Summary
Alexander Nieto is a Staff Backend Engineer with 16 years of experience designing and shipping production-grade distributed systems, microservices, and CI/CD tooling across voice AI and cloud platforms. He has driven architecture and tooling work at Deliverect and Cerence after a long tenure at Nuance, building cross-platform ASR/NLU engines, package managers, and multi-repo build/test systems in C/C++, Python and Java. A competitive programmer and former IOI coach, he brings strong algorithms and problem-solving instincts to performance-critical backend problems and complex integration pipelines. Comfortable across languages and build ecosystems, he pairs hands-on implementation with pragmatic automation to speed deployments and improve reliability. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he’s a compulsive programmer who balances deep technical craft with offbeat interests in anime, manga and salsa music.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Spanish, English, Japanese, French