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Description

Passionate and experienced developer/technical leader and architect, with over 19 years of experience in the development and architecture of technological solutions. Expert in backend and frontend development, software architecture, and cloud-native systems. Noted for adaptability, leadership, and problem-solving skills in diverse technological environments.

Languages

Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Santander
Senior Java / Kafka Streams Developer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
May 2025 - October 2025 (5 months)
Valencia, Spain
Development of Java / Spring Boot microservices under hexagonal and event-driven architecture principles.
Implementation of Kafka Streams on Confluent Platform, using Schema Registry and AVRO.
Design of scalable and resilient data flows for financial event processing.
Participation in CI/CD with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Git.
Application of DevSecOps best practices, including SonarQube, Fortify, and automated testing.
Communication with business users to define requirements and validate deliverables.
Apache Kafka OpenShift Java EE
Mutua Umivale
Architecture Lead - Legacy Application Evolution
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
December 2023 - December 2024 (1 year)
Valencia, Spain
Project: Business Core Architecture Evolution

Objective:

The project focused on evolving from a monolithic and standalone approach to a microservices-based, event-driven architecture deployed on Red Hat OpenShift as the orchestration platform.

Technologies and Tools Used:
Java Quarkus
Vue.js
OpenShift
Tekton
ArgoCD
SonarQube
Nexus
Bitbucket
Oracle
Debezium CDC
Kafka Streams

Key Responsibilities:

Design:
Guidance in architectural decision-making, including tools, project structure, deployments, releases, and microservice development strategies.

Definition of the technical foundation for the new architecture, covering best practices and standards for application development and distribution.

Technical Leadership:
Led the technical team, defined tasks, and established the project roadmap using agile methodologies.

Coordinated the implementation of proof of concepts for each proposed tool and strategy, ensuring coverage of all microservice development phases, from planning to production and version management.

Implementation:
Creation of PoCs for data migration approaches.

Developed the base templates for both Quarkus and Vue projects.

Testing:
Performed load and integration testing of microservices to ensure performance and reliability after deployments.

Deployment:
Managed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.

Supervised version promotion using Jenkins integrated with Jira operational workflows.

DevOps:
Application of GitOps practices with ArgoCD and Tekton for continuous integration and delivery.
Java Quarkus Vue.js OpenShift Tekton Argo CD SonarQube Nexus Bitbucket Oracle Debezium CDC Apache Kafka
Ingeneo SAS
Software Architect
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
November 2019 - December 2024 (5 years and 1 month)
Medellín, Colombia
Project: Migration of Monolithic Desktop Application to Microservices and Microfrontends

Participated in the architecture team that defined the strategy to transform a monolithic desktop application into an ecosystem based on microservices and microfrontends.

Collaborated in the architecture design, ensuring the modularity and scalability of the new services.

Coordinated the adoption of communication patterns (REST, asynchronous messaging) and the definition of service contracts (APIs).

Established a microfrontend framework to unify the user experience and facilitate the integration of multidisciplinary teams.

Key Technologies: Microservices, Microfrontends, Docker, Kubernetes, .NET / Angular, Azure, CI/CD (AzureDevops), Agile Methodologies (Scrum).

Event-driven architecture DevOps Agile method Communication