Miguel Galindo
Backend Engineer (Java) at Mercado Libre
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolMiguel Galindo is a backend engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, high-performance services using Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin and Go, currently driving catalog and image-processing features at Mercado Libre. He has a strong track record improving search and API latency—optimizing OpenSearch and Solr-based CMS search and shaving seconds off newsletter generation and lookup responses via in-memory and data-model changes. Miguel moves comfortably between legacy Java 8 systems and cutting-edge Java 21 deployments, and has led cross-functional efforts that combine messaging, cloud tooling and analytics (BigQuery/Looker) to increase product adoption. He favors clean, performant code and pragmatic architecture choices such as circuit breakers and rate limiting to harden systems against real-world outages. Based in Bogotá with a Systems and Computing degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, he pairs hands-on implementation with measurable operational improvements. A detail that often goes unseen: he blends front-end experience (Angular/React) with backend optimizations, enabling end-to-end features that improve both developer workflows and user-facing metadata quality.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Systems and Computing, Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Systems and Computing at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
javascript9
markdown9
dsa-algorithm8
dropzone8
clustering-algorithm8
appwrite7
file-upload7
e-mail6
html6
react6
css6
material-ui6
docker6
grails6
algorithms6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
You-Dont-Know-JS-ES/Traduccion
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Traducción de la serie de JavaScript. YDKJS
Contributions:5 reviews, 26 commits, 43 PRs in 1 year 2 months
javascript
mballen-1/mballen-1.github.io
Aug 2017 - Feb 2024
Static content page regarding my academic profile powered by Jekyll!
Contributions:4 PRs, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
jekyllstatic-content
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