Mauricio Contreras
Senior Software Developer at Mercado Libre
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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Top SchoolMauricio Contreras is a Senior Software Developer based in Medellín with 7 years of experience building Java-based, object-oriented systems and integrating microservices for enterprise customers. He has a bioengineering background from Universidad de Antioquia and practical exposure to embedded/robotics work — from PCB design to EMG calibration for assistive devices — which gives him a strong systems-thinking perspective. At Sofka he led integrations spanning REST, async messaging, transactional events, notifications and frontend clients, and he now continues that work at Mercado Libre. He earned focused training in Object-Oriented Programming in Java from Duke University and won a university award for a Unity-based medical simulator, showing an uncommon blend of software, simulation and biomedical domain experience. A participant in regional innovation challenges, he combines disciplined engineering with a track record of delivering certified, customer-ready features across distributed architectures.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor´s degree, Bioengineer and Bio-medical engineer, Bachelor´s degree, Bioengineer and Bio-medical engineer at Universidad de AntioquiaObject Oriented Programming in Java, Software Development, Object Oriented Programming in Java, Software Development at Duke University
English
Github Skills (2)
testing5
vite4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Humanos3D/Distance-Sensing-Arm-Prosthetic-Prototype
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:49 commits in 1 month
MauricioZapata00/mcp-web-porter
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
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