Gerardo Cortés
Senior Software Engineer at Rabobank
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGerardo Cortés is a Senior Software Engineer based in Utrecht with 11 years of experience leading full-stack projects from architecture to production. He specializes in designing APIs and message-streaming systems in cloud environments, with recent roles at Rabobank, Sensys Gatso Group, and bol.com. Known for a passion for readable, "pretty" code, he pairs strong coding standards with practical observability solutions to speed development and ensure reliable production monitoring. He has led cross-functional migrations and integrations—such as centralized email services and ERP migrations—while standardizing logging, monitoring, and load testing. Gerardo also invests in continuous learning, holding multiple Udacity nanodegrees in blockchain, full-stack, and algorithms alongside a CS background from Universidad de Costa Rica. Colleagues lean on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance developer velocity with long-term operability.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Blockchain Developer, Nanodegree Blockchain Developer at UdacityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Colegio Técnico Don BoscoComputer Science, Computer Science at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (2)
jekyll7
static-site7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cortes-gerardo/categorizer
May 2020 - Aug 2023
This is a Spring Boot demo project.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
spring-bootdemo-projectspring-boot-demospringjava
gerardo-cortes/cortes-gerardo.github.io
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
GitHub Pages: Resume / Portfolio / Blog
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 3 months
resume-portfolioportfolio-blogjekyllstatic-site
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