John Celis is a Software Engineering Lead with 11 years of hands-on experience across the JavaScript ecosystem, leading backend and full-stack initiatives from Montería, Colombia. He excels in Node.js and TypeScript-driven microservices, GraphQL and REST APIs, Dockerized deployments, and AWS operations, with a track record integrating real-time systems and communications via Socket.io and Twilio. As an engineering leader he balances delivery, client alignment, and team communication—having progressed from sole developer roles to leading cross-functional teams and estimating product work. He’s organized local community efforts (MonteriaJS) and brings a pragmatic, product-minded approach informed by Scrum and clean-code practices. Notably, he has repeatedly modernized legacy stacks—migrating frontends to Nuxt/React and refactoring APIs—demonstrating both maintenance discipline and feature-driven innovation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Desarrollador Web, Desarrollador Web at Platzi
Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería de sistemas, Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería de sistemas at Universidad de Córdoba (CO)
Contributions:8 reviews, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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