Juan Esquivel is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building resilient backend systems and leading technical teams across Latin America, now contributing to Mercado Libre from Toluca, Mexico. He specializes in Go, microservices, payments and high-volume asynchronous processing, having designed sequential payment flows, fixed complex Apple Pay/Kushki integrations, and built Go workers for scalable task processing. As a former technical lead at DEUNA and 99minutos, he blends hands-on engineering with documentation, automation, and infrastructure improvements (Docker, gRPC) to consistently deliver production-ready solutions. He also produces technical content and testing automation (Playwright, Postman), reflecting a pragmatic emphasis on developer experience and operational reliability. Notably, he pairs deep backend expertise with a history of mentoring and onboarding developers, accelerating team delivery beyond code alone.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Platzi Master, Web application development, Platzi Master, Web application development at Platzi
Computer Engineer, Software Engineering, Computer Engineer, Software Engineering at Universidad Politécnica del Valle de Toluca
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Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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Juan Esquivel - Senior Software Engineer at Mercado Libre