Germán Potes
Software Technical Leader at Mercado Libre
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolGermán Potes is a software technical leader with 11 years of professional experience building and improving web and microservice architectures across Latin America, currently leading engineering efforts at Mercado Libre from Medellín. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Node, Java, PHP and Go, and a strong focus on test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and reducing tech debt through unit, integration, component, visual, API and E2E testing. Having served as a tech coach at international shops like PSL and Perficient, he blends individual contributor chops with mentorship and practical architecture guidance. His background includes pricing systems, hospital information platforms and cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, Helm, Elasticsearch), reflecting a pragmatic approach to solving domain-specific problems at scale. Less obvious: he pairs legacy modernization experience with daily operational skills—server administration and devops automation—making him adept at both shipping features and stabilizing complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
INGENIERO DE SISTEMAS, Computer Software Engineering, INGENIERO DE SISTEMAS, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad del Valle (CO)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (34)
selenium-webdriver9
hateoas8
spring8
mongodb8
spring-boot8
java8
restful6
selenium6
reporter5
webdriver5
testing4
espn4
renovate4
api3
junit3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
germandavid85/example-java-hateoas-pet-app
Feb 2015 - Oct 2019
Example pet tool, implemented in java, spring, mongo, hateoas
Contributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years 8 months
spring-bootjava-springmongospringhateoas
germandavid85/springboot-restful-mongodb
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
spring boot restful and mongodb examples
Contributions:32 commits, 37 PRs, 40 pushes in 4 years 11 months
spring-bootspring-boot-restfulrestfulspringjava
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