Miguel Jiménez
Backend Engineer (Senior) at Deel
Colombia
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Top SchoolMiguel Jiménez is a senior backend and platform engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable cloud-native systems, currently contributing to Deel's backend platform from Colombia. His background spans startups and enterprise environments—founding Varxen, leading DevOps at Edurita, and teaching Python and Docker as a course developer—giving him a blend of hands-on engineering, operational rigor, and mentoring experience. He holds advanced academic credentials including an M.Sc. in ICT and Ph.D. work in computer science, which informs a research-minded approach to practical system design. Miguel is comfortable across the stack of backend services, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling, and has repeatedly moved between building products and enabling teams to ship faster. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex research ideas into production-ready solutions and to bootstrap engineering practices in early-stage ventures. Based in Colombia, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with deep technical chops and a track record of shipping resilient backend systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of VictoriaBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Systems Engineering at Universidad ICESIHonors High School Diploma with Industrial Major in Electronics, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician, Honors High School Diploma with Industrial Major in Electronics, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician at Santa Isabel de Hungría
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
unicesi/pascani
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 739 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
deployingmonitorschartdslruntime
jachinte/jachinte.github.io
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:164 commits, 148 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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