Summary
Sebastián Lemus is a Software Engineer based in Bogotá with 9 years of experience building back-end and front-end systems using Java, Kotlin, and TypeScript. He has shipped microservices and cloud-deployed applications on AWS, and favors functional programming approaches demonstrated through work with fp-ts, cats, and Scala. At Xebia and prior roles he developed reservation systems, e-commerce microservices, and expense-tracking backends, often using Docker, Consul, Micronaut and http4s. His academic research implementing and benchmarking phylogenetic tree algorithms reflects a strong algorithmic foundation and attention to correctness. Sebastián blends pragmatic production experience with a curiosity for distributed systems and functional design, contributing to both commercial projects and open-source research tooling.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering at Universidad de los Andes - Colombia
Spanish, English