Jorge Vargas
Lead Back-end Engineer at BorderCode Consulting
Sogamoso, Boyacá, Colombia
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Top SchoolJorge Vargas is a Lead Back-end Engineer with 12 years of experience designing cloud-native, serverless systems and building scalable back-end platforms primarily with Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and Prisma. He has driven production-grade architectures for fintech Web3 payments, real-time experiences with WebSockets, and event-driven pipelines using SNS, SQS, Lambda and S3 while leading distributed teams. Google Associate Cloud and AWS Developer certifications underline his operational focus on reliable, automated cloud deployments. His career spans agency and product work—from e-commerce and health-tech scaleups to high-profile media and fintech projects—bringing both hands-on coding and architectural leadership. Based in Sogamoso, Colombia, he combines an electronic engineering background and a bioengineering specialization with a pragmatic approach to shipping resilient systems across global markets. An early freelance and e‑commerce background gives him a practical edge in integrating legacy platforms with modern serverless solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Specialist in Bioengineering Engineering, Post Graduate Specialist in Bioengineering Engineering at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasElectronic Engineer Engineering, Electronic Engineer Engineering at Universidad de los Llanos
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (108)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jorgevrgs/rule-of-thumb
Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
Rule of Thumb is a full-stack example project built with TypeScript and Next.js, backend with MongoDB and GridFS
Contributions:34 PRs, 94 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
next-jsreacttailwindcssrulefull-stack
jorgevrgs/fastify-aws-powertools
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:14 releases, 34 PRs, 91 pushes in 2 years
powertoolsaws-lambda-nodelambda-powertoolsaws-lambdaserverless
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