Yeison

Tech Lead Colombia
10 yrs experienceEnglish Fluent
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Skills
Javascript10ySql9ySoftware Architecture8y
Secondary skills
MicroservicesNode.jsFintech SystemsEngineering Leadership
Experience
Technical Lead
Mar 2025 – Present · United States
Created the harness, rules and policies to use AI in the company for Code reviews, product requirements, QA checklist and automatic deployments. Decreased the compiling time of the UI solution from webpack to Rspack (Rust based) from 19 mins to 1.1 min, that’s 17.27× faster. This allows the team to reduce the time by their task in 68% and pipelines bill reduction to 78%. Lead a team of 12 people from devs to QA to create 3 solutions in less than a year that impacted on reducing the calls to customer services by 90%. Solutions used were Typescript, Serverless, AWS and PostgreSQL. Do mentorship, groom tickets and translate product ideas to technical steps, in solutions to payments, and back offices solutions. This required solved complex architect decisions and tradeoffs.
PostgresqlTypescriptWebpackRustAwsServerlessAI
Javascript Content Creator
Sep 2018 – Present · Colombia
Create tutorials about new javascript technologies, frameworks, testing, architecture and much more. Create the first group of collaborators in Popayan, Cauca to teach javascript to childs.
Javascript
Senior Software Engineer — Tech Lead
Aug 2024 – Feb 2025
Developed automated influencer workflow platform using Retool, reducing manual tasks by 70% and processing 1000+ daily campaigns. Built custom Retool components and integrations with payment gateways, handling $5M+ monthly transactions. Optimized ElasticSearch implementation achieving 87% faster query response (8s to 1s) for 1M+ user database. Lead team of 4 engineers in implementing auto bank reconciliations with ML transaction matching. Setup Cypress for automated testing on Nexjs project, achieving 75% of the main flows covered. Setup and increase test coverage on frontend and backend from 0 up to 83% with Jest. Setup docker containers for frontend, backend, caching and DB apps with Docker and docker compose.
Next.jsDocker ComposeCypressJestDockerElasticsearch
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 2023 – Jul 2024 · Colombia
Created a gateway for KYB/KYC to reduce the amount of servers to be spun saving costs, developers time and debugging facility in NodeJS. Increaste the testing coverage of unit and integration testing from 30% to 90% with Typescript with NodeJS and React. Create new registration flows with support for mulitple countries with React and TS. Setup a runbook to solve issues regarding failed transactions with EMEA providers, including Stripe.
StripeTypescriptReact.jsNode.js
Senior Backend Engineer
Sep 2022 – Mar 2023 · Colombia
Reduced the data transfered on some APIs by 35% by implementing gRPC with Nodejs and protobuffer. Configured a project to detect with Husky and Eslint, Prettier issues with code styling before commiting.
Node.jsEslintGrpc
Senior Web Engineer
Jun 2022 – Sep 2022 · United States
In charge of creating and maintaining the registration page and the different flows it has, for the 200+ countries where PayPal has operations. The technologies used were React+NodeJS+Typescript. Proposed ideas to reduce the steps to create a new account in some countries based on data that was not used and other data we can collect from internal databases.
Node.jsReact.jsTypescript
Tech Lead — Full Stack Engineer
Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · Colombia
In charge of creating and design new functionalities for the company. Be in contact with the clients, CTO and CEO to discuss and validate new business ideas and validate in a technical level stories on JIRA. Create the MFA login system for the current tool using AWS and Nodejs with serverless. Enhanced response times by 40% on several APIs with NodeJS and Typescript and implementing caching techniques. Lead a team of 15 people to create high quality software requirements and projects for Bakertilly, biggest firm on US for taxes. Maintain and create new components based on React, and react-router with Material UI and AG-grid. Create serverless components for high demand apis on certain times with AWS Lambdas. Create documentation in how to create performant APIs and resolve common issues with current architecture and deployment.
TypescriptReact.jsNode.jsNode.jsAwsServerlessJiraMaterial ui
Tech Lead - Consultor [Side project]
Jan 2017 – Apr 2022 · Colombia
Design and build the 1st version of Asakaa, a project management tool. Stack used was: PostgreSQL, Nodejs, React.js, Material UI. Lead the team (5 people) to enhance and maintain the current fuatures. Create the pipelines to build frontend and backend repositories inside Azure. Maintain and enhance legacy system for project management using Django and apis using SQLAlchemy.
Material uiDjangoSqlalchemyNode.jsPostgresqlAzureReact.js
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · Colombia
Create an internal tool for all the employees connected to internal APIs of Siigo, this reduced the support tickets for developers by 15%. Removed and refactor more than 1k lines of duplicated code, reducing code debt by 25%.
APIs
Full Stack Engineer
Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · Colombia
Responsible for the design and development of a holen new innovaction tool for the company with React and Material Design.
React.jsMaterial Design
Auxiliar English teacher
Mar 2015 – Dec 2017 · Colombia
One of the leaders of the English conversation groups during my college years, where I helped all the people who came to get a foothold in English, helped with the application for the conversation spaces and encouraged people about the goodness of English in their lives, besides being a super fun language.
Full Stack Engineer
Jan 2015 – Aug 2017 · Colombia
Architect and develop an academic system to enable reporting, notes, grades, faults and somuch for for 4 schools with 1000 students in total. Create a pipeline to automated the development deployment process which was totally manual with githooks and github actions.

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