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Jose Baca

@josebaca

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Senior backend engineer and tech lead building scalable Go services and event-driven platforms.

Honduras

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can own backend architecture end-to-end, lead as a Tech Lead, and build Go + event-driven systems with Kafka, strong observability, and production-grade REST APIs.

I’m a senior backend engineer and tech lead with 15+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance software. For the last 5 years, I’ve focused on Go and event-driven architectures, partnering end-to-end on public REST APIs—from design and OpenAPI documentation to rate limiting, idempotency, multi-tenant modeling, observability, and third-party integrations.

In production, I’ve migrated legacy Python and Ruby services to Go with minimal downtime, improving p95 latency and stability. I also designed Kafka-based ETL pipelines into analytical stores like ClickHouse, enabling sub-second BI queries, and built high-performance, low-latency RESTful APIs using idiomatic Go concurrency patterns.

I lead teams and mentor engineers in architectural decisions, clean code practices, and reliable testing patterns (mocks, stubs, table-driven testing). My complementary frontend and data analytics experience—React microfrontends, predictive modeling, and reporting—helps me deliver secure, production-ready applications that scale with real business needs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Software Engineer

Independent (Freelance)

Jan 2008 - Jan 2019 (11 years)

Delivered custom software solutions for healthcare, retail, and logistics clients across Latin America, including a GPS-based fleet monitoring system for real-time tracking and operational visibility. Modernized legacy systems by migrating applications from VB 6.0 to Java and built appointment scheduling and inventory management platforms with robust relational data models and transactional integr

Go Java PostgreSQL MySQL AWS EC2 RDS S3 RESTful APIs GPS Linux

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Holy Trinity Episcopal School

2017 - 2021

Activities and societies: Built a Student Information System (Node.js/Express, Vue.js), PostgreSQL-backed dashboards, a Python/NLTK NLP web app, secure REST APIs, mentored Android apps for the Google Play Store, and managed Linux VPS hosting/deployments.

Designed and developed internal systems, including a Student Information System, and mentored student developer teams from 2017–2021 in La Ceiba, Honduras.