Experience
2023 — 2026 Seoul, South KoreaBuilt MySQL-RocksDB backup tooling cutting storage 60% and recovery 20%, researched LSM-tree and HTAP (OLTP/OLAP) optimizations to maximize write throughput for AI ingestion pipelines.
- MySQL
- RocksDB
- C++
- HTAP
- Sysbench
2022 — 2023 Mountain View, CA, United States - RemoteBuilt real-time Kafka streaming pipelines and AI infrastructure at Confluent, integrating event streams with vector databases to power enterprise RAG architectures at scale.
- Kafka
- AWS Cloud
- Python
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- Pinecone
2020 — 2022 San Francisco, CA, United States - RemoteShipped Torre's first AI recruiting assistant, building data pipelines serving millions of talent profiles, and optimized candidate pages with SSR, cutting load times 60% and boosting SEO.
- Scala
- Nuxt.js
- MySQL
- AWS Cloud
- RabbitMQ
- Sentry
2018 — 2020 Bogotá, ColombiaMigrated legacy monoliths to microservices at Colombia's national science agency, centralizing 75K+ data assets and managing SLA-bound integrations with Elsevier, Springer Nature, and ACM..
- Java
- Spring boot
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Aurora
- Docker
Education
2023 — 2026 M.S. in Computer Science · Seoul National University
Seoul, South KoreaDissertation: Backup Deduplication to Support Point-in-Time Recovery in MyRocks.
2013 — 2018 B.E. in Computer Science · Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (District University of Bogota)
Bogotá, ColombiaDissertation: Markerless motion capture tool to support physical rehabilitation of soft tissue injuries.