC: sectors, counters, airlines, and passengers as independently runnable clients coordinated through typed protobuf contracts, with admin/query/events control planes.
• 2023
  POP3 Server , A POP3 mail server written in C, with multi-user support and a companion admin-monitor client for runtime inspection and control over a versioned protocol.
• 2022
  Stockify , Tokenizes company equity as ERC20 tokens with milestone-linked escrow: Solidity smart contracts (tested in Hardhat) manage per-company ICOs: if the company hits its pre-committed objectives the funds release, otherwise investors are refunded. Winning project at Hackathon T-Dev (Dec 2022).
• 2022
  marcOS , A small x64 teaching operating system: context switching, two user programs running side-by-side, and independent exception handling so a fault in one process doesn't take the OS down.
• 2022
  Step , A workout-tracking Android app, written in Kotlin with Jetpack.

education

• 2020 – 2025
  Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), BS and MS, Computer Engineering & Software Architecture

  Top 10% of the engineering class · 3.5 out of 4.0 GPA

• 2018 – 2019
  IB Diploma, Mathematics, Physics, and Economics at HL

misc

• ongoing
  Off the clock

  Amateur rugby at Club San Andrés. Surfing, kitesurfing, and other watersports.

• 2021
  Vail Resorts, Ski & snowboard instructor
• 2017 – 2019
  Haciendo Camino, Volunteer

  Helped organize and fundraise multiple volunteer tours to Santiago del Estero, and joined the trips, to support the NGO's work fighting child malnutrition in rural Argentina.

• 2019
  St Andrews Debate Team, Member

  Competed in debate contests in English and Spanish. Won multiple events and received individual recognition across tournaments organized by the Asociación de Debate Argentina (ADA).

• 2017 – 2019
  Olimpiadas Matemáticas Argentinas (OMA), Finalist

  Reached the finals three years in a row in Argentina's national youth mathematics competition.

• languages
  Spanish, Native

  English, Bilingual

  Portuguese, Fluent, passed the CILP A2 exam

other

Smaller experiments and demos.

• Off-lattice automata

  A flock of self-propelled agents at constant speed, with random initial positions and directions. A noise term η drives the randomness as each agent recomputes its direction from its neighbors'.

• Mission to Mars

  A 2D simulation of a space mission to Mars using real NASA ephemeris data.

• Granular soccer match

  A granular-dynamics simulation of a soccer match: players and ball modeled as interacting particles.

• VR game (Unity)

  A VR game built in Unity.