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Sergio Yodeb Velasquez Yepes

Engineering Manager at Checkout.com

Sergio Yodeb Velasquez Yepes has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and companies. Starting in 2015, they co-founded and served as CEO of Polyglot SAS, where they managed a team of 15 employees and handled responsibilities such as hiring, client acquisition, and product management. In this role, they developed applications for clients in the education, health, and fintech sectors.

In 2016, Sergio worked as an Engineer Intern at IBM, specifically in the Global Technology Services, Infrastructure Services, Middleware & SOA Administration division. Here, they focused on automation projects to improve the administration of middleware services, resulting in a reduction of 130 hours of administration time per month.

Sergio also has teaching experience at Universidad de los Andes - Colombia. Sergio Yodeb worked as an Adjunct Professor, teaching undergrad students about design, architecture, and implementation in engineering projects related to mobile and web platforms. Sergio Yodeb developed instructional material and guides to help students understand concepts about programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Swift, and Dart. Additionally, Sergio served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Teacher Assistant for various courses related to software development and mobile app development.

Furthermore, Sergio has experience in the tech industry. Sergio Yodeb worked at Twilio as a Senior Software Engineer, leading the design and development of strong identity solutions for service-to-service authentication and authorization. Sergio Yodeb also worked on Twilio's service mesh using Envoy and other in-house tools for service discovery and configuration.

Most recently, Sergio joined Checkout.com as an Engineering Manager starting in 2023.

Overall, Sergio Yodeb Velasquez Yepes has a strong background in software engineering, leadership, teaching, and entrepreneurship, with experience in companies like Polyglot SAS, IBM, Twilio, and Checkout.com.

Sergio Yodeb Velasquez Yepes obtained a Master's degree in Software Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes, which they pursued from 2018 to 2020. Prior to that, they completed their undergraduate studies at the same university, earning a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Systems and Computing Engineering from 2013 to 2018. Before entering university, Sergio obtained their high school diploma from Instituto Alberto Merani between 2004 and 2012.

In addition to their formal education, Sergio holds a certification in EFSET 73 Proficient (CEFR C2) from EF Education First, although specific details about its date of completion are not available.

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