Federico Melo Barrero
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Software Engineer @ Canals AI
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
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Software EngineerCanals AIDec 2024 - Current (1 year 7 months)Software Engineer on the parsing team.- TA, Vector CalculusUniversity of the AndesJun 2024 - Jul 2024 (2 months)Undergraduate teaching assistant for Vector Calculus under Prof. Jacinto Puig, Ph.D. • Designed, corrected, and graded vector calculus problem sets. • Held weekly office hours to assist students with course material and address questions. • Organized comprehensive pre-exam review sessions, emphasizing clarity on key concepts.
- Full Stack Developer, Vice Dean's Office of Student AffairsUniversity of the AndesFeb 2024 - Dec 2024 (11 months)Extended and maintained No Estás Solo, a web app serving 15,000+ students and 600+ faculty and staff at the University of the Andes, under Prof. Marcela Hernández Hoyos, Ph.D. Designed and implemented the Student Profile from scratch—a suite of interactive dashboards displaying comprehensive academic, social, and financial information for students at all academic levels (undergraduate, specialization, master’s, doctoral)—which ultimately became my undergraduate thesis. • Co-implemented the ETL process (initially in Pandas, later migrated to Polars) to retrieve data from Azure Blob Storage, structure it, and store it in a relational database. • Designed and implemented a REST API service using FastAPI to expose student data as resources. •
- Software Developer ICasewareJan 2024 - Jul 2024 (7 months)Software Developer Co-op at the Notebook Ninjas squad on the Data Analytics team. • Recognized as part of the Data Analytics team with the June Team Award 🎉 for delivering impactful contributions and hard work. • Contributed to developing Python Jupyter notebooks and Java microservices for financial and auditing-related data analysis. • Addressed bugs and implemented optimizations in Java and TypeScript services. • Leveraged AWS S3 Buckets and DynamoDB for robust data storage and configuration management. • Engaged in the full software development lifecycle, including collaborating on SPIKEs and RFCs, managing Jira tickets, and participating in the implementation, testing, and review of pull requests.
- Back-end Developer, Research Center of the Faculty of EngineeringUniversity of the AndesAug 2023 - Dec 2023 (5 months)Joined the software development team of the Engineering Dean's Office, led by Prof. José Bocanegra, Ph.D., as a backend developer, contributing significantly to the development of the Professors' Portfolio project, a web application designed to streamline the management of academic and administrative information for professors and faculty members. • Engaged in the design and documentation phases of the project's back end. • Partially implemented the persistence, logic, and control layers of the back end, leveraging Java and the Spring framework. • Devised an efficient method for migrating large volumes of unstructured data into relational databases, utilizing Oracle SQL Developer.
- Undergraduate Research Assistant, CupiTallerUniversity of the AndesAug 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 5 months)Collaborated in a 7-person team under Prof. Eduardo Rosales, Ph.D., to manage CupiTaller—the university's programming support center: • Designed and co-built CupiHorarios, a scheduling web app (FastAPI, React.js) using Pyomo to generate optimal schedules for the 7-person team to have full coverage of the help center's operational hours. • Led the design, development, and maintenance of CupiFeedback, a performance feedback web app (FastAPI, React.js) for tutors based on student surveys. • Collaborated in the design and development of CupiMonitores, a web app (NestJS, Next.js) for university-wide TA grading and management. • Conducted tutor candidate interviews. • Created programming problem sets and automated solution verification for Senec
- Tutor, CupiTallerUniversidad de los AndesFeb 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)Role as a Python Tutor at CupiTaller, the University of the Andes' programming support center designed for students in their first or second programming course. • Conducted daily tutoring sessions. • Assisted more than 100 students in honing fundamental Python coding skills.
- TA, Introduction to ProgrammingUniversidad de los AndesFeb 2021 - Jun 2021 (5 months)Undergraduate teaching assistant for Introduction to Programming under Professor Diego Salinas. • Provided support to the professor during programming teaching laboratories, assisting ~40 students. • Corrected and graded basic programming projects.
- TA, Differential CalculusUniversidad de los AndesJan 2021 - May 2021 (5 months)Undergraduate teaching assistant for Differential Calculus under Professor Alexander Murcia, Ph.D. • Corrected and graded differential calculus worksheets and assessments. • Conducted weekly personalized office hours to clarify key concepts for students.
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- Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Systems and Computing EngineeringUniversidad de los AndesAug 2020 - Dec 2024 (4 years 5 months)
- High School DiplomaColegio San Carlos
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- Ramón de Zubiría Award, 2024University of the AndesNov 2024Honored with the Ramón de Zubiría Award ("Distinción Ramón de Zubiría") for academic excellence at the University of the Andes, awarded annually to the top undergraduate student with the highest cumulative GPA in their program, with a cumulative GPA of 4.91 / 5.00 in Systems and Computing Engineering.
- Semester Excellence Award, 2023-10University of the AndesNov 2023Recipient of the Semester Excellence Award ("Distinción de Excelencia Semestral") for achieving the highest semester GPA in the Systems and Computing Engineering undergraduate program during the first semester of 2023 at the University of the Andes, with a semester GPA of 4.97 / 5.00.
- Ramón de Zubiría Award, 2023University of the AndesNov 2023Honored with the Ramón de Zubiría Award ("Distinción Ramón de Zubiría") for academic excellence at the University of the Andes, awarded annually to the top undergraduate student with the highest cumulative GPA in their program, with a cumulative GPA of 4.90 / 5.00 in Systems and Computing Engineering.
- Semester Excellence Award, 2021-10University of the AndesNov 2021Recipient of the Semester Excellence Award ("Distinción de Excelencia Semestral") for achieving the highest semester GPA in the Physics undergraduate program during the first semester of 2021 at the University of the Andes, with a semester GPA of 4.86 / 5.00.
- Semester Excellence Award, 2020-20University of the AndesJun 2021Recipient of the Semester Excellence Award ("Distinción de Excelencia Semestral") for achieving the highest semester GPA in the Physics undergraduate program during the second semester of 2020 at the University of the Andes, with a semester GPA of 4.90 / 5.00.