Edwar Baron is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for high-scale education platform Platzi, supporting over 6 million users. He progressed from backend developer to cloud architect and now leads engineering efforts that blend backend systems, DevOps practices, and platform reliability. Comfortable across Python backend work and production cloud tooling, he has contributed to open-source projects such as xhtml2pdf, helping modernize the library for Python 3 and Django compatibility. Based in Ibagué, Colombia, he brings hands-on implementation experience alongside architecture leadership, often bridging day-to-day engineering and long-term platform strategy. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he focuses on making infrastructure both scalable and maintainable while mentoring teams through operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ing informatica, Ing informatica at Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira
A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:23 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Edwar primarily contributed to supporting Python 3 compatibility within the xhtml2pdf library. Their work involved modifying several modules, including `css.py`, `cssParser.py`, `xhtml2pdf_reportlab.py`, `reportlab_paragraph.py`, `cssDOMElementInterface.py`, and `parser.py`, to ensure proper functionality under Python 3. The commits also included updates to accommodate Python 3's changes in string handling and import statements. Additionally, the user supported Django by adding code related to the demo project.
Contributions:7 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
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