Summary
Jonathan Barquero is a freelance full-stack software developer with over a decade of professional experience and a 19+-year engineering background focused on Ruby on Rails, Node, React and Flutter. He builds scalable web and mobile applications and IoT solutions, with deep expertise in high-traffic systems, asynchronous processing, and performance optimization. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs cloud and DevOps practices (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) with proven testing and TDD workflows to deliver reliable production systems. Recently he’s applied LLMs and AI agents (Llama, Mistral, GPT) and fine-tuning techniques (SFT, RAG) to productize intelligent features. Based in Costa Rica, he blends long-term consulting at agencies and freelance architecture roles with hands-on implementation, making him effective both as a solo contributor and team lead. An interdisciplinary background that includes human studies informs his pragmatic focus on usable, well-architected software.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Computer Science, Engineer's Degree Computer Science at Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with Software Development Emphasis, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with Software Development Emphasis at ULACIT
Human Studies : History Literature Philosophy Ethics Visual Arts Musicology, Human Studies : History Literature Philosophy Ethics Visual Arts Musicology at Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica
English, Portuguese, Spanish