J Torres
Technical Lead at Forest
Concepcion, Biobio Region, Chile
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Top SchoolJ Torres is a backend-focused Technical Lead with 10 years of experience designing and operating scalable systems on GCP, currently leading backend architecture and execution at Forest. He builds pragmatic, high-performance services using FastAPI, Go microservices, PostgreSQL, and Redis, and has a track record of reducing latency and improving throughput in production. He owns architectural trade-offs that balance performance, cost, and maintainability, and has improved observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry to speed incident response. Past roles at Uber/Cornershop involved ingesting and automating pipelines for over a million products, integrating external APIs, and operating critical services under on-call pressure. A former founder and long-time full‑stack engineer, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and hands-on delivery to distributed teams. Based in Concepción, Chile, he combines deep systems-performance focus with practical DevOps experience to drive measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics technician, Técnico en Electronica de Instrumentación, Electronics technician, Técnico en Electronica de Instrumentación at CEAT - CENTRO EDUCACIONAL DE ALTA TECNOLOGÍABachelor degree in Computer Sciences, Ingeniero Civil en Informática, Bachelor degree in Computer Sciences, Ingeniero Civil en Informática at Universidad del Bío Bío
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
excel8
xls7
xlsx7
spreadsheet7
php-library7
php7
libreoffice7
ods6
openoffice5
phpexcel4
onlyoffice3
gnumeric1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sirlucast/objectDetection-RPI-APM
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:261 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
sirlucas/NetGraph
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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