Python Developer

Senior Software Engineer (Python · Django · Fast Api · Aws)

Senior Backend Engineer with 9 years of experience working with Python, Rust, and JavaScript, using frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, Airflow, Actix, and Tokio on AWS and GCP. Specialized in RESTful APIs, data streaming, event-driven systems, scalable backend infrastructure, and integrating LLM features into real products. Experience at Kendall AI, Globant, and Sodimac, modernizing workflows and building internal tools for media clients, improving backend performance, cloud architecture, and real-time ingestion pipelines.



Experience: 9 years

Yearly salary: $100,000

Hourly rate: $50

Nationality: 🇨🇴 Colombia

Residency: 🇨🇴 Colombia


Experience

Senior Backend Engineer
Globant
2020 - 2024
• Modernized legacy systems into microservices with hardened CI/CD for an internal recruiting platform, speeding delivery and reducing maintenance overhead, using Django, Python, FastAPI, Docker and Kubernetes. • Migrated critical banking workflows to event-driven architectures for a Mexican fintech client (Yastas), improving reliability and reducing failures and reprocessing, using GCP Pub/Sub, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Docker. • Prototyped and integrated LLM-powered assistants for a media client (CNN / Warner Bros), enabling new internal search and support capabilities with better latency and integration effort, using OpenAI, AWS, and GCP. • Moved asynchronous workloads from Celery workers to serverless functions in an internal ML-heavy platform, reducing async job cost and shortening queue wait times under peak load, using Python, Django, FastAPI, Serverless Framework, and AWS.
Senior Backend Engineer (Data)
Sodimac S.A.
2020 - 2020
• Migrated ETL processes from Cloudera to GCP, improving reporting reliability across multiple countries, using GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer. • Automated DAG generation for data extraction, simplifying pipeline creation and maintenance, using Airflow/Composer and GCS.
Backend Engineer
HCMFront
2018 - 2019
• Built payroll, training, and electronic signature modules that streamlined HR operations, using Golang, Django, React, and AWS. • Improved HR reporting and stakeholder visibility using custom UIs and backend services.
Backend Engineer (Data)
TrackTec
2018 - 2018
• Migrated analytics tooling to Fargate to improve scalability and stability, using AWS Fargate, Docker, and Metabase. • Implemented real-time data ingestion to support faster insights, using Spark Streaming and Kinesis.
Backend Engineer
HCMFront
2017 - 2018
• Delivered goal-setting, activity logging, and reporting features that improved performance tracking, using Django, React, and AWS. • Automated HR reports and alerts, reducing manual work for the HR team, using Celery, Django, and AWS.
Backend Engineer
Ambit Technology
2016 - 2017
• Built an electronic invoicing system that reduced manual errors and streamlined tax workflows, using Django and DRF. • Developed customer portals and invoice access tools, improving client experience, using Angular, Bootstrap, React, and AWS/DigitalOcean.
Backend Engineer
Uakami Studio
2015 - 2016
• Developed e-commerce sites and internal tools for multiple clients, increasing delivery capacity, using WordPress, Shopify, and Django. • Built fleet tracking and real-estate showcase apps that improved client operations and presentations, using Django, DRF, Unity, and 3D assets.

Skills

aws
gcp
javascript
postgres
python
rust
english
spanish