Yeison Vargas
Senior Software Engineer at Safety Cybersecurity
Colombia
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Top SchoolYeison Vargas is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems across Python, Django, Ruby on Rails, Java, JSP and PHP, and currently focuses on securing development ecosystems at Safety Cybersecurity. He has a strong open-source streak, contributing to pyupio/safety to harden Python dependency checks and improve CLI reliability and test coverage. Comfortable leading distributed teams, Yeison organizes geographically dispersed engineering groups, manages Git workflows, and serves as a Scrum Master to drive agile delivery. His background includes hands-on roles from CTO to iOS developer, giving him both strategic and implementation perspectives. Based in Colombia, he studies machine learning, AI, and computer vision, bringing growing expertise in applied intelligence to his security and backend work. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer and free-software advocate who blends developer tooling, security, and team leadership.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
IngenierĂa, Systems Engineering, IngenierĂa, Systems Engineering at Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (13)
python10
package-management10
security9
vulnerability-detection9
dependency-management9
text-formatting7
pytest7
formatting7
css6
google-compute-engine6
web-application6
apache6
django6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pyupio/safety
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Safety checks Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and suggests the proper remediations for vulnerabilities detected.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 40 reviews, 165 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Yeison's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `safety` project by adding a patch for Safety 2.0b1 and improving the code's grammar and formatting. These changes involved modifying the `output_utils.py` file. The user also tested the CLI by including announcement messages and verifying a test case, also modifying test files. The user demonstrated experience in python and code improvements.
dependenciespythonsecurity-toolsvulnerabilitiessecurity
yeisonvargasf/ShoppingCart-Backend
Mar 2017 - Aug 2021
A Python/Django Backend for mobile apps.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
pythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-backendbackend
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