Summary
Sebastián Arcila-valenzuela is a Senior Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building backend systems and data-heavy services, currently based in Amsterdam. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and Clojure, with deep expertise in algorithms, data structures, distributed databases, and Test Driven Development. His career spans high-scale consumer platforms and fintech-like products—from architecting social graph backends for tens of millions of users to enabling subscription commerce for telco plans. Sebastián combines systems-level programming in C/C++ with cloud and messaging technologies (Datomic, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS), and has repeatedly delivered pragmatic solutions that bridge research-grade algorithms and production constraints. Colleagues rely on him for tackling algorithmic complexity in real products and for translating academic rigor into maintainable, testable code.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Systems engineer, Math, Algorithms, Data Structures, Systems engineer, Math, Algorithms, Data Structures at Universidad EAFIT
Spanish, English