Experience

  1. 2023 — 2026

    Seoul, South Korea

    Built 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
  2. 2022 — 2023

    Mountain View, CA, United States - Remote

    Built 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
  3. 2020 — 2022

    San Francisco, CA, United States - Remote

    Shipped 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
  4. 2018 — 2020

    Bogotá, Colombia

    Migrated 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

  1. 2023 — 2026

    M.S. in Computer Science · Seoul National University

    Seoul, South Korea

    Dissertation: Backup Deduplication to Support Point-in-Time Recovery in MyRocks.

  2. 2013 — 2018

    B.E. in Computer Science · Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (District University of Bogota)

    Bogotá, Colombia

    Dissertation: Markerless motion capture tool to support physical rehabilitation of soft tissue injuries.