Summary
Sebastian Gomez is an engineering manager with 9+ years building and leading teams that deliver cloud-native web and mobile products, currently shaping developer experience at Twilio after leading Backstage and Tanzu integrations at VMware. He blends deep frontend expertise (React, Angular, Vue, React Native) with backend and infra skills (Node.js, Go, Docker, Kubernetes) and a research-driven master's background in systems engineering. A Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, he regularly presents at international conferences and has an uncommon mix of industry-scale product delivery and hands-on academic research in NLP, ontologies, and ML. He has steered major migrations and architectures—such as React Native and Next.js transformations for high-traffic clients—and built CI/CD integrations for Tekton, Flux and Jenkins. As an educator and curriculum author, he has trained engineers across universities and platforms like Platzi and Acámica, bringing measurable, metrics-focused practices to teams. Based in Medellín, Colombia, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a persistent drive to quantify and improve developer and product outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Systems Engineering, 4.6, Master's degree, Systems Engineering, 4.6 at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
English, Spanish