Andrés Peña
Risk Based Authentication Leader
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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Top SchoolAndrés Peña is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, secure systems across startups and large enterprises, currently driving platform initiatives at Bancolombia. He specializes in Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and developer tooling, and has contributed notable improvements to the popular Backstage open-source project—adding Kubernetes plugin features, mTLS x509 support, and multi-cluster custom resource configuration. With a master's in Information Security and ongoing postgraduate AI/ML studies at UT Austin, he blends security-minded engineering with modern devtools and automation (Concourse, Carvel, Sonarqube). Comfortable in polyglot stacks (Node.js, Java, Elixir, Python) and cross-cultural environments, he brings pragmatic experience integrating CIAM, reactive systems, and cloud services to deliver scalable, testable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería en Computación, Systems Engineering, Ingeniería en Computación, Systems Engineering at Universidad Nacional de CórdobaSENA: Servicio Nacional de AprendizajeUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Postgraduate Program in Artificial Intelligent and Machine Learning: Business Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Postgraduate Program in Artificial Intelligent and Machine Learning: Business Applications, Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinIngeniero de Sistemas y Computación, Systems Engineering, Ingeniero de Sistemas y Computación, Systems Engineering at Universidad de Caldas
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
authentication10
user-authentication10
backstage10
kubernetes-pods10
typescript9
typescript-types9
nodejs9
typescripts9
apidoc8
api8
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
cve6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 4 commits, 13 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Andrés contributed to the Kubernetes backend plugin, enhancing its functionality and improving its testing. They implemented features to configure Custom Resources per cluster within the Kubernetes backend, enabling more flexible resource management. Further contributions included the addition of new tests and the removal of duplicate code in the `KubernetesFanOutHandler`, enhancing the robustness of the plugin. Furthermore, they modified code in `KubernetesProxy` to provide support of mTLS x509 client certificate and handle authentication strategies.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
andmagom/backstage
Jul 2022 - Feb 2024
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:135 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 7 months
portalsopenui5sap-hanabackbonejsopen-platform
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