Summary
Juan Garcia is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hamburg with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, microservice-driven applications and payment systems. He blends a Java-centered backend pedigree with hands-on Node.js/NestJS, React, Kubernetes and GCP expertise, having delivered production services for ad tech and e-commerce platforms. Juan mentors engineers (including as a Thinkful mentor), values clean, user-friendly software, and has repeatedly owned end-to-end integrations with payment providers and asset pipelines. He’s comfortable across the stack—from front-end UX polish to backend performance tuning—and has a track record of improving scalability and operability in Kubernetes environments. Outside work he shares his curiosity for computer science and tooling on a technical YouTube channel, reflecting a knack for teaching as well as building.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureatus in Scientiis, Computer Science, Baccalaureatus in Scientiis, Computer Science at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
English, Spanish