Juan Pablo Alvis Nieto — Senior .NET Backend Developer

Achievements

97% faster

Sales quote creation

Reduced quote turnaround from 2 days to 45 minutes by implementing the web version of the configurator/quote creator.

HP Inc.

Owned end-to-end

Real-time game backend

Designed an event-driven backend on Azure Functions, Event Grid & Storage Queues using Clean Architecture, backed by 80+ unit & integration tests.

Muus Collective

Team-wide adoption

AI-assisted development

Led knowledge-sharing sessions on Claude Code & GitHub Copilot, raising team productivity and code-quality practices.

Playlist

Tech Stack

Languages & Frameworks

C# .NET Core ASP.NET Web API ASP.NET MVC

Architecture & Design

Clean Architecture SOLID Principles Microservices Domain-Driven Design Event-Driven Architecture

Data & ORM

Entity Framework / EF Core Dapper SQL Server Azure SQL Azure CosmosDB Redis

Messaging & Events

Azure Event Grid Azure Storage Queues Pub/Sub Queue-Based Messaging

Testing

Unit Tests Integration Tests xUnit NUnit MSTest Moq

Cloud & DevOps

Azure Functions App Services IoT Hub App Insights Bicep CI/CD Pipelines Docker Git GitHub

Tools & Practices

Code Reviews Mentoring Scrum Kanban OpenAPI/Swagger New Relic Jira Azure DevOps

AI Assistants

Claude Code GitHub Copilot Gemini CLI

Experience

Playlist May 2025 - Feb 2026

Software Engineer III (Remote)
- Monitored and troubleshot production systems during incidents and rollouts using New Relic, leveraging both the UI and its API to retrieve comprehensive datasets for root-cause analysis.
- Led knowledge-sharing sessions on AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to improve team productivity and code quality.
Stack: New Relic, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot.
Muus Collective Dec 2022 - May 2025

Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
- Designed and developed scalable backend services using C#, .NET, and Azure Functions following Clean Architecture and SOLID principles to support real-time video game features.
- Built event-driven systems using Azure Event Grid and Azure Storage Queues for asynchronous processing, handling high-throughput pub/sub and queue-based messaging patterns analogous to RabbitMQ workflows.
- Implemented data persistence layers with Entity Framework and SQL Server, including complex data modeling and query optimization for performance-critical game backend operations.
- Authored 80+ unit and integration tests using MSTest and Moq, executed within CI/CD pipelines to ensure business logic integrity and support test automation practices.
- Maintained and configured Azure resources through Bicep (Infrastructure as Code) and managed deployments via Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrated third-party SDKs (PlayFab) and collaborated with cross-functional teams, including frontend, DevOps, and QA, in a Scrum-based startup environment.
Stack: C#, .NET, Azure Functions, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Azure Event Grid, Azure Storage Queues, Redis, MSTest, Moq, Azure Bicep, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub Copilot.
Multiple Clients Mar 2018 - Dec 2022

Software Engineer Contractor (Remote)
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs and Azure Functions with a microservices approach, deployed to Azure through CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
- Built REST API endpoints interacting with Azure IoT Hub and Azure CosmosDB, enabling users to manage device data and retrieve alerts through the company's web portal.
- Designed an event-driven alert notification workflow using Azure Functions listening to CosmosDB change feed, processing documents, and notifying users via email and SMS.
- Implemented new features and added 100+ xUnit tests to an ASP.NET Web API, increasing the accuracy of financial calculations in a retirement process workflow.
- Troubleshot and maintained CI/CD build pipelines in Azure DevOps across multiple microservices, fixing failing tests and updating pipeline configurations.
Stack: C#, ASP.NET Web API, Azure Functions, Entity Framework, xUnit, SQL Server, Azure CosmosDB, Azure IoT Hub, Azure DevOps, Swagger, Git.
HP Inc. Nov 2014 - Jun 2017

Senior Lead Software Developer
- Application owner of 3 enterprise systems: a tax engine calculator, a configurator/quote creator, and a customer accounts management system — responsible for architecture, feature development, and stakeholder visibility.
- Implemented the web version of a configurator and quote creator, reducing the sales team's quote creation time from 2 days to 45 minutes.
- Mentored junior developers through code reviews and architecture discussions, ensuring adherence to clean coding practices and design patterns.
Stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, SQL Server, JavaScript, LINQ, WCF.

Certifications

Microsoft Azure Developer Associate

AZ-204

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

AZ-900

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

AI-900

Microsoft Writing Professional Code

DEV275x

Recommendations

Matt Cesarz

Chief Technology Officer @ Cisive

"I had the pleasure of working with Juan Pablo over the course of 18 months. He checks all the boxes — smart, talented, thorough, a great communicator, and collaborative. He played a leading role in designing and implementing some core components for our overall solution suite, and his work was always of the highest quality with on-time delivery."

Esteban Panzeri Glas

Technology Professional

"Juan Pablo is a truly unique developer. He has proven to be exceptionally reliable, creative, and hardworking. I can attest to few things in life, but having Juan Pablo on a development team is guaranteed to greatly boost productivity and quality"

Carolina Fredes

Front End Developer

"Juan Pablo is a great teammate. We were part of a small team when we worked together, and he helped the company create a better, higher-performing product by providing options and advice on how to do things more effectively."

Sebastián Soto Marín

Software Professional

"Great sense of commitment and a continuous search for self improvement."

Jaime Silva

Operational Process Management Analyst @ HP Brazil

"Juan worked on projects involving quotation tools for Brazil and made several Colombia/Brazil visits, in addition to many Skype meetings with employees in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. Juan is very effective and committed to the development of the project/work."

Guillermo Moreno

Software & Data Engineer

"Juan Pablo is a great coworker. He is a very intelligent person who constantly strives to develop solutions that satisfy user needs. He is always learning new technologies and applying them to his solutions."

Lucía Ramos

Regional Sales Partner Manager @ Trellix

"I would like to recommend Juan Pablo, who has always been characterized by his high level of responsibility and commitment. He takes on challenges and works hard until he achieves them."

Vanizia Lima

Project Manager @ HPE

"I worked with Juan Pablo at HP Brazil and I strongly recommend him. He is a high-performance professional focused on results. Teamwork and a sense of urgency complement Juan's profile."

Erika Ribon

Project Manager, PMP

"Juan is an excellent professional: committed, sensible, a good listener, and always interested in helping and finding solutions. We worked together on several projects, and he demonstrated great ease and capability in supporting Brazil and assisting us through different processes with people from different countries, whether through Skype for Business, emails, or status meetings."

Mauricio Córdoba

Director, Knowledge Engineering Services

"Juan Pablo is an excellent professional: responsible, efficient, and with exemplary seriousness and commitment. I had the opportunity and privilege to work with him on many projects, and he was key to our success."

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering

Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, Bogotá

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