Juan Manuel Cerón
~ Juan CerónI'm a Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures. Currently building high-throughput backend services at Globant for Disney.
Previously Senior Backend Engineer at Mercado Libre, building event-driven Go systems at scale. Founder of Optima — a B2B SaaS platform I designed and built end-to-end.
I focus on solving distributed systems problems for high throughput architectures: designing fault-tolerant systems, improving observability, and optimizing cloud infrastructure for performance and reliability.
Featured Experience
view allOptima (B2B SaaS)SECOP II procurement alerts automation platform in Colombia.Earthquake RAGSeismic intelligence engine with Go pipelines and pgvector HNSW.Forge (AI Skill)Autonomous multi-agent software engineering engine.Atlas (Playbook)Universal distributed systems invariants and backend guide.Booksy (AI Reader)AI distillation engine converting technical books into cards.Raft Feature FlagsConsensus-backed distributed feature flagging in Go.LSM-Tree DBHigh-throughput time-series engine with WAL and SSTables.Disney (Globant)Go microservices & Kinesis handling 30K+ daily state updates.Mercado LibreEvent-driven Go backend processing 10K+ events daily via Pub/Sub.
Certifications & Awards
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web Services (AWS)
Google AI Professional CertificateGoogle
Claude Partner Badge – Claude CodeAnthropic
2025
MongoDB SI Architect CertificationMongoDB
2022
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)Microsoft
2021
Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate (SFPC)CertiProf
2017 – 2022
Full-Tuition Academic Scholarship (Highest GPA)Mariana University