Personal details

Antonio V. - Remote back-end developer

Antonio V.

Based in: 🇨🇴 Colombia
Timezone: Bogota (UTC-5)

Summary

I am a highly experienced Software Engineer and leader with over 6 years of experience in designing, managing, and building highly scalable distributed systems for world-class companies. My expertise is mainly in backend and web APIs, but my recent positions have allowed me to gain experience in a wide range of technologies, languages, and stacks, making me a versatile engineer and leader.

Throughout my career, I have successfully led and managed engineering teams of various sizes, mentored junior engineers, and collaborated with key stakeholders to deliver big wins for my teams that have had a direct impact on the overall company. I have a proven track record of building systems that handle millions of requests daily, serving customers globally, and have experience in Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, AWS-based infrastructure and systems with several microservices with hundreds of releases to production per day.

I am a strategic thinker, able to identify and leverage new technologies and methodologies to improve the efficiency and performance of my team

Work Experience

Software Engineer
Twilio | Apr 2021 - Present
Python
Java
Scala
Shell
Akka
React
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Microservices
  • Developed a wide set of highly scalable and distributed APIs in a microservices architecture with the following technologies: Java, Scala, Python, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes.
  • Full ownership of the different services in the Channels team architecture.
  • Responsible for introducing new features and maintenance of the existing functionality of the microservices.
  • Collaborated with technical direction and system architecture expertise.
  • Responsible for the scaling and monitoring of the different services depending of the traffic rate.
  • Part of an operational support rotation to comply with SLA and SLO.
  • Responsible for writing unit tests, E2E test, cluster tests and all different tools to ensure the software written is being delivered with a high quality and efficiency to satisfy customer needs.
Software Engineer
Intertec International | Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Java
MySQL
Groovy
Spring Boot
Velocity
Micronaut
Hibernate ORM
  • Developed applications to support daily operations of different marketplaces and ecommerce sites. Using Spring Boot, Micronaut, Java 8 and 11, Groovy, MySQL and other technologies.
  • Contributed with the technical direction and system architecture expertise.
  • Used expertise in computer science, algorithms and data structure to enhance development.
  • Implemented unit and integration testing protocols to consistently deliver high quality, functional features with minimal defects.

Education

Universidad Dr Jose Gregorio Hernandez
Bachelor's degree・Systems Engineering
Sep 2009 - Apr 2013