Summary
Manuel Pineda is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently building scalable systems at Google in Germany. A two-time ACM‑ICPC World Finalist and top-ranked Colombian in multiple Google Code Jam competitions, he combines deep algorithmic skill with practical distributed-systems engineering. His background spans backend services, ETL and observability (Python, AWS, Airflow, Graphite/StatsD) as well as real‑time geolocation platforms using Node.js and ZeroMQ. As a co-organizer of PereiraJS and Pereira Tech Talks, he brings community leadership and mentoring experience alongside hands‑on design and deployment work. Less obvious: he has repeatedly translated competitive programming rigor into production reliability, optimizing accuracy and data pipelines in high-throughput environments.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Engineer in Computing and Computer Sciences, CS., Bachelor's degree, Engineer in Computing and Computer Sciences, CS. at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
English, Spanish, Portuguese