Juan Benitez
Senior Software Engineer at EPAM Systems
Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
Summary
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SeniorJuan Benitez is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cartagena, Colombia, with nine years of professional experience and over six years focused on Python and Django backend development. He has led and mentored small teams, delivered production-grade APIs, and optimized high-traffic endpoints using Django ORM, SQL profiling, and observability tools like Grafana. Comfortable across the deployment stack, he has hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Celery, Elasticsearch, and payment integrations (Mollie, Stripe), and has built data sync services handling millions of records. At companies from startups to EPAM, Juan has driven reusable templates, estimation processes, and close client collaboration to turn requirements into performant, testable features. His open-source work includes a Django REST Framework CRUD project showcasing token auth, permissions, and registration flows—evidence of a pragmatic, security-minded backend engineer. Colleagues would describe him as a performance-first developer who blends technical depth with product-focused delivery.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
api-rest10
django-rest10
user-authentication10
rest-api10
authentication10
django-rest-framework10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
data-serialization8
permission8
serialization8
pagination7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
juanbeniteza/django-rest-framework-crud
Jun 2018 - Apr 2021
Simple CRUD REST API with Python Django Rest Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily contributed to the back-end development of a Django REST Framework CRUD API. Their work involved creating models, implementing views for handling CRUD operations, and setting up serializers for data serialization. They integrated authentication using TokenAuthentication and implemented user permissions to restrict access to specific API endpoints. Furthermore, the user added login/registration functionalities with rest-auth library.
apipythonrest-cruddjango-rest-frameworkdjango
juanbenitezdev/Speech-To-Text
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
Application developed in Python to convert Speech to Text and vice versa
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
pythonspeech-to-textspeech-recognitionversaspeech-synthesis
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