Diego Baquero
Software Engineer L3 at PayJoy
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolDiego Baquero is a pragmatic software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and a 19-year coding background, now working as Software Engineer L3 at PayJoy in Bogotá. He specializes in backend systems, distributed services and cloud-native architectures, with hands-on experience across Node.js, Docker, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL and AWS. Diego helped build early distributed infrastructure at Protocol Labs for Filecoin Saturn (a decentralized CDN) and has driven migrations and architecture initiatives at fast-moving companies like Mothership and Pager. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core functionality in the well-known WebTorrent project and refactored its CLI to modern ESM, demonstrating attention to correctness and maintainability. He pairs academic rigor (MS in Software Engineering) with practical product delivery, frequently mentoring and teaching in university and bootcamp settings. Colleagues describe him as a dependable engineer who balances deep systems thinking with pragmatic bug fixes that improve stability in production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los Andes
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
webtorrent10
debug10
javascript10
torrent10
esmodules10
nodejs10
bittorrent10
cli10
server-side10
websocket9
performance-optimization9
streaming9
gnupg9
npm8
webrtc8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
webtorrent/webtorrent-cli
Apr 2016 - Mar 2022
WebTorrent, the streaming torrent client. For the command line.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 43 reviews, 42 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Diego contributed to the WebTorrent CLI project by modifying the command-line interface code, including updating options and player integrations. They made significant changes by switching the project to ESM modules, which involved refactoring the import statements and build process. The user also addressed bug fixes related to dynamic imports of external libraries, enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the project.
p2pbittorrentjavascriptstreamingwebrtc
webtorrent/webtorrent
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 185 reviews, 227 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the `webtorrent/webtorrent` repository by fixing bugs and improving the core functionality of the torrent client. The contributions include correcting issues related to time remaining calculations, initializing data structures in the constructor, and optimizing the handling of web seed requests. These changes involved modifications to the `lib/torrent.js` file, focusing on ensuring the accurate functioning and stability of the torrent streaming service.
browserp2pbittorrentjavascriptstreaming
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