Alex Montoya is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems and leading migrations for high-traffic enterprise applications from Costa Rica. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Azure, Terraform, Kafka, and React with a strong DevOps mindset—designing microservices, CI/CD, observability, and automated remediation to boost reliability and performance. Alex has moved from frontline support and cloud support roles into engineering leadership, giving him a practical edge in incident analysis, SLA management, and performance-driven refactoring. He mentors teams, runs architectural reviews, and consistently turns complex legacy systems into scalable, resilient platforms. A fast learner and clear communicator, he pairs conflict-resolution skills with an open-minded engineering philosophy inspired by his favorite quote about parachutes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development Computer Software Engineering, Software Development Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Cenfotec
incomplete Electrical and Electronics Engineering, incomplete Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
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