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Cristian Camilo Gamboa Vargas

@cristiancamilogamboa

Senior full-stack engineer building cloud-native microservices, data pipelines, and automation to boost performance and reliability.

Colombia

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a product-minded team where I can build cloud-native microservices, streaming/ETL data pipelines, and secure APIs—while using Terraform and CI/CD automation to improve performance, reliability, and developer productivity in an Agile/DevOps culture.

I’m a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 8 years building scalable backend systems, designing data pipelines, and improving DevOps practices. I focus on cloud-native development, microservices, and secure API design—turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable services.

In my recent role, I designed and maintained scalable back-end APIs (Java Spring Boot, FastAPI, and Django REST Framework), improving application performance by 25%. I architected data models and deployed microservices with Docker and Kubernetes across AWS EKS clusters, achieving 99.99% uptime, and built event-driven architectures with Kafka and RabbitMQ to enhance scalability.

I’m hands-on across ETL and streaming workloads, using Kafka, Airflow, and containerized workflows to deliver near real-time processing and stronger fault tolerance. I also automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and strengthen delivery with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab CI), including refactoring legacy systems and migration work that reduced technical debt and accelerated releases.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Web Developer

CodeBright

Mar 2025 - Feb 2026 (11 months)

Designed and maintained scalable back-end APIs with Java Spring Boot, FastAPI, and Django REST Framework, improving application performance by 25%. Architected microservices and data/event-driven systems with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and RabbitMQ, achieving 99.99% uptime.

Spring Boot fastAPI Django REST Framework Docker Kubernetes Kafka RabbitMQ Terraform Jenkins

Full Stack Developer

IBM

Aug 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 year 6 months)

Led microservices development with Python FastAPI, Java Spring Boot, and Go for high-throughput financial and analytics workloads. Built streaming pipelines with Kafka and Redis Streams and refactored legacy services to C#/.NET Core microservices, improving deployment velocity.

fastAPI Go Spring Boot Kafka REDIS Streams C# .NET Core Airflow Angular React

Backend Developer

Cisco

Oct 2020 - Jul 2023 (2 years 9 months)

Built backend services in Python, Java, and Go delivering 99.99% uptime and created a Python-based GraphQL API to unify disparate data sources. Reduced latency by implementing Redis caching and asynchronous queues, and improved delivery speed by setting up Jenkins/GitLab CI pipelines that cut deployment cycles from 1 hour to 10 minutes.

Python Java Go GraphQL OAUTH2 Redis Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Gitlab CI

Frontend Developer

Adobe

Jun 2017 - Sep 2020 (3 years 3 months)

Built scalable React and Next.js systems using SSR and SSG, reducing page load times by 60% and improving Core Web Vitals and SEO performance. Developed reusable components with drag-and-drop, collaborated with design/UX in Figma and Storybook, and delivered secure internal API integrations using OAuth2.

React Next.js Component Architecture Figma Storybook OAUTH2 Typescript Javascript