Daniel Mendoza
Senior Backend Engineer at Intuition Machines
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolDaniel Mendoza is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Bogotá with 10 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native backend systems across media, fintech, healthtech, and insurance. He specializes in Golang, Python, and Rust, and has a track record modernizing monoliths, improving observability, and delivering high-throughput APIs and event-driven architectures. His background includes migrating legacy Java services to Go, deploying microservices on Kubernetes, and hands-on work with CI/CD and AWS. Daniel thrives at the intersection of systems engineering and product delivery, often leading product handovers across distributed teams to ensure reliability and performance. Colleagues describe him as curious, proactive, and detail-oriented, with a practical bent for clean and reactive architectures. He brings uncommon depth in both language diversity and operational ownership, from early Django projects to recent Rust backend work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineer, Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineer at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
Github Skills (18)
sendgrid5
blocking4
coverage4
transactional-emails4
api3
twilio3
golang3
wait1
asynchronous-tasks1
asynchronous1
caching1
worker-pool1
async1
task-queue1
backend1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
daltemen/shopje
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
quick shop with python and javascript
Contributions:5 releases, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
pythonquick-shopdjangojavascriptshop
daltemen/rocket-rust-example
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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