At AgilityFeat, we have built nearshore software teams in Latin America since 2010. That work depends on healthy local engineering communities, so we contribute to their growth wherever we can.
On Saturday, November 7, I opened the technical program at Python El Salvador’s Meetup de Reactivación in San Salvador, the group’s first event after a long pause. My talk covered eBPF and TURN servers in Python, about making Python fast enough to relay video calls at scale. Earlier this year, I gave the same talk at two international conferences on real-time communications on behalf of our subsidiary, WebRTC.ventures.
Contributing to the growth of our tech communities
We contribute to tech communities across Latin America in many ways. A few examples:
- Sharing our work. We try to present our work in our home regions, such as this talk in San Salvador. At the meetup, I took a highly technical talk on Linux kernel networking that I presented at ClueCon and IIT RTC Conference 2026 to a room of beginners and experienced engineers, and adjusted the depth so both could follow it.
- Showing up at regional tech events. Our team attended Colombia Tech Week in Bogotá this August. We also sponsor AI Tinkerers events in Latin America and abroad. I launched the San Salvador chapter, and AgilityFeats LATAM Operations Manager, Rafael Amberths, launched the Panama chapter.
- Working with universities. In Panama, we work with the Faculty of Computer Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá. We give talks for students, take part in university events and job fairs, and run an internship program where interns work on real tasks in the workflows of our global projects, with mentoring from experienced engineers. We’ve hired more than one of these interns after graduation! I also regularly return to my alma mater, Universidad de El Salvador, to give talks, including one just a few weeks ago about building a career in modern technology.
The Rest of the Python Program
The other three talks covered web APIs, serverless functions, and the language’s own concurrency work.
- Introduction to FastAPI, by Emilio Serrano (Python Developer). FastAPI is a Python web framework for building HTTP APIs using type hints, and the talk was an introduction to it for the many attendees building web services in Python.
- Introduction to AWS Lambda with Python, by Victor Ascencio (Core PS Engineer). AWS Lambda runs your code in response to events without you managing servers, and Python is one of its supported runtimes. Victor’s talk was an introduction to using Python on that model.
- Python 3.15: Concurrency and Parallelism, by Carlos Mario Ayala Amaya (Head of Digital Transformation at Ferrollaves). Concurrency (making progress on several tasks at once) and parallelism (running them simultaneously on multiple cores) are two of the most discussed topics in Python, and this talk covered them in the context of the 3.15 release.
Thanks to the event organizer
Thank you to Josue Gomez, who organized the group’s relaunch, and to the Python El Salvador volunteers for the invitation. Thank you to Emilio, Victor, and Carlos for preparing talks, and to the 20 people who came. I am looking forward to the next meetup.
If you are a current or aspiring LATAM software engineer, connect with me on LinkedIn! I’d love to hear what you are building.
