Nahuel Nucera is the Founder of MiniStack, a free and open-source local AWS emulator built as a drop-in replacement for LocalStack, serving developers and DevOps engineers worldwide.

Nahuel studied at Atlantic Technological University in Ireland and built his career as a QA and ML engineer, with roles at companies including G42, Deutsche Bank, and Creditsafe.

When LocalStack moved its core services behind a paid plan, Nahuel built MiniStack from scratch in weeks, shipping a fully MIT-licensed alternative with no account, no API key, and no telemetry required.

MiniStack is a Python ASGI server emulating 33 AWS services on a single port, uniquely running real Postgres, Redis, and Docker containers rather than in-memory fakes, with a 150MB image footprint versus LocalStack's 1GB.

MiniStack ships with over 700 passing integration tests, supports tools like boto3, Terraform, and CDK without code changes, and has rapidly gained traction across the global developer community as the go-to free LocalStack alternative.