Summary
Carlos Balbuena is a senior software engineer and educator from Peru with 10 years of experience building desktop, web, and mobile applications across C# and Java ecosystems and currently blending industry practice with academia as a Software Architecture and Software Engineering instructor at UTEC. He has held senior engineering roles at Microsoft, Rappi, Scotiabank and SAP/Ariba, leading technical teams and delivering cloud marketplace, billing and enterprise solutions. Comfortable across the full stack, Carlos pairs hands-on implementation with production troubleshooting and has a track record of coordinating distributed teams to keep critical systems running. He complements his engineering craft with formal training in software architecture, management and a master’s focus in AI, and actively engages in open source via his GitHub. An understated strength is his long history of translating operational issues into teachable lessons—bringing real-world incident experience into the classroom and team mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Java, Advanced Java at ISIL
IT Project Management, IT Project Management at Universidad ESAN
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at UNIR - La Universidad en Internet
Executive Coaching, Executive Coaching at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Diploma in Management, Diploma in Management at CENTRUM
Software Architecture: Principles and Practices, Software Architecture: Principles and Practices at Carnegie Mellon University
English Advanced Conversation, English Advanced Conversation at Idiomas Catolica
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French