Summary
Lacides Barros is a senior web developer based in Barranquilla, Colombia, with a 15-year career focused on building reliable backend systems and APIs. He brings deep Ruby expertise—especially with Ruby on Rails and Sinatra—paired with strong OO design, TDD practices, and experience integrating search with Elastic Search. At Koombea he has driven code quality, testing-first development, and continuous improvement across multiple long-term engagements. His background includes research work building path-finding services with Scala and Cassandra, showing an ability to bridge academic projects and production engineering. Comfortable across SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and Git, he combines pragmatic full-stack instincts with a disciplined testing mindset to deliver maintainable, scalable services.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Systems Engineering, Engineer's degree, Systems Engineering at Universidad del Norte
English, Spanish