Andrés Felipe Zapata

Profile

Full-stack software engineer with 10+ years of experience building platforms that serve 700,000+ users across Colombia and Latin America. Core stack: Java (Spring Boot, Quarkus) and Node.js / TypeScript (NestJS) on the backend; Angular, React and Vue on the frontend; Next.js for full-stack applications; deployed on AWS and Kubernetes. I design microservice, integration and Kafka event-streaming architectures, and I lead engineering teams in payments, transportation, logistics and banking.

• 10+ years building software
• 700k+ users served
• −98% latency
• −40% time to market
• 200+ people led

Experience

1. Jun 2026 – Present5 mo

   Senior Red Hat Integration Engineer

   Avianca · Contractor · Airline / Payments

   Integrating the airline's payments core with Latin American payment gateways and methods on the Red Hat stack.

   • Integrate Avianca’s payments core with Latin American payment gateways and methods such as DEUNA and Wompi.
   • Design the integration architecture on the Red Hat stack, using Quarkus and Apache Camel to connect the core with each payment provider.

   Quarkus · Apache Camel · Red Hat · Kafka · DEUNA · Wompi

2. Mar 2024 – Present2 yr 8 mo

   Technical Lead

   Quind · Flypass, electronic toll & parking payments · FinTech / Transportation

   Microservice and data-streaming architecture for a payments and mobility platform; leading three product workstreams.

   • Design microservice and data-streaming architecture for the payments and mobility platform (Spring Boot, Kafka, CQRS, AWS).
   • Lead the e-invoicing, customer service centers and memberships workstreams: solution design, ADRs, code reviews and quality gates (JaCoCo, SonarQube).
   • Drive the migration of legacy components to Quarkus + GraalVM, Java 21 and Virtual Threads.
   • Led a Developer Experience initiative (Backstage, AWS Service Catalog, archetypes) that cut time-to-market by 40%.

   Spring Boot · Kafka · CQRS · AWS · Quarkus · GraalVM · Java 21 · Backstage · SonarQube

3. Jul 2020 – Present6 yr 4 mo

   Software Architect & Developer

   Independent Contractor · Freight transportation, logistics, banking

   RNDC integrations for shippers and carriers, an event-driven freight dispatch lifecycle and legacy modernization without big-bang rewrites.

   • RNDC integration (Colombian Ministry of Transport) for shippers and carriers such as Grupo Nutresa and Rápido Ochoa: consignment notes, electronic cargo manifests and proof-of-delivery records, with upfront data validation and full traceability of every submission.
   • Event-driven architecture for the freight dispatch lifecycle (order, consignment note, manifest, proof of delivery) and freight payment reconciliation.
   • Modernized legacy Oracle/Java systems with the Strangler Fig pattern and CDC (Debezium + Confluent); migrated LDAP to Keycloak / OAuth2.
   • Tuned Kafka clusters (partitioning, replication, compression) and set up disaster recovery with MirrorMaker 2; observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana.

   Kafka · Debezium · Confluent · Keycloak · OAuth2 · MirrorMaker 2 · OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Grafana · Oracle · Java

4. Dec 2025 – Jun 20267 mo

   Full Stack Developer & Tech Lead

   Fiscalía General de la Nación · Contractor · Public sector (Colombian Attorney General's Office)

   Designed and built three core systems for Colombia's Attorney General's Office.

   • Designed and built three core systems: Extradition & Capture, Victim & Witness Protection and Private Prosecution.
   • Full stack development with Node.js / TypeScript (NestJS), React and Oracle PL/SQL; deployed to OpenShift through GitHub Actions pipelines.

   Node.js · TypeScript · NestJS · React · Oracle PL/SQL · OpenShift · GitHub Actions

5. Oct 2025 – Jan 20264 mo

   Senior Integration Developer

   Celsia · Contractor · Energy utility

   Led the migration of the integration bus from IBM App Connect to on-premise Kubernetes using Quarkus, Apache Camel and Kafka.

   • Led the migration of the integration bus from IBM App Connect to on-premise Kubernetes using Quarkus, Apache Camel and Kafka.
   • Designed and documented the migration strategy for mission-critical power distribution metering systems.
   • Implemented end-to-end observability with Grafana, Loki and Tempo.

   Quarkus · Apache Camel · Kafka · Kubernetes · Grafana · Loki · Tempo

6. Jul 2023 – Mar 20249 mo

   Senior Software Developer

   OLJ Solutions · Projects IP/REV and RUNT · Transportation

   Full-stack services for the National Transit Registry and the nationwide electronic toll interoperability platform.

   • Full stack development of RUNT (National Transit Registry) services with Java, Node.js, Spring WebFlux, Quarkus, Kafka, Angular and React on AWS (Lambda, Docker).
   • Built IP/REV for the Ministry of Transport: interoperability between toll operators and TAG providers for nationwide electronic toll collection.
   • Designed reactive, event-driven architecture for distributed microservices; applied TDD and code reviews.

   Java · Node.js · Spring WebFlux · Quarkus · Kafka · Angular · React · AWS Lambda · Docker

7. Feb 2021 – Jul 20232 yr 6 mo

   Technical Lead · Software Engineer

   INDRA Colombia · Banco de la República (central bank) · Banking

   Led two teams building Java microservices for Colombia's central bank, cutting latency by 98% in mission-critical services.

   • Led two teams of four developers building Java 8-17 microservices (Spring Cloud, GCP Pub/Sub, Apigee, AWS, DynamoDB).
   • Cut latency by 98% (5 s to 100 ms at 10,000 req/s) in mission-critical microservices using WebFlux, Redis and MongoDB.
   • Resolved transactional integrity issues by enforcing ACID guarantees, improving data consistency by 90%; launched a Coding Dojo (Jenkins, SonarQube, Kafka).

   Java 8-17 · Spring Cloud · WebFlux · Redis · MongoDB · GCP Pub/Sub · Apigee · AWS · DynamoDB · Jenkins · SonarQube

8. Jan 2017 – Jan 20214 yr 1 mo

   From service desks to software development

   Early career · Telecommunications, security, retail

   Four roles that went from an ITIL-based service desk to ETL pipelines for telecom Big Data.

   • Emtelco (Tigo-Une), Software Developer, 2020 – 2021. ETL/ELT pipelines for telecom Big Data (Java, C#, PL/SQL).
   • Estatal de Seguridad, IT Technician, 2019 – 2020. Database optimization and application support.
   • iKono Telecomunicaciones, Freelance Developer, 2018 – 2019. Odoo ERP/POS implementation (invoicing and inventory).
   • Atento, IT Support Technician, 2017. ITIL-based service desk for B2B clients.

   Java · C# · PL/SQL · Odoo · ITIL

Key achievements

• Electronic toll collection interoperability IP/REV: Member of the team that built IP/REV (Electronic Vehicle Toll Collection Interoperability) for Colombia's Ministry of Transport, on an event-driven, highly concurrent, high-throughput transaction architecture.
• RNDC integration: Integrated shippers and carriers such as Grupo Nutresa and Rápido Ochoa with the RNDC (National Cargo Dispatch Registry): consignment notes, electronic cargo manifests and proof-of-delivery records.
• Latency in mission-critical microservices −98%: From 5 s to 100 ms at 10,000 req/s in mission-critical microservices at Banco de la República (Colombia's central bank) using WebFlux, Redis and MongoDB.
• Time-to-market −40%: With a Developer Experience platform (Backstage, AWS Service Catalog, service archetypes) presented to the C-suite.

Tech stack

Languages

Java · Kotlin · TypeScript · JavaScript · Go

Backend

Spring Boot · WebFlux · Quarkus · Apache Camel · Vert.x · Node.js · NestJS

Frontend

Angular · React · Vue · Next.js

Data & events

Kafka (Confluent) · Debezium · GCP Pub/Sub · PostgreSQL · Oracle · MongoDB · Redis · DynamoDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWS · GCP · Azure · OpenShift · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Keycloak · Kong

Observability

OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · Tempo

Quality

JUnit · Testcontainers · Cypress · k6 · Gatling · Chaos engineering · SonarQube

Architecture

Microservices · Event-driven · CQRS · Hexagonal · DDD · Serverless · ADRs

AI engineering

Claude Code · Anthropic API · OpenAI API · LangChain · MCP · Hugging Face