Julian Amaya
Co-Founder at GeniePM
Bogota, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolJulián Amaya is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 14+ years building focused product studios and startups from Bogotá. As co-founder and CEO of Monoku and more recently GeniePM, he guides small, high-touch teams to take ideas from design and validation through launch and scale, personally shepherding client projects. His background blends hands-on backend work—contributing bug fixes and stability improvements to notable open-source Django tooling like sorl-thumbnail—with leadership roles as CTO and team lead in earlier ventures. Trained as a software engineer with a specialist credential in information security from Universidad de Los Andes, he brings pragmatic technical depth alongside a strong emphasis on product polish and sustainable processes. Clients appreciate that he limits engagements to ensure founder-level attention and craftsmanship throughout the build.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los Andes
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (7)
debugging10
debug10
lib10
python10
django10
code-cleanup9
maintenance9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/sorl-thumbnail
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
Thumbnails for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Django thumbnail library. Their work involved addressing issues related to unsupported Django settings and fixing problems with the dummy image functionality. The user also removed unused imports and a temporary code change, indicating a focus on code cleanup and stability. This suggests a role centered on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the library.
djangothumbnails
julian-amaya/django-decorators
Aug 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 2 years 5 months
djangopythondecorators
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