Miguel Prieto
Senior Backend Engineer at Toptal
Paraguay
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Top SchoolMiguel Prieto is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile applications from idea to production. He has deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native deployments (AWS, Docker, Terraform) and has led backend architecture, API design, and CI/CD for multiple startups and enterprise projects. At Orkes he helped commercialize and secure Netflix Conductor-derived orchestration, integrating enterprise auth providers and driving SOC2 Type 2 readiness—work that also includes upstream contributions to the popular Conductor open-source project. His background spans full-stack and infrastructure work, from WebRTC video streaming and GraphQL to Kafka-based messaging and performance tuning of HTTP tasks. Known for combining hands-on coding with technical project leadership, he often takes ownership of security, compliance, and release processes in addition to feature delivery. Based in Paraguay, he pairs curiosity and continuous learning with a track record of shipping reliable systems and improving developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
javas10
distributed-systems10
workflow-automation10
redis10
java10
spring-boot10
testing9
workflow-management9
orchestration9
workflow-engine9
microservices9
maven8
grpc8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
conductor-oss/conductor
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Conductor is an event driven orchestration platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 53 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Conductor project, focusing on the implementation of Redis password authentication support across different configurations, including cluster and standalone setups. They also added tests related to the workflow completion logic, ensuring that workflows with optional tasks in a terminal state are correctly marked as completed. Additionally, the user made improvements to the codebase to support and refactor various test cases and integrations. Their work also included refactoring Maven publishing configurations.
distributed-systemsdurable-executiongrpcjavajavascript
jmigueprieto/ticket-linter
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Jira Cloud application that analyzes stories/issues and reports violations
Contributions:65 commits, 24 PRs, 39 pushes in 17 days
sarifreportsjira-cloudviolationscloud-application
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