Jorge Ramiro Alarcón Vargas

AI Data Engineer - Full Stack Devops

Since 2018 Jorge Alarcón is a Full Stack DevOps and Data Engineer with +7 years of professional experience in Software Development and Data Engineering. He began his career as a Civil Engineer in Peru and Brazil, focusing on process automation, before transitioning into technology.

Specialized in Linux, Python, and Rust, he has hands-on expertise in developing CI/CD pipelines, data pipelines, data processing, event-driven, and API architectures using Test-Driven Development (TDD) and clean architecture to ensure efficiency and reliability. His experience includes deploying and orchestrating cloud services on AWS (ECS, EKS) with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for scalable and secure environments.

+51 973635864 jorgeav527@gmail.com github.com/jorgeav527 linkedin.com/in/jorgeav527 docs.cordstart.com

work experience Software Engineer

Full Stack DevOps

Roadr

Feb 2023 - June 2025 (2 yr 6 mos) Los Angeles, California, United States Remote, Full-time
  • Worked with diverse tech stacks across backend, frontend with SQL/NoSQL databases.
  • Containerized frameworks with Docker and coordinated incident response for container issues.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for deploying applications for staging and production environments.
  • Implemented and deployed REST APIs, gRPC, WebSockets, GraphQL, and event-driven architectures.
  • Identified a memory leak and performance bottleneck through infrastructure monitoring.
  • Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 20% through migrating Kubernetes workloads to ECS on AWS.
Tools: Python (FastAPI, Airflow), Rust (Actix Web), Go (Fiber, Echo), JavaScript (Express, React), Docker (DockerHub), AWS (ECS, Load Balancer, Route 53, CloudFront, S3, ASG, CloudMap, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), Redis (Pub/Sub), Kafka, Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus)

Data Engineer

Roadr

Feb 2023 - June 2025 (2 yr 6 mos) Los Angeles, California, United States Remote, Full-time
  • Developed and deployed a scalable FastAPI and Echo backend with Clean Architecture, TDD, seamlessly integrated with services like Redis, GraphQL, and WebSockets.
  • Designed ETL pipelines to centralize multi-source data and support event-driven analytics and reporting.
  • Used PySpark on AWS EMR to transform and optimize raw data before loading into Redshift.
  • Implemented a conversational bot (Maia) backend using FastAPI with OpenAI API.
  • Migrated from MongoDB to PostgreSQL and transitioned dashboards to Grafana for cost-efficient real-time reporting.
Tools: Python (FastAPI, Airflow, Pyspark), Golang (Echo), Docker, AWS (Lambda, EMR, S3, Redshift, Sep Functions), Warehousing (Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Cassandra), SQL (PostgreSQL), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), NoSQL (MongoDB), Event Streaming (Redis Pub/Sub, Kafka), Grafana

Python Instructor - Data Science and API Development

Cibertec

Oct 2023 - Present (2 yr) Lima, Peru Remote, Part-time
  • Offered guidance and mentorship to students in data science fundamentals and REST API development.
  • Evaluate student performance through assignments, quizzes, exams, and projects.
  • Provide constructive feedback to help students improve their skills with Python.
Tools: Python (FastAPI, Flask, Pandas, NumPy, Jupyter notebook), Bash, SQL (SQLite3), NoSQL (MongoDB), WebSockets

Full Stack Developer - Civil Engineering Soils Lab

Grupo RPG SAC

Jul 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 yr 6 mos) Tiabaya, Arequipa, Perú Full-time
  • Designed, developed, and deployed a web tool that met laboratory requirements.
  • Built a modern Dockerized Django web application ready for production on AWS servers.
  • Developed a module for customer registration, test quotations, service orders, and settlement sheets.
  • Developed automated internal dashboards and PDF reports providing accurate metrics and insights.
Tools: CI/CD, Python (Django), HTMX, SQL (PostgreSQL), Docker, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

Full Stack Developer - Civil Engineering EPIC Lab

UCSM - EPIC Labs

Dec 2019 - Jan 2021 (1 yr 2 mos) Yanahuara, Arequipa, Perú Full-time
  • Designed, developed, and deployed a web application pilot web tool that met laboratory requirements.
  • Performed data modeling and schema design to define database structure and relationships.
  • Implemented a planning process flow for students, researchers, and clients using a SaaS-style architecture.
Tools: Python (Django), HTML, CSS (Bootstrap), SQL (PostgreSQL), PythonAnywhere

education

Universidad Católica de Santa María

Civil Engineer

2008 - 2014 Arequipa - Perú CIP: 257513

languages

Spanish: Native Portuguese: Advanced C2 English: Advanced C1