Javier Riveros

Hi! I'm Javier Riveros.

Software Engineer from Colombia 🇨🇴

I solve complex problems through technology. With 4+ years of experience, I've built systems that scale, led technical initiatives, and helped teams grow through mentorship.

Always curious about new technologies and passionate about creating solutions that make a difference in people's lives.

Work experience

Feb 2024 • Present

Product Engineer

Moved to a more product-oriented role, focusing on building features that help the company achieve its goals.
Reduced operational costs by 66% through spearheading the development and implementation of an AI-powered chatbot, streamlining candidate acquisition processes, and automating routine inquiries.
Developed multiple features that contributed to the company's growth, such as a new onboarding flow for talent seekers, multiple analytics dashboards internally and externally.

Torre.ai•Scala • Play! Framework • LangChain • LLMs • Slick • RabbitMQ • Vue.js • Nuxt.js • MySQL • Metabase • AWS • Jest • TypeScript

Jun 2021 • Feb 2024

Software Engineer

Improved product performance across frontend and backend systems by 30%, enhancing user satisfaction and system reliability through optimization of code architecture and implementation of efficient algorithms.
Coached and mentored junior team members to enhance their technical skills and foster a collaborative team environment, resulting in a 15% increase in project efficiency and on-time delivery rates.

Torre.ai•Scala • Play! Framework • Slick • Vue.js • Nuxt.js • RabbitMQ • MySQL • Metabase • AWS • Jest • TypeScript • Python • Django • Flutter

Feb 2021 • Jun 2021

Software Engineer Intern

Developed and implemented new frontend features using Vue.js and Nuxt.js, improving user experience and interface functionality
Fixed critical bugs in the frontend codebase, enhancing application stability and performance
Collaborated with the design and platform team to implement responsive UI components and ensure consistent user experience

Torre.ai•Vue.js • Nuxt.js • JavaScript • TypeScript • HTML/CSS

May 2020 • Nov 2020

Software Engineer Intern

Made a seamless migration initiative, successfully transitioning the system from Python 2.7 to Python 3 and upgrading from Django 1.11 to Django 2.
Attained 70% code coverage across repositories by implementing comprehensive unit and integration tests with pytest, improving system stability.
Provided instrumental support for Django and Python components migration for the European Southern Observatory, ensuring continuous operation of mission-critical systems.
Collaborated with senior engineers to implement best practices in code organization and documentation.

Enciso Systems•Python • Django • pytest • GitHub • Jenkins

Some of the projects I've worked on

News data analysis

April 2025 - Present

Analysis of news data to extract insights and apply different NLP techniques.

Personal Project•Python, Redis, Scrapy, Metabase, PostgreSQL

Co-implemented a distributed web scraping tool to extract news data from different sources (extracting around 1M news articles).
Performed data cleaning and preprocessing to prepare the data for analysis.
Built a dashboard to visualize the data and extract insights using Metabase.

Cives.co - Campaign Management SaaS

June 2024 - Present

Scalable SaaS platform to power large-scale political and marketing campaigns

Personal Project•Django, Bootstrap, Vue.js, Redis, Celery, PostgreSQL

Collaboratively architected and built a scalable SaaS platform using a multi-tenant approach
Implemented massive messaging capabilities across email, WhatsApp, calls, and SMS using different providers
Engineered a fail-proof message delivery system with automatic retries and error handling

About my education

Academic Training

Academic training, degrees of study and institutions I attended

Systems Engineer

Universidad de los Llanos

Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia2015 - 2022

Artificial Intelligence Expert Certificate - CAIEC®

Talento Tech Bogotá - MinTIC - Certiprof

Bogotá, Colombia2025

Online courses

Finished courses in online education platforms

Advanced React.js Course

Platzi2025

Chatbots development with OpenAI

Platzi2024

Google AI Essentials

Coursera2025

Developing Interpersonal Skills

IBM2024

Additional Information

Tech skills, languages, and interests

Fluent in English and Spanish

Languages

Running, Cycling, Photography, Side projects

Interests