Summary
Santiago Mondragón-gómez is an SSr Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building high-traffic backend microservices and APIs, primarily using Go and Kotlin, for Mercado Libre across 17 Latin American countries. He has designed and maintained systems that serve millions of users, led seamless decommissioning efforts for user-facing projects, and defined integration test suites to ensure backend reliability. Santiago also bridges backend and frontend work, contributing to JavaScript/React codebases and driving critical dependency migrations. He created a metrics dashboard on Looker Studio tied to BigQuery to surface KPIs that directly informed management decisions. Based in Bogotá and trained as a Computer Systems Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, he pairs practical, production-first engineering with a curiosity for music, analog photography and audiovisual preservation that inspires his attention to long-term data care.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Spanish, English, Portuguese