Jhon Puentes
Head Of Engineering & Digital Transformation
Bogotá D.C. Metropolitan Area Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolJhon Puentes is a technology and engineering leader with 13 years of experience, currently Head of Engineering & Digital Transformation at Farmatodo, where he drives cloud-native modernization, DevSecOps, FinOps, and AI-enabled productivity across retail and e-commerce platforms. He pairs hands-on experience in backend systems, ETL, and high-concurrency APIs with strategic leadership—scaling teams, mentoring technical leaders, and embedding continuous improvement into delivery workflows. His track record includes migrating legacy systems to auto-scalable microservices, establishing platform automation, and reducing cloud costs while improving reliability. An Open Source Python/NLP author and recent MSc in Software Engineering, he blends academic rigor with practical system design and a strong ethical stance on building trustworthy, evolvable software. Not obvious from titles: he focuses heavily on small, continuous optimizations that compound into major flow and waste reductions across organizations.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Degree in Computer Software Technology Computer Software Technology, Associate Degree in Computer Software Technology Computer Software Technology at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasBachelor of Science (BSc) in Systems Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Systems Engineering Computer Software Engineering at Fundación Universitaria Konrad LorenzUniversidad de los Andes
Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
text-mining10
scientific-computing9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
python8
named-entity-recognition4
local-files3
expressjs2
http-server2
http1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jfreddypuentes/spanlp
Nov 2020 - May 2021
spanlp: nlp applied for spanish vulgarity. A fast, robust Python library to check for profanity or offensive language in Spanish strings. It contains all the rude words of Spanish-speaking countries.
Contributions:4 releases, 77 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
natural-language-processingpythonscience-researchscientific-computingnlp
jfreddypuentes/jfreddypuentes
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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