Cristopher Pinzón
Software Engineer at LocalStack
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Top SchoolCristopher Pinzón is a software engineer based in Cancún, Mexico with nine years of professional experience and a strong focus on back-end systems and web interfaces. He has been a core contributor and engineer at LocalStack, improving Kinesis and SNS behavior, fixing S3 memory leaks, and enhancing Java SDK compatibility for a widely used local AWS emulation. Comfortable across the full stack, Cristopher has delivered production APIs, CMS-driven web apps, and data-driven endpoints for clients and academic projects while emphasizing performance and test coverage. His open-source work on Moto added SES template rendering and robust exception handling, reflecting a knack for reliable, testable service implementations. Passionate about systems architecture, he pairs practical hands-on coding with attention to data modeling and deployment across private servers. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who quietly improves developer experience and system robustness.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería, Telemáticas, Ingeniería, Telemáticas at Universidad del Caribe (MX)
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Github Skills (20)
amazon-kinesis10
boto10
pytest10
python10
back-end-development10
amazon-sns10
testing10
kin10
e-mail10
mailer10
aws10
emailjs10
json9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
localstack/localstack
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 reviews, 126 commits, 298 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Cristopher contributed to the Kinesis API by implementing CBOR encoding support, which involved modifications to the `kinesis_listener.py` and `constants.py` files. Further, they fixed issues and provided the functionality for asynchronous publishing of SNS messages. The user also addressed memory leaks in S3 and Moto instance tracking and added fixes for Java SDK compatibility in Kinesis. These contributions centered around improving the functionality, performance, and compatibility of the localstack/localstack project, specifically concerning the Kinesis and SNS services.
serverless-cloudpythonaws-cloudtestingserverless
getmoto/moto
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Cristopher focused on adding and improving functionality for the SES service within the Moto library. Their contributions included implementing new features like template rendering and adding related exception handling, which required modifying existing models and responses. Furthermore, the user corrected exceptions, fixed imports, and resolved issues to improve the reliability of the SES service. Their work also involved adding tests to validate the functionality of the implemented features.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
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