Santiago Torres Aragon

Santiago Torres Aragon

Entrepreneur - Senior Software Engineer

email

contact@santiagotorres.me

location

Bogotá, Colombia

About me

Senior Software Engineer with 4 years of experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems across diverse industries. Proven expertise in real-time data processing pipelines, building pub/sub messaging architectures for ad targeting and client matching platforms, and developing production-grade monitoring systems for industrial IoT applications. Strong background in full-stack development with modern frontend frameworks, cloud-native architecture using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, and both SQL and NoSQL database design. Demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact solutions for data-intensive applications including survey platforms, ad campaign engines, and oil field monitoring systems.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

EPAM systems

March 2025
  • Architecting and developing real-time data processing services using pub/sub architecture to ingest and transform operational data from Cognite CDF platform for oil & gas operations. Building Python-based microservices that process time-series data from oil wells and related infrastructure, generating actionable insights delivered through interactive map visualizations and analytical dashboards.
  • Implementing comprehensive observability infrastructure including distributed tracing and metrics collection to ensure system reliability and performance monitoring at scale.
  • Key Technologies: Python, Pub/Sub Architecture, Cognite CDF, Real-time Data Processing, OpenTelemetry (Traces & Metrics), Microservices, SQL databases

Software Engineer

Dynata

November 2022 - September 2025
  • Architected and developed high-throughput microservices infrastructure in Rust to orchestrate multi-source data ingestion from S3 buckets, RabbitMQ queues, and AWS SNS/SQS for large-scale market research operations. Built intelligent matching engine to align client profiles with targeted advertising campaigns and survey requirements, processing millions of data points to optimize audience targeting and campaign effectiveness.
  • Designed and implemented partner portal enabling real-time visibility into survey completion metrics, client analytics, and automated monthly reporting.
  • Established comprehensive observability framework across distributed services to ensure system reliability and performance monitoring.
  • Key Technologies: Rust, Python, TypeScript, AWS (DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, ECS, S3), PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Microservices Architecture, Distributed Tracing & Telemetry

Senior Software Engineer

Mercado libre

October 2024 - November 2024
  • Contributed to the development of large-scale big data pipelines to process and categorize transactional sales data, enabling optimized advertising campaign performance across multiple social media platforms. Built data transformation workflows that powered targeted ad strategies by extracting actionable insights from business sales patterns and customer behavior.
  • Designed and implemented event-driven systems to identify and engage customers based on real-time spending behavior analysis on the Mercado Libre platform. Developed behavioral segmentation logic to trigger personalized marketing events, improving customer targeting precision and campaign conversion rates.

Software Engineer

TechGenies

July 2023 - October 2023
  • Development of an e-commerce platform for clients who are looking to start their merchandise business; the project is developed in typescript react for the admin portal, dart flutter for the mobile application and python Django to manage the whole backend. The project architecture is a monolith.
  • development of a payment assessment tool in order to optimize cost projection in clients business. The web app is developed in Typescript React, and the backend is developed in Php Laravel

Full stack developer

Casurid

June 2022 - August 2022
  • Development of learning management systems (LMS) relying on nodeJS, VueJS and moodle. Migration and management of premises servers and databases to AWS. Integration of new services for the company's evolution.