Diego Alarcon
Freelance Software Engineer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Alarcon is a versatile freelance software engineer based in Montreal with 11 years of professional experience and four years focused on building scalable full‑stack web applications and APIs. He moves fluidly between frontend and backend work, shipping production systems with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node/NestJS, FastAPI/Django, and PHP, and has hands‑on experience deploying serverless features on AWS. At Skillshare he designed content curation and rewards systems, integrated ML models for personalized homepages, and led an image-recognition feature end-to-end from data pipeline and model training to Elasticsearch-backed search. Currently he’s building workflow automation tools that integrate multiple messaging and productivity platforms (WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Google Docs/Sheets), showing a practical bent for orchestrating heterogeneous services. His background in industrial engineering and early experience running a 3D-printing business give him a pragmatic, product-minded approach to solving engineering and client-facing problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering at Politécnico Colombiano 'Jaime Isaza Cadavid'Software Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science at Holberton SchoolElectronics, Electronics at Tecnológico de Colombia
Github Skills (15)
mvvm-architecture10
android-development9
viewmodel9
mvvm9
jetpack-compose9
kotlin9
coroutines9
architecture8
jetpack8
android8
kotlin-android8
network1
dart1
networking1
flutter1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
diee/JewelProject
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:20 PRs, 16 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 1 month
sasscssjavascriptcss3scss
diee/quejaconjunta
Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:20 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
reactsitiouniversidadtypescriptsitio-web
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