Camilo Montoya
CEO - Founder - AI Engineer at Macmillan Learning
Medellín Metropolitan Area Colombia
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Top SchoolCamilo Montoya is a product-minded founder and AI engineer with over a decade building full-stack, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams from Medellín, Colombia. He founded Blysh to transform multimedia into structured, searchable knowledge using a microservices stack (Node.js/TypeScript, React, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes) and integrated cutting-edge models like Whisper and Grok for transcription and analysis, plus an MLX Audio text-to-speech pipeline for podcast/audiobook production. His background spans senior roles at Macmillan and Techstars, hands-on DevOps and Terraform/Kubernetes work, and teaching full-stack JavaScript on Udemy—combining deep implementation experience with developer evangelism. An active open-source contributor, he localized the popular cross-platform learning app Git-it into Colombian Spanish, reflecting his focus on accessibility and education. Trained both in computer science and law, he blends technical rigor with a practical, product-first approach to building secure, scalable learning platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws - LLB legal studies, Bachelor of Laws - LLB legal studies at Universidad EAFITComputer science B.S. Computer science, Computer science B.S. Computer science at Fundación Universitaria San Martín
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Github Skills (5)
html10
localization10
spanish10
translation10
django-models6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jlord/git-it-electron
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
:computer: :mortar_board: Git-it is a (Mac, Win, Linux) Desktop App for Learning Git and GitHub
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Camilo primarily contributed to the localization of the "Git-it" application by adding and translating content into Spanish (Colombia). Their commits involved modifications to various files, including HTML pages, partials, and challenge descriptions, to provide Spanish language support for the application's user interface and educational content. These contributions focused on adapting the application for Spanish-speaking users.
windowselectronlinuxmaclinux-desktop
camilomontoyau/bootcamp-hablemos-de-programacion
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 639 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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