Manuel Barraza
Back End Developer at Apply Digital
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolManuel Barraza is a backend-focused Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable APIs and middleware, currently driving backend development at Apply Digital from Edinburgh. He has a proven track record designing AWS-based solutions—Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB—and automating payment and notification workflows that improved customer satisfaction and operational efficiency across US and Chilean projects. Manuel consistently reduces latency and costs through pragmatic infrastructure and API design (notable past results: 30% faster responses, 40% hosting cost reduction), and he pairs TypeScript/Node backend expertise with practical frontend collaboration to cut user-reported issues by the vast majority. Comfortable as a senior individual contributor and mentor, he has led cross-functional integrations with Contentful, legacy systems and GraphQL to deliver nationwide systems and automated refunds that save significant manual effort. His background combines startup agility and enterprise reliability, and he recently augmented his technical profile with an MSc in Business Information Technology focused on IT project management.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Informatics Engineer, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics Engineer, Computer Engineering at Universidad Catolica del NorteMSc. Business Information Technology, Management of information technology projects, MSc. Business Information Technology, Management of information technology projects at Edinburgh Napier University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
map-box10
mapbox-gl-js10
point-of-interest10
viro-react10
augmented-reality-applications10
gear-vr10
arcore10
android-application10
javascript9
oculus9
android9
react9
daydream8
virtual-reality8
ios8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mherrerabarraza/mapbox-viroreact-point-of-interes
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
An Mapbox and ViroReact integration to navigate to a POI using Augmented Reality
Contributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 4 months
augmented-realitymap-boxviro-reactandroidandroid-application
mherrerabarraza/scottishpower
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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