Senior Software Engineer · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Martin Schvartz

I build products end to end, from Go services to React interfaces, for millions of people.

8+ years shipping software at scale: four years at Mercado Libre on subscriptions and shipping, and now the retail platform that PepsiCo, AB InBev and Kroger use in their stores every day.

Lately I've been working on AI agents, and the unglamorous parts that make them reliable: harnesses, evals and guardrails.

Portrait of Martin
years building products
8+
users on platforms I've shipped to
220M+
with US teams, in English
Remote
currently studying Computer Science
CS

Software I've built is used at

  • Mercado Libre
  • PepsiCo
  • AB InBev
  • Kroger
  • Flowers Foods
  • Wendy's

Selected work

Things I've built that people use every day.

FORM 2026 – now

FORM (GoSpotCheck) is the platform field teams at some of the biggest consumer brands use to run their work in stores: tasks on a mobile app, shelf and cooler photos read by AI image recognition, and reports that tell a brand what's actually on the shelf. I'm a senior engineer on the team building it.

GoSpotCheck by FORM

Retail execution with AI image recognition

A rep takes a photo of a shelf; the platform finds out-of-stocks, prices and planogram issues, and turns them into the next task for the team.

  • Image recognition
  • Workflows
  • Mobile
  • Analytics

Mercado Libre 2021 – 2025

Latin America's largest e-commerce and fintech company. I worked on features that every buyer touches, on a platform with 220M+ users.

  • Subscription program

    Meli+

    Mercado Libre's subscription: free shipping, discounts and streaming in one monthly plan. I helped build it from the start. It launched in Mexico in 2023, then Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

    • Subscriptions
    • React
    • Go
    • Server-Driven UI
  • Checkout

    Better address input

    Reworked how buyers type and validate their address. Fewer typos and missing details meant 6% fewer bad addresses, and fewer packages that never arrive.

    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Micro frontends
    • Validation
  • Tu día de entregas

    Delivery Day

    Buyers pick one day of the week and their orders arrive together on that day. One predictable delivery for the buyer, fewer trips for the courier.

    • Shipping
    • Go
    • React

What I work on

Four things I'm good at, and how.

01

AI agents

Getting an LLM to do something once is easy. Getting it to do the right thing every day, on real data, is mostly engineering. I build the harness around the model: well-scoped tools and MCP servers, retrieval when it needs context it doesn't have, evals that catch regressions before users do, and guardrails for when it's wrong anyway.

  • Tool calling
  • MCP
  • RAG
  • LLM evals
  • Prompt engineering
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor

02

Backend and distributed systems

Go services on GCP and AWS, each with one clear job, talking through queues where it makes sense. I've built services that absorb traffic spikes of 100x normal load, split a tangled legacy service into one with distinct error types and targeted retries (70% fewer errors), and made search-heavy pages up to 5x faster by reworking data structures and OpenSearch queries.

  • Go
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenSearch
  • SQS / SNS
  • Docker
  • GCP
  • AWS

03

Frontend at scale

React and TypeScript for a lot of people: micro frontends and Server-Driven UI on a platform with 220M+ users, and a Chrome extension that has to live inside other companies' web pages without breaking them. At that scale small details count.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Micro frontends
  • Server-Driven UI
  • Chrome extensions
  • Jest
  • Cypress

04

Reliability and tooling

I like knowing something broke before anyone files a ticket. Better monitoring, alerting and infrastructure helped cut downtime by about 90% on one platform. Parallelizing a test pipeline took CI from about five minutes to under one, which changes how often people are willing to ship.

  • Datadog
  • PagerDuty
  • New Relic
  • Kibana
  • WebdriverIO
  • CI/CD

Experience

8+ years, four teams.

Based in Buenos Aires, working remotely with US teams. Spanish is my first language and I work in English every day. I'm currently studying Computer Science.

The long version is on LinkedIn.

  1. – Present

    FORM (GoSpotCheck)

    Senior Software Engineer

  2. –

    Grux

    Staff Engineer

  3. –

    Mercado Libre

    Senior Software Engineer

  4. –

    Kovix

    Fullstack Developer