Andres Duque Hincapie
Senior Software Engineer at Liftit-
Summary
I'm very passionate about technology, help people to grow and build amazing software.
I love the communities, so I'm the Chief of Elixir Colombia and React.js Colombia meetups. Also coorganizer of PyCon Colombia event, Python Medellín, and PyLadies groups.
I have more than five years developing software in Languages like Python, Elixir and Go.
Currently, I'm Team lead and Senior Software Engineer at Liftit helping to grow the company using
my technical and soft skills.
I have experience in Backend, Frontend, Databases, Micro-services, Clean Architecture, Amazon
Web Services, Concurrence, Scalability, TDD, and Unit Test.
My main skills are using Python, Django, Django Channels, Elixir, Phoenix Framework, Real-time
applications, Micro-services, REST APIs, Linux Servers, and PostgreSQL.
Experience
Senior Software Engineering at Liftit
July 2018 - Present
I'm team lead and Senior Developer. My main job is to help grow the company using my technical
and soft skills.
I use Elixir, Go, Python and Javascript to build scalable and distributed applications handling
performance and scalability challenges, implement the best code practices, Clean Architecture and
TDD.
I implement some technologies and tools like Phoenix Framework, Django, Docker, RabbitMQ,
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud.
Also, I help to recruit software engineers (Be the Chief of some technical communities in Colombia
is very useful for this)
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Senior Developer at Datagran
January 2018 - July 2018 (7 months)
I worked in platform integrations with Google Ads, connecting the functionalities with Machine
Learning algorithms that optimize and automate the most important process in the company.
I used some technologies like Python, Flask, Luigi, MongoDB, Google Cloud.
Also, I helped to improve the development process using SCRUM and implementing good practices
of architecture, scalability, TDD and best code practices.
Advisory Software Engineer at 2Heart | Agencia de Marketing Digital
March 2016 - July 2018 (2 years 5 months)
I helped to develop software applications, deploy and implementing a good architecture thinking
on the scalability and the availability of high traffic applications in Amazon Web Services. Also, I
helped with Database structures and best code practices to help to implement a clean architecture.
I used some technologies like Python, Django, REST APIs, Javascript, Handlebars, TDD,
PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services.
Software Consultant
October 2017 - January 2018 (4 months)
Consulting and advising structuring Django application with Rest API and Angular SPA for
scalability, multi deployment, Unit Testing, Scrum methodology, Database architecture, best
practices, and performance.
Software Engineer at LendingFront
May 2016 - August 2017 (1 year 4 months)
I worked as Full-stack Engineer, helping to build the platform implement the best practices of
Python, micro-services, clean architecture, TDD, Database design.
I used microservices to communicate all components using rest APIs and Postgres Foreign data
wrappers to allow use data from different remote data stores and improve the performance getting
multiple information from different sources.
I used Scrum methodology and some technologies like Python, Flask, Flask-RestFul, TDD,
PostgreSQL, Foreign Data Wrappers, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Javascript, Amazon Web Services.
Platform Developer at ZipZap, Inc.
January 2016 - April 2016 (4 months)
I worked as Back-end developer using Python to build Rest APIs and handle the platform
administration site.
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Technologies used:
Python, Flask, SQLalchemy
Rest APIs
PostgreSQL
Alembic
Git
Javascript, jQuery
Html, Css
Full Stack Developer
July 2015 - April 2016 (10 months)
I worked as a Full-stack developer, building the applications and deploying on Amazon Web
Services using the Load Balancer, EC2 and RDS technologies to handle the scalability and
stability.
Technologies used:
Python
Django Framework
PostgreSQL
Linux Server Administrator
Amazon Web Services. (EC2, RDS)
Nginx, Gunicorn, Supervisor
Design and Analysis Software and Database
HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery, Bootstrap
Git, BitBucket, GitLab
Education
SENA
Software Development, Computer Software Engineering, 2014 - 2016
Activities and Societies: Python & Django Course.
Honors and Awards
Second place nationwide. Category SenaSoft 2014 Competition algorithms.
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Andres Duque Hincapie
Senior Software Engineer at Liftit-
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