María Zubillaga
Software Engineer at eduNEXT
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolMaría Zubillaga is a backend-focused Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building and maintaining production systems, currently leading platform and microfrontend API initiatives at eduNEXT in Bogotá. She has deep Django and Open edX expertise, contributing to the widely used Open edX platform by adding and hardening MFE APIs, integration with Django settings, and unit tests. Her background spans payments and integrations (Stripe, GitHub, Discord) and Linux systems administration, giving her a practical full-stack operations perspective. A trained computer engineer who describes herself as a dancer by birth and writer by hobby, she blends discipline, creativity, and empathy into technical leadership. Notably, she proposed and now maintains a third-party eCommerce integration for the platform, demonstrating both initiative and long-term ownership.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Engineering, Engineer, Computer Engineering at Simón Bolívar University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
api-rest10
rest-api10
backend10
data-service10
python10
back-end-development10
api-design10
webservice10
restful-api10
django10
testing9
celery8
networkx6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:María primarily contributed to back-end development within the Open edX platform. Their work includes fixing issues related to Unicode submission history, refactoring celery imports, and adding and refining the MFE API. The user also focused on integrating the MFE API with django settings and added unit tests for the new API. Furthermore, the user addressed code style issues and removed unnecessary configurations.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
eduNEXT/openedx-wordpress-ecommerce
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
You can sell your Open edX courses with WooCommerce using this free and open-source WordPress plugin.
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 148 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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