About

I'm a Senior Software Engineer from Pasto, Colombia. I specialize in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native backend development. I build things that scale, stay reliable under pressure, and ship on time.

Now

  • Senior Backend Engineer at Globant for Disney — building Go microservices and event-driven pipelines at scale
  • Founder of Optima — a B2B SaaS platform I designed, built, and maintain end-to-end
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect · Google AI Professional · MongoDB SI Architect

Timeline

2026
  1. Designed and built end-to-end a SaaS platform that automates SECOP II public procurement monitoring in Colombia, delivering bi-hourly email alerts to paying business clients.

  2. Certified by Amazon Web Services. Also holds Google AI Professional, MongoDB SI Architect, and Azure Fundamentals certifications.

2024 – now
  1. Redesigning Go microservices processing 30K+ daily state updates. Building event-driven pipelines with Kinesis, SQS, EventBridge, and MongoDB. Driving a 2× throughput improvement while reducing infrastructure cost.

2023
  1. Built and operated high-throughput event-driven Go backends processing tens of thousands of events daily using Pub/Sub, ensuring fault tolerance and horizontal scalability.

  2. CodeBackend Engineer at Pragma

    Developed scalable APIs and microservices. Contributed to cloud cost optimization and led knowledge-transfer sessions with junior engineers.

2021 – 2022
  1. CodeBackend Developer at Soporte Lógico

    Built RESTful services in Go and integrated third-party APIs. Introduced observability tooling (Datadog) and contributed to DevOps workflows.

2017 – 2022
  1. Full-tuition scholarship (highest GPA in cohort). Published two apps on Google Play during undergraduate studies.

Tech Stack

Primary language: Go. Cloud: AWS (Kinesis, SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, ECS). Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis. Observability: Datadog, Grafana. Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes. Secondary: Java (Spring Boot), Dart/Flutter, TypeScript.

Reach me

LinkedIn ·GitHub ·juanceron256@gmail.com