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Ambrosio Gómez

@ambrosiogmez

Software Technical Leader at Mercado Libre who led a 10-engineer team on a backend handling nearly 2M requests per minute.

Colombia

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At Mercado Libre, I led a 10-engineer team supporting the Product Detail Page backend, which handled nearly 2M requests per minute. I also redesigned shipping integration and delivered secure public endpoints for user reviews.

Earlier at Mercado Libre, I architected an event-driven Go proxy service that increased scraping capacity 10x. I co-designed a visual platform for asynchronous scraping workflows and streamed transaction summaries to BigQuery.

At the Colombian Stock Exchange, I led a migration to AWS cloud-native services and designed integrations between on-premises systems and AWS. I also worked on trading-system integrations and a Nasdaq INET upgrade.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Software Technical Leader

Mercado Libre

Mar 2024 - Oct 2026 (2 years 7 months)

Led a cross-functional team of 10 engineers supporting a business-critical Java/Spring Boot backend handling nearly 2M requests per minute. Led redesigns of shipping integration, user-reviews middleend, and PDP components, and drove observability and AI-assisted development workflows.

Java Spring Boot BigQuery Datadog A B Testing Feature Flags CI CD Claude Code Codex

Senior Software Engineer

Mercado Libre

Sep 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 5 months)

Architected and implemented an event-driven Go proxy service, increasing scraping capacity 10x from ~200K to ~2M pages/day across ~40 competitors. Co-designed a visual platform for composing asynchronous scraping workflows and implemented workload warm-up, rate limiting, and monitoring.

Go Kafka BigQuery Datadog Event Driven Architecture Rate limiting Monitoring

Software Architect

Colombian Stock Exchange

Nov 2019 - Sep 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Led migration of the exchange's legacy Tomcat web portal to AWS ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, and Redis, among the organization's first cloud-native architectures. Designed hybrid integrations using Spring Boot adapters and Kafka to move data from on-premises systems into AWS data services.

AWS AWS ECS Fargate RDS PostgreSQL Redis Spring Boot Kafka Cloud Architecture

Senior Software Engineer

Colombian Stock Exchange

Mar 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 7 months)

Led changes for a Nasdaq INET trading-engine upgrade across 30+ integration services, guiding two developers. Helped reduce the Level 3 incident backlog from 100+ to single digits and mentored integration teams.

Java C++INET Integration Mentorship

Software Engineer

Colombian Stock Exchange

Jan 2015 - Mar 2017 (2 years 2 months)

Built and maintained trading, back-office, and post-trade integrations supporting ~10K transactions/day. Delivered master-data synchronization and service recertification.

Trading Systems Back Office Post Trade Integration SQL