Melvin Juárez

Melvin Juárez

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Software Developer
Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala
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  • InTune Analytics
    Backend Engineer
    InTune Analytics
    Aug 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)
    • Own and evolve a serverless backend on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3), integrating multiple third-party services and internal APIs. • Led migration of critical Lambda functions to always-on containerized services, improving reliability and reducing cold-start latency. • Lead technical planning and feature breakdown, coordinating delivery with cross-functional stakeholders from definition to deployment. • Built AI-powered internal tooling using Claude agents to automate planning workflows, cutting overhead on recurring operational tasks — an early adopter of AI-assisted engineering practices. • Act as on-call technical reference for production incidents, triaging and resolving infrastructure issues end-to-end.
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    Backend Engineer II
    SoyFri SA
    Jan 2023 - Apr 2026 (3 years 4 months)
    • Engineered and maintained Go microservices on AWS ECS/ECR for an electronic wallet platform processing thousands of daily transactions. • Drove architecture decisions on service decomposition, scalability strategy, and cross-service data synchronization as primary technical reference for the team. • Defined and enforced coding standards, Go idioms, and code review cycles, standardizing development practices across the team. • Introduced unit testing on critical payment flows, reducing production incidents and increasing release confidence. • Normalized relational database schemas, eliminating redundancy and improving query reliability on core transactional data.
  • Seguros G&T
    Software Architect
    Seguros G&T
    May 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 8 months)
    • Led backend architecture for a team of 4 engineers, establishing coding standards and design patterns that reduced technical debt. • Implemented Kafka-based event queues to decouple background processes, eliminating recurring failures and enabling reliable automatic retries. • Deployed and managed Kubernetes infrastructure across dev, staging, and production environments, including canary deployment strategies. • Redesigned microservice APIs using SOLID principles and DDD, reducing inter-service coupling and improving long-term maintainability. • Introduced Liquibase into CI/CD, providing full version control and auditability of database schema changes.
  • Seguros G&T
    Senior Software Engineer
    Seguros G&T
    May 2020 - Apr 2021 (1 year)
    • Designed and built a high-volume insurance policy issuance service capable of processing thousands of records in batch. • Executed database migrations via ETL pipelines (Pentaho DI), ensuring zero data loss across Oracle and MySQL environments. • Refactored legacy stored procedures, reducing average query execution time and lowering maintenance complexity.
  • CARI.net
    Software Developer
    CARI.net
    May 2017 - Apr 2020 (3 years)
    • Developed and maintained colplex.com, a multi-tenant SaaS platform serving multiple educational institutions simultaneously. • Built a financial module integrating the platform with national banking institutions via SOAP and REST APIs — handling billing, reconciliation, and payment experience. • Designed Python ETL scripts to normalize Excel-based financial reports, exposing the transformation logic as a REST API consumed by the frontend.
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  • U
    B.S. in Software Engineering
    Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala
    Jan 2014 - Jan 2020 (6 years 1 month)