Alejandro Barrientos
Software Project Leader Cloud & Platform
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Barrientos is a seasoned software project leader with 10 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms and secure traffic infrastructure for high-scale services. Currently leading Cloud & Platform efforts at Mercado Libre, he architects and optimizes service-to-service communication and authorization using Istio, Envoy, Kubernetes, AWS and Go. He previously led crypto backend teams at Mercado Pago, shaping wallet, exchange and payment APIs, and has broad experience across Java, Node.js, Elixir and front-end Angular work from enterprise banking to logistics. Based in Medellín, he blends hands-on engineering with system design and operational ownership, with a particular interest in cryptography, application security and ML-informed tooling. One less obvious strength is his academic and teaching background, which helps him translate complex architectures into clear, coachable practices for engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería en sistemas y computación Ciencias de la computación, Ingeniería en sistemas y computación Ciencias de la computación at Universidad de Caldas
Github Skills (12)
decouple10
secrets-manager8
scaffolding8
gradle8
java7
secrets7
architecture7
maven7
gradle-plugin7
open-source4
microservices1
reactive1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alejobtc/secrets-manager
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
This library will help you to decouple your application of your secrets provider
Contributions:5 releases, 78 commits, 2 PRs in 21 days
secrets-managersecretsdecoupleprovider
alejobtc/github-actions-for-ci
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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