Roger Padilla is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience building AI-driven, full-stack systems and leading teams to deliver production-grade solutions. He has repeatedly translated complex business requirements into scalable architectures—from migrating legacy enterprise healthcare platforms to launching end-to-end AI infrastructure for transportation and an embeddable multi-LLM Superbar widget. Comfortable across NestJS, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Java/Spring and vector search, he combines advanced prompt engineering and agent design with practical engineering like realtime web crawling pipelines and Postgres+PgVector-based RAG. Roger partners directly with stakeholders (including C-level) to prioritize impact, and his background spans both hands-on feature delivery and technical leadership. A detail that surfaces across his roles: he often drives incremental, low-risk migration strategies (JSCodeShift, TS adoption, Angular migrations) that reduce technical debt while enabling rapid innovation. Based in Envigado, Colombia, he thrives on mastering new technologies quickly and turning them into measurable product value.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer specialist, Software Architect, Software Engineer specialist, Software Architect at Distrital University
Computer Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad de San Buenaventura
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