About

Background, experience and areas of interest.

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BIO

Hi, I’m Diego, also known as DEKA or DK. I’m originally from Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina, and currently based in La Plata, Buenos Aires. I focus on building high-quality web applications where every detail matters, from the stack to the tools to the final experience. I enjoy working across the full stack. In my free time, I climb, either at the gym or, even better, on real rock.

I have a Licentiates' Degree in Computer Science from the National University of La Plata / UNLP - Informática.

Since late 2025, I have been exploring the AI landscape and working on new approaches to product development. I am available to augment your team or take full ownership of a feature or project, delivering from concept to production.

Connecting ideas, shaping products.

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Reach me at diego at geutstudio dot com

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Experience

Co-founder

GEUT

2018 - Present

Boutique software consultancy and a lab for P2P experiments.

  • Co-founded GEUT in 2018 as a boutique software consultancy and P2P lab
  • Launched Sher in 2020: a fan-to-fan live-audio platform with P2P delivery
  • Went through two accelerators: Emprelatam & Latitud
  • Returned to consultancy in 2022, working with Alliants in staff-augmentation model through end of 2025
  • Now exploring AI landscape and open to new collaborations
Full-stack Engineer

Alliants

2022 - 2025

Worked inside an established product team, moving fast across the stack—from developer tooling and bundling to shipping meaningful frontend performance wins.

  • Staff-augmentation
  • Worked across the whole stack from developer tooling to full-stack development and performance optimizations
  • Worked on various performance optimizations. From font loading to ssr clustering
Co-founder & Technical Lead

Sher

2020 - 2022

Fan-to-fan live-audio platform that paired P2P delivery with streaming. Creators got a lightweight "remote studio" right in the browser—no downloads, just start streaming in a few clicks.

  • Built P2P-powered streaming platform with high-quality audio
  • Navigated marketplace chicken-and-egg problem in LatAm
  • Challenged by payment infrastructure limitations (no Stripe-class tooling)
  • Self-funded, learned painful but useful lessons about runway and product-market fit
Full-stack Engineer

Despegar

2015-2018

Worked as Full-stack Engineer on projects including a "components as a service" system that was rendered and consumed by different teams across the company.

  • Built components as a service architecture
  • Cross-team integration and consumption patterns
  • Large-scale full-stack development
Researcher / Developer

LIFIA

2013-2015

Worked at LIFIA research lab.

  • Researcher and developer
  • Worked on a web platform tool for designing interactions (sketching and prototyping)
Assistant Professor

UNLP - Informática

2012-2013

Assistant Professor at alma mater teaching "User Centered Design" and "Mobile Devices' Interfaces".

  • Delivered lectures on User Centered Design
  • Prepared practical exercises for Mobile Devices Interfaces
  • Fantastic teaching experience
Freelance Developer

Freelance

2010-2012

Freelance developer.

  • Developed websites for small businesses and individuals

Areas of Interest

Focus areas built through hands-on work: full-stack engineering, custom JavaScript solutions, distributed systems, P2P products, and agent-driven development with strong tooling.
JSNode.JSDistributed SystemsHarness EngineeringP2PHCIReactVueFullstack