Santiago Bernal is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and teaching developer communities from Pereira, Colombia. He currently combines hands-on backend work at Publicis Groupe (Java, Node.js, AWS) with running Aumentada, a hosting and security-focused consultancy. A prolific educator and community builder, he has taught Node.js, AWS, testing and security at multiple bootcamps and platforms while organizing PereiraJS and PereiraTechTalks. His open-source work includes backend APIs like a Node/Express/Mongo todo app, reflecting a pragmatic focus on API design, data modeling and deployment. Pragmatic and security-minded, he blends operational sysadmin roots with modern cloud-native architectures and a passion for spreading knowledge.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Preicfes universitario, Matemáticas, Preicfes universitario, Matemáticas at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
Ingeniero de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones, Sistemas de información, Ingeniero de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones, Sistemas de información at Universidad Católica de Pereira
Certified Offensive and Defensive Security Professional – CODPS, Seguridad informática y de sistemas, Certificación en seguridad ofensiva y defensiva, Certified Offensive and Defensive Security Professional – CODPS, Seguridad informática y de sistemas, Certificación en seguridad ofensiva y defensiva at dsteam seguridad
Todo App with nodeJs, Express, Mongoose and MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 reviews, 65 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributed to building the back-end functionality of a Todo app. Their work involved setting up the server configuration, database connections (MongoDB), and defining routes and controllers for user management. They implemented user creation, retrieval, update, and deletion features, including creating the user model. Additionally, they refactored the folder structure and built the necessary backend API endpoints.
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 60 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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Santiago Bernal - Senior Software Engineer at Publicis Groupe