Julian Alvarez
Engineer at Augmented Engineering UG
Weil am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Alvarez is a seasoned engineering leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience and 20+ years of leadership delivering scalable systems, cloud optimizations, and cost-saving technical strategies across startups and enterprise fintech. He has led cross-functional teams through reorganizations and layoffs while maintaining morale and driving measurable outcomes—like a $50k annual ops cost reduction and a 90% faster API test authoring workflow via a custom DSL. As CTO and senior architect he scaled products into new markets, mentored engineering leads, and instituted Rapid Application Development, TDD, and Continuous Delivery practices across diverse tech stacks (Ruby, Python, Go, Elixir, Rust). Comfortable with high-pressure regulated environments, he cut incident response times from days to hours and helped remote-first teams transition without SLA impact. Based in Weil am Rhein, Germany, he blends Unix-philosophy pragmatism with Agile and DevOps discipline to align engineering work tightly with business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Computer Science, Master in Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaSystems Engineer, Computer Science, Systems Engineer, Computer Science at Universidad Piloto de Colombia
Github Skills (54)
ajax10
http-client10
nodejs10
javascript9
authentication9
browser9
xmlhttprequest9
sinatra9
devise8
bed8
mhealth8
rails8
genomes8
cancer-genomics7
github-app7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
julianvargasalvarez/scratch_pad
Apr 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 8 months
julianvargasalvarez/rails
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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