Summary
Juancarlo Añez is an independent consultant and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of focused experience in analysis, design, programming, and engineering leadership, now based in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale area. He has a strong track record building migration tools and runtimes that modernize legacy systems—authoring widely used parser/compiler generators such as Grako and TatSu that have seen international adoption in both industry and academia. His career spans hands-on engineering roles and director-level leadership at ResQSoft and Zyte, where he also led anti-bot algorithm design and large-scale architectural refactors to improve reliability and remove backlogs. Comfortable from low-level translators to distributed scraping systems, he combines deep language-processing expertise with practical product delivery. A longtime educator and researcher, he co-founded Modelistica and helped build TRANUS, a globally recognized transportation simulation, reflecting a career that blends research, tooling, and real-world impact. Outside of code, his unusual combination of high-level architecture work and decades-long practice as a 6th-degree Aikido practitioner hints at disciplined, patient problem-solving and mentorship.
15 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computing Engineer, Engineer’s Degree Computing Engineer at Universidad Simón Bolívar
Bachiller Ciencias, Bachiller Ciencias at Colegio Emil Friedman
5th grade Life at Brighton England, 5th grade Life at Brighton England at St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
6th degree Aikido, 6th degree Aikido at Santa Fe Dojo
English, French, Italian, Spanish