Senior Software Engineer · Mexico
Building agentic workflows on top of promotional asset systems at Netflix. Part of the team behind an experiment that flew to the International Space Station.
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01 / Selected work
Eight years of building systems that have to stay up—for a streaming service, a bank serving tens of millions, and a platform handling hundreds of billions of events.
Netflix
Apr 2023 — Present
Builds agentic workflows on top of promotional asset systems behind marketing campaigns for Netflix titles—the pipeline that moves creative assets from studios to screens worldwide.
Collaborates across teams to keep it scalable, observable, and fast for the people who depend on it every day.
Nubank
Aug 2021 — Apr 2023
Led the design and operation of projects shaping how people apply for Nubank's products. Mentored mid-level engineers toward ownership, interviewed across the hiring pipeline, and founded community initiatives (Building Nu MX Meetups).
Wizeline
Aug 2018 — Jul 2021
Worked on a platform processing hundreds of billions of events monthly for major US broadcasters; built identity and authorization flows for a leading entertainment company; and developed a chatbot for the largest US real-estate company.
Promoted from trainee to SE III in three years.
Independent project
2026
An annotated code explorer that helps beginners understand LLM-generated Expo / React Native code through interactive highlights and inline annotations.
Visit project02 / The space experiment
The uncommon part of an engineering career—an experiment flown to the International Space Station.
Aboard SpaceX CRS-31 · November 2024
A biomimetic smart material inspired by muscle fibers, tested aboard the International Space Station through the MISSE module to withstand extreme orbital temperatures. Built with Mat X Space, a Mexican youth collective—and covered by Forbes Mexico and El País.
03 / Writing, talks & press
A small index of moments when the work met an audience—most of it in Spanish.
04 / About
Ivan Galaviz is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, where he builds the agentic workflows for promotional assets power marketing campaigns for titles worldwide. His work lives where distributed systems meet human craft—and occasionally, it leaves the atmosphere.
Before Netflix he was a Senior Engineer at Nubank (Clojure) and an engineer at Wizeline (Go, Python), helping platforms process hundreds of billions of events. He studied computer engineering in Guadalajara, and in 2024 an experiment he helped build flew to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX CRS-31.
Ivan offers one-on-one software engineering mentorship in English and Spanish, covering system design, career growth, technical interviews, and moving from Latin America to global tech. Sessions are remote, last 45 minutes, and cost 500 MXN.
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04.1 / Tools & practice
What the work is built with—kept current, used with intent.
Languages
Cloud & data
Paradigms & AI
04.2 / Education & service
Where the foundations came from, and where time is given to others learning the craft.
Terminal project: a news scraper for Mexican outlets with NLP-based violence classification.
Web presence & content strategy. Built matxspace.com and blog.matxspace.com.
Supporting girls in identifying community problems and building mobile-app solutions.
My team, International Girlies, reached global semifinals in 2026!
Designed courses on chatbot development, taught JavaScript and Go, and led English→ASL initiatives.
04.3 / Recognition
Awards and distinctions along the way.
Baku '23 & Milan '24 — with Mat X Space
International Air & Space Program ↗
Excellence Award · EGEL
Programa Delfín
05 / Contact
Open to interesting work, collaborations, and the occasional mentoring conversation.
