Alan Vasquez
Senior Software Engineer · Backend & Cloud · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Experience
Software and Documentation Engineer · DevDocs
Feb 2026 – Sep 2026 · 8 mos
Remote (US company) · Contract
Client engagements with Marqeta and Qualcomm, improving API documentation and the developer experience.
- Assessed OpenAPI coverage across Marqeta's repositories and generated specs for their internal and external endpoints, a proof of concept later adopted internally.
- Updated Marqeta's public API documentation to explain how the service and its endpoints work.
- Set up and tested Qualcomm Linux 2.0 on Qualcomm and third-party hardware ahead of its launch.
- Delivered recommendations to make community contributions to Qualcomm Linux's public GitHub repositories easier, covering repository organization, CI/CD and documentation.
- Built Qualcomm Linux images with Yocto and BitBake on AWS and gave feedback on the build process.
- Built internal tools and CI improvements with Docker and GitHub Actions, fixed issues across related repositories and designed improvements to the git-submodule monorepo.
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Cursor
- MCP
- OpenAPI
- Swagger UI
- Mintlify
- Python
- Bash
- Yocto
- BitBake
- AWS EC2
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
Robotics Software Engineer / Cloud Engineer · LucidBots Inc.
Aug 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos
Remote (US company) · Full-time
End-to-end AWS IoT architecture and onboard software for a fleet of cleaning drones, plus CI/CD, DevOps and AWS management for the company.
- Designed and implemented an end-to-end IoT architecture on AWS that streams real-time sensor data from a fleet of cleaning drones.
- Developed the onboard drone software in C++ and Python on ROS 2, running on NVIDIA Jetson devices and integrated with AWS services.
- Built the over-the-air update flow that ships the containerized onboard software to the drones in real time.
- Defined the onboard software architecture and the process behind the flights as product owner.
- Built the flight-data pipeline and its AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Terragrunt, enabling remote monitoring, anomaly detection and operational analytics.
- Built an internal UI to review a whole mission with plots and 2D maps.
- Automated builds of the robotics simulation environment with CI/CD, cutting build time from 1.5 hours to 10 minutes and letting the team test apps against simulated drones.
- Built CI/CD pipelines for projects ranging from websites to heavy Docker images, and managed DevOps and AWS within a $150K annual budget.
- Administered GitHub Enterprise, AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center, and set up access control, security and monitoring across AWS accounts.
- Prototyped YOLO and other vision models on Jetson devices to detect dirt and surfaces, and explored AI-driven mission planning.
- C++
- Python
- ROS 2
- NVIDIA Jetson
- Docker
- AWS IoT Core
- MQTT
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon S3 Tables
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- GitHub Enterprise
- CI/CD
- YOLO
Senior Software Engineer · CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd
Dec 2021 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos
Remote (Panama) · Full-time
Backend, web and Android development for a long-running platform of the government of Panama.
- Maintained and extended a long-running platform for the government of Panama, shipping features, new pages, fixes and production database updates.
- Developed backend features in Java with Spring Boot, Hibernate and JPA on Oracle, and web pages with JSF, PrimeFaces and jQuery on WebLogic.
- Implemented better error handling across the platform, making production bugs faster to find and debug for the whole team.
- Set up CI with Azure Pipelines, replacing manual builds on a developer's machine, and introduced Azure Boards and branch naming conventions.
- Rebuilt the Android field app in Java with a cleaner architecture, reducing load times and app size and adding error capture.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Hibernate
- JPA
- Oracle
- JSF
- PrimeFaces
- jQuery
- WebLogic
- Android
- Azure Pipelines
- Azure Boards
Freelance Software Developer · Fiverr
Oct 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos
Remote · Freelance
Freelance web, backend, mobile and game development for more than 100 clients.
- Delivered projects for more than 100 clients with a 5.0 rating across 144 reviews, reaching Fiverr Level 2.
- Built websites, web apps and REST APIs end to end for e-commerce and education clients, from frontend and backend to deployment.
- Rebuilt the GoldStockCanada website and store page and added a real-time view of stock prices.
- Built the image upload and product preview system for the Picturecarving e-commerce platform and optimized its server performance.
- Built CI/CD, the CMS, authentication and the payment system for Litaliano, an online Italian course and long-term client.
- Migrated client applications from DigitalOcean to AWS, improving performance and reducing downtime.
- Wrote custom JavaScript for students, including 2D and 3D animations, mini-games, algorithms and generators with Canvas, p5.js, Three.js and Babylon.js.
- Built scraping and automation tools with Python, Selenium and Playwright, desktop and mobile apps with Electron and Ionic, and a 2D game in Unity.
- React
- Angular
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Express
- NestJS
- Laravel
- Python
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Firebase
- AWS
- DigitalOcean
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Three.js
- Unity
Skills
- Languages
- Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C++, Bash
- Backend
- Node.js, NestJS, Express, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, WebLogic, Laravel, MQTT, REST APIs, Microservices
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS, AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, AWS Kinesis, AWS Firehose, AWS Athena, AWS API Gateway, AWS ECS, AWS ECR, AWS EC2, AWS RDS, AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, AWS Route 53, AWS Cognito, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Organizations, AWS Identity Center, AWS Fargate, AWS DynamoDB, AWS EventBridge, AWS SQS, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, AWS Timestream, AWS QuickSight, AWS ElastiCache, AWS EFS, AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Events, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS EC2 Image Builder, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, AWS VPC, AWS Budgets & Cost Explorer, Terraform, Terragrunt, Docker, DigitalOcean, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, CI/CD
- Robotics
- ROS 2, NVIDIA Jetson, YOLO
- Graphics & Games
- Canvas, p5.js, Processing, Three.js, Babylon.js, Unity
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Angular, JSF, PrimeFaces, jQuery, Android, Ionic, Electron
- Databases
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Firebase, Supabase, Neon
- Testing & Tools
- Jest, Selenium, Playwright, Stripe, PayPal, JWT, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket