Andrey Cañon
Lead Backend Engineer at eduNEXT
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolAndrey Cañon is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Bogotá with eight years building resilient back-end systems for the e-learning sector, currently leading backend work at eduNEXT. He combines deep Python and backend web development expertise with practical experience in EDX and unit testing, having progressed from developer to lead within the same organization. His mechatronics and robotics engineering background gives him a systems-oriented approach to software design and automation that surfaces in reliable, testable architectures. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he has also worked in consulting at Endava, bringing cross-team collaboration and production-hardening experience to education technology platforms.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Github Skills (67)
lms10
mobile-application10
edx10
django9
swift9
dashboard9
learning-management-system9
ios9
accessibility9
transform9
openedx9
analytics9
paypal8
react-components8
catalog8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eduNEXT/eox-tenant
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
Plugin for managing multiple tenants (organizations) within a single Open edX instance.
Contributions:9 releases, 28 reviews, 101 commits in 4 years 1 month
openedx
nelc/event-routing-backends
Sep 2022 - Nov 2025
Consume edx tracking events and transform/transmit them to other LRSs.
Contributions:10 reviews, 37 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 years 2 months
eventstransformedxtrackingconsume
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