Diego Niquefa
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Niquefa is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with a decade of experience building backend systems and distributed services. He progressed through multiple roles at Microsoft, including Azure Compute work as an intern and now a senior engineer, and has strong hands-on experience designing Node.js microservices, PostgreSQL and MongoDB schemas, and integration patterns using RabbitMQ and Redis. Diego also has full-stack and serverless experience—shipping a Flutter mobile app with AWS Lambda backends in Python—and a background in competitive programming that informs his focus on efficient, reliable implementations. He blends startup agility from companies like Valiu and Littio with enterprise-scale engineering practices at Microsoft, making him comfortable across rapid iteration and production stability. A habit of moving between data stores and messaging layers suggests a knack for pragmatic architecture choices under real-world constraints.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Github Skills (21)
camera7
scanning6
plugin6
ado5
face-detection5
react-native4
api4
http-server4
data-structures4
react4
wolfram-language3
ios3
browser3
nextjs2
typescript2
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
niquefaDiego/problem-solving
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Tools for efficient competitive programming
Contributions:2 reviews, 53 commits, 17 PRs in 6 months
competitivedata-structurescompetitive-programming
niquefaDiego/contest-environment
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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