Cúcuta, Colombia · Backend engineering

Hi, I’m Esteban.

Java backend engineer building and operating correctness-sensitive, data-heavy systems with Spring Boot, MySQL, REST APIs, and Keycloak.

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About

I have nearly three years of experience building and operating production software, including a Student Information System used by nine institutions in Colombia. My work spans historical-data modeling, identity consistency, transactional workflows, reporting, production diagnosis, deployments, and technical coordination.

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Focus

  • Java 17
  • Spring Boot
  • REST APIs
  • JPA / Hibernate
  • MySQL & SQL
  • Flyway
  • Keycloak
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Grafana & Loki
  • Next.js & React
  • TypeScript

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Experience

Plumii (formerly Euler)

Software Engineer · Independent Contractor

Remote, Colombia
Sep 2023 - Present

Build Java 17 and Spring Boot services for a production Student Information System covering enrollment, grades, identity, reporting, and administration.

  • Introduced historical and time-scoped data models, migrated legacy relationships, and corrected records that produced inaccurate certificates and enrollment states.
  • Improved identity reliability with Keycloak provisioning retries, account reconciliation, and deterministic identity matching.
  • Reworked evaluation-assignment generation using bulk retrieval, deduplication, batching, indexes, and transactional safeguards to eliminate N+1-style access patterns.
  • Diagnose production incidents across logs, database state, request flows, code, and deployed configuration; deliver releases through Jenkins.
  • Assign tasks, review pull requests, and guide delivery for up to three junior developers.

Instituto Departamental de Salud (IDS)

Full-Stack Developer Intern

Cúcuta, Colombia
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025

Owned the lifecycle of an institutional document-management platform from requirements and relational modeling through implementation, deployment, and support.

  • Built the application with Laravel and MySQL, including administrator provisioning, RBAC, departmental access, uploads, and document version history.
  • Configured Apache as a reverse proxy in a legacy PHP/MySQL environment; the application remains in use and received follow-up support in 2026.

Universidad Libre

Sole Software Developer · University Thesis Project

Cúcuta, Colombia
2024 - 2025

Owned requirements, architecture, documentation, data modeling, backend, frontend, auditing, surveys, reports, and testing for a production university system.

  • Built the system with Laravel, Next.js, and MySQL, with RBAC and auditing.
  • Dockerized and deployed it to university-owned physical servers, moved MySQL to the host, and introduced backups after identifying container-volume data-loss risk.

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Education

Universidad Libre

Information and Communications Technology Engineering

Cúcuta, Colombia · 2025

Certifications

  • Meta Back-End Developer Professional Certificate
  • Spring Framework · LearnQuest / Coursera
  • Database Design · Oracle Academy

Languages

  • Spanish · Native
  • English · B2 upper-intermediate

Let’s connect

Let’s build software that stays correct when the real world gets complicated.

estebana.murciaa@gmail.com · +57 310 778 4403