Juan Robles
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Modak
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolJuan Robles is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and cloud architect based in Bogotá with 11 years of experience building resilient AWS-native platforms and leading engineering teams. He has transitioned from hands-on roles—managing telephony, networking, and cloud services—to senior leadership as Head of Engineering at Merqueo and now as Senior SRE at Modak, blending operational rigor with strategic platform vision. Juan's open-source contributions include meaningful enhancements to the mosca MQTT broker, improving persistence and session handling across Redis, MongoDB and LevelUp backends, signaling deep familiarity with distributed messaging and persistence patterns. He combines a telecom engineering background and practical Linux/Java/bash skills with a penchant for refactoring legacy systems into unified, test-backed components. Colleagues rely on him to bridge infrastructure, developer experience, and product needs while keeping systems observable and fault-tolerant. He brings a pragmatic, improvement-oriented mindset that favors measurable reliability gains over theoretical complexity.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Telecomunicaciones, tcp/ip, desarrollo java, linux, bash, 0, Ingeniero en Telecomunicaciones, tcp/ip, desarrollo java, linux, bash, 0 at Universidad de Pamplona
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (9)
mqtt10
javascript10
nodejs10
persistence10
mongodb10
redis10
mongodb-database10
mqttnet10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moscajs/mosca
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
MQTT broker as a module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 14 days
Contributions summary:Juan primarily worked on enhancing the Mosca MQTT broker. Their contributions include adding a new option to store QoS 0 messages, modifying the persistence layer implementations (Redis, MongoDB, LevelUp, and Abstract) to incorporate this feature, and fixing issues related to session management. They also added and modified tests to ensure the correct behavior of the new feature and the sessionPresent flag. Furthermore, the user refactored the persistence code for a unified behavior.
brokermosquittoopcuamqttmqtt-client
juanenriqueescobar/subcommander
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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