luisangel parra
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Software & Computer Engineer

Build precise systems. Ship calm interfaces.

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About

Engineer focused on the seam between systems and people.

I write code that runs predictably under load and interfaces that feel inevitable — the kind that disappear once you start using them.

Backend, frontend, infra. Whichever layer the problem lives in.

00+Years shipping
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buildingthis portfolio
Make the hard parts boring.
— LP / 2026

Skills

The stack I reach for, organized by where it lives.

01 Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaC#C++SQLBashPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaC#C++SQLBash
02 Frameworks
Node.jsExpressSpring BootDjangoReactNext.jsReact NativeAstroTailwindNode.jsExpressSpring BootDjangoReactNext.jsReact NativeAstroTailwind
03 Tools
GitGitHubDockerDocker ComposePostgreSQLMySQLGitGitHubDockerDocker ComposePostgreSQLMySQL
04 Cloud / Infra
NginxCertbot / TLSCI/CDVercelNginxCertbot / TLSCI/CDVercel
05 Data / ML
scikit-learnXGBoostLightGBMPyCaretpandasNumPyscikit-learnXGBoostLightGBMPyCaretpandasNumPy

Projects

Selected work. Real systems, shipped.

SmartPass
01

01 / 052025

SmartPass

Biometric event check-in

Facial recognition replaces tickets and QR codes. Photos become 128-d vectors on arrival and are discarded; matching runs in-database with pgvector.

  • FastAPI
  • pgvector
  • OpenCV
  • Next.js
Ledger
02

02 / 052024

Ledger

Personal-finance ledger

Double-entry accounting reimagined for individuals. Type-safe end to end.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Postgres
  • tRPC
Ember
03

03 / 052024

Ember

Realtime ingestion service

High-throughput pipeline moving millions of events per minute with replay-safety.

  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • gRPC
Atlas
04

04 / 052023

Atlas

Edge-rendered map tiles

WASM-compiled vector tile renderer running at the CDN edge worldwide.

  • Rust
  • WebAssembly
  • Cloudflare
Lumen
05

05 / 052023

Lumen

AI document summarizer

Long-form research compressed into structured outlines with citations preserved.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • OpenAI
  • Vercel

Journey

How I got here. Work, study, and the stretches in between.

  1. 2026 — · Work

    Open to work

    Remote · Colombia ↔ Germany

    Recently graduated. Building small tools and this portfolio. Open to backend & full-stack roles.

  2. 2026 · Education

    B.Sc. Systems & Computational Engineering

    Universidad del Norte · Barranquilla

    Graduated. Foundations in systems, software architecture, algorithms, and data.

  3. 2025 · Work

    Backend Team Lead — MSc Project

    Hochschule Fulda · Germany

    Led a 4-person backend team on a real-case web app — owned architecture, DB models, and API contracts on a Docker-based stack.

  4. 2025 · Education

    Undergrad Thesis — ML Diabetes Screening

    Universidad del Norte

    Mobile app estimating type-2 diabetes risk (~90% on BRFSS 2023), with a full EDA surfacing dataset bias.

  5. 2025 · Work

    Software Developer

    WIQONN · Remote, Colombia

    Built a centralized news-ingestion pipeline integrating 5+ APIs — ~100k articles/week, normalized to UTC, analytics-ready.

  6. 2024 · Work

    AI Training Freelancer

    Outlier · Remote

    Reviewed and refined model outputs across dozens of AI projects. Part-time alongside studies.

  7. 2024 · Work

    DevOps Engineer (Volunteer)

    Universidad del Norte · Barranquilla

    Architected a reverse-proxy deployment platform now used dept-wide. Docker, Nginx, Bash, Certbot/TLS.

  8. 2021 · Education

    Began B.Sc. Systems & Computational Engineering

    Universidad del Norte

    Started engineering studies — systems, algorithms, and software foundations.

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