Senior Software Engineer · Bogotá, Colombia

I design, build, and operate distributed systems — now with LLMs too

I'm Juanse, a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience. I design, build, and scale distributed systems: robust, resilient, and secure.

I work AI-first, and that goes two ways. I build with AI: I bring LLMs and agents into my workflow to develop. And I build AI: I design AI-native products —LLMs and agents at the core— from spec to eval, all the way to production.

Before that I was a founding engineer and tech lead at a fintech: part of the team that built its stablecoins on Polygon and Celo. They moved +US$2,000M without a single incident.

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer | Founding Team

Minteo – Fintech

  • Led the design of the core settlement platform — on/off-ramps, fund disbursement, mint/burn, and the KYC/compliance module built under regulatory mandate and monthly external audits.
  • Operated in production a platform that settled over USD $2B in on-chain volume across Latin America — peaking at over USD $300M in a single month — supporting more than 100,000 end users through B2B clients.
  • Designed the multi-token, multi-country architecture and led the expansion to new blockchain networks, enabling a roadmap of six regional stablecoins without rewriting the core.
  • Led a team of four to five engineers for over three years, reporting directly to the CTO.

The milestone reached the press: La República covered it when the system crossed US$200M monthly. And since the blockchain is public, I audited it on-chain: every figure is verifiable.

Software Engineer

Cóndor Labs

  • Implemented a Redis caching layer over the heaviest database queries of a B2B SaaS product, cutting perceived latency on the highest-traffic endpoints.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions for the client's backend services, eliminating manual deploys and standardizing the release cycle of a five-engineer team.

Software Engineer

Arvolution – Healthtech

  • Built Python ETL workflows on AWS Lambda processing workplace-incident data from industrial plants, feeding the analytics behind regulatory reports for clients such as Bavaria.
  • Implemented GraphQL APIs exposing incident and operational data to the product's frontends, backed by a serverless, event-driven persistence layer.

Software Engineer

TuProp – Proptech

  • Helped build the company's application MVP end-to-end, contributing across the frontend and a GraphQL backend to launch the product's first version.
  • Integrated the OpenStreetMap API to power maps and geolocation in the property search experience.
  • Built web scrapers and ETL pipelines with Puppeteer to collect and populate listings for the property catalog.

Projects

COPM — On-chain Audit & Analysis

Reproducible audit of the stablecoin I helped build at Minteo: 317,696 Transfer events scanned straight from Polygon and Celo via RPC, ~US$2,046 million in volume verified against the live chain.

Under NDA I can't show the company's code — but the blockchain is public. Custom scanning pipeline (no indexers, no third-party APIs), automated validation, SVG charts built from scratch, and the story told for any audience.

Blog

Systems Thinking

10 min read

AI can write the code for you. What it cannot do is see the second-order effects of every decision. That skill has a name, and it is trainable.

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About me

My name is Juan Sebastián Agudelo, but you can call me Juanse. I started programming at 19, pivoting my whole life: I was a finance student on a scholarship.

Curiosity has shaped my life for as long as I can remember, and it is what pushed me to learn programming on my own.

I write about what I learn along the way, because to teach is to learn twice.

I deeply believe in continuous education in every form —formal, online, or self-taught— as the way to keep growing both personally and professionally.

I firmly believe the future will always be better. It is the only way to build it.

Muss es sein? Es muss sein!

Skills

Languages
TypeScript · Python
Frameworks
Fastify · FastAPI · React · Next.js · GraphQL
Cloud & Infra
AWS · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · CI/CD pipelines
Async Processing
Temporal.io · Message Queues
Databases
PostgreSQL · DynamoDB · Redis
Architecture
Event-driven · Serverless
AI
LLMs · AI Agents · LangGraph · LangFuse