Alejo López
Senior Software Engineer at Galgo
Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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Top SchoolAlejo López is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cali, Colombia with six years of hands-on experience building high-performance backend systems using C/C++, Python, and Go. He has progressed from self-employed consultant to tech lead and senior engineer roles at startups and Y Combinator-backed Heru, now contributing at Galgo. Alejo blends strong problem-solving and self-learning habits with practical experience in distributed systems, serverless architectures, and real-time data tooling. He’s delivered product-facing integrations for clients like Pandora, BMW, and Colombina and has led backend and infrastructure efforts for web and automation projects. Known for digging into low-level performance and pragmatic engineering trade-offs, he often pairs critical thinking with creative solutions to reduce latency and complexity. Comfortable mentoring teams and shipping end-to-end solutions, he brings startup agility and a track record of adapting across languages and domains.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Software Engineer Computer Software Engineering, Fullstack Software Engineer Computer Software Engineering at Holberton School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (4)
onchange7
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test-suite6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alejolo311/holbertonschool-higher_level_programming
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:328 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
alejolo311/holbertonschool-low_level_programming
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
This repo contains the low level projects of holberton school
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 422 pushes in 6 months
low-levelholberton
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