Juan Sebastián Vaca Tibocha
Ingeniero de Datos & Software
Data Engineer focused on designing scalable cloud analytics infrastructure that turns data into business decisions. Open to roles with international scope and full availability to travel.
Work experience
Alquileres J&M — Equipment management system (Freelance)
Nov 2025 – PresentFull-stack developer
Nov 2025 – Present- Designed and built an end-to-end equipment-rental management platform for a construction company, deployed to production on AWS EC2 and RDS.
- Manages 200+ assets with real-time inventory tracking, client billing and an admin dashboard; replaced a manual paper-and-Excel process, speeding up pre-billing and improving inventory control.
- Stack: Next.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL.
Anthology – Blackboard
Sep 2021 – May 2026Software Engineer I
Oct 2024 – May 2026- Built and shipped end-to-end features across a React frontend and a Java/TypeScript backend, including new release conditions giving instructors control over students' adaptive learning paths.
- Ran performance testing (SME) with Aladdin, validating features under real load before each release cycle.
- Upheld engineering standards through structured code reviews and close collaboration with PMs, QA and design in an agile environment, reducing rework.
Associate Software Engineer
Sep 2021 – Oct 2024- Built ETL pipelines and AWS Lambda functions for large-scale data ingestion via S3 and API Gateway, and designed QuickSight dashboards enabling admins at 500+ universities to make data-driven decisions.
- Migrated a critical provisioning flow to AWS Step Functions, replacing a fragile process with a resilient state machine that eliminated timeout errors and reduced provisioning failures.
- Modeled data in Snowflake with row-level security (RLS) by institutional hierarchy, ensuring reliable BI reporting for 500+ university tenants.
- Promoted to the Blackboard Ultra product team in 2023, contributing full-stack features used by millions of students.
Heinsohn
Jul 2020 – Sep 2021Junior Software Engineer
Jan 2021 – Sep 2021- Built BI dashboards and reports in Qlik Sense for enterprise clients such as DHL Global Forwarding, and developed ETL pipelines with SSIS and SQL Server feeding the data warehouse.
- Administered databases and supported data quality, resolving incidents across the warehouse and ETL jobs in production.
- Promoted from intern to full-time in 6 months for performance and autonomous problem-solving.
Innovation & BI Intern
Jul 2020 – Dec 2020- Designed a cross-department internal innovation strategy and contributed to real client projects with Qlik Sense from day one, formalizing processes and improving knowledge sharing.
Education
M.Sc. in Information Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jul 2024Universidad de los Andes
Thesis: an ML system for Sika predicting inventory-expiration probability from historical data, reducing operational losses and improving stock turnover.
B.Sc. in Systems & Computing Engineering
Aug 2016 – Dec 2020Universidad de los Andes
Thesis: signal classification to identify 4 types of epileptic spikes in pediatric EEG, using time- and power-based features.
Technical skills
Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaSQL
Frontend
ReactNext.jsHTMLCSS
Backend
Node.jsFastifyREST APIs
AWS
LambdaStep FunctionsEC2RDSS3API GatewayGlueQuickSightCloudWatchIAMCloudFormation
Data
SnowflakePostgreSQLSQL ServerETLSSISData pipelines
BI & testing
Qlik SenseAladdin (performance)
DevOps
DockerGitGitHubCI/CD
AI tools
Claude CodeGitHub CopilotOpenAI Codex
Certifications
AWS Cloud PractitionerAWS Solutions Architect Associate (in progress)