Santiago Taborda
Lead Devops Backend Engineer at Stocktwits
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Taborda is a Lead DevOps and Backend Engineer based in Medellín with over a decade of software engineering experience and eight years in senior roles, currently leading infrastructure and backend efforts at Stocktwits. He specializes in distributed systems, systems programming, and cloud-native architectures, designing high-reliability, low-abstraction solutions that prioritize simplicity and scalability. Santiago has led engineering teams at Pager and Salesforce and has a track record of mentoring and coaching developers through roles at Platzi and earlier startups. Comfortable across both startup and enterprise environments, he blends hands-on implementation with architectural judgment to ship resilient services under real-world constraints. He is committed to continuous learning and community engagement, often translating complex system trade-offs into pragmatic operational practices. An interesting detail: his background spans telecom engineering roots and product-facing IoT and security projects, giving him a rare mix of infrastructure depth and user-centered system design.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Multimarket investment and diversification, Finance, General, Multimarket investment and diversification, Finance, General at Universidad de las HespéridesTelecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad de MedellínBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Institución Educativa Jose Manuel Restrepo Velez
Spanish, English
Github Skills (36)
bit10
amqplib9
backend8
rabbitmq8
bunyan8
rabbitmq-client8
nodejs7
monorepo6
frontend6
logging6
golang6
react6
typescript6
javascript6
logger6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gh0stl1m/platzily
Jan 2021 - May 2021
This is an application similar to bit.ly
Contributions:3 reviews, 23 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
golangbitsimilar
platzily/infra
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
platzily-core-infra
Contributions:1 review, 24 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 months
infra
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