Arnold Blandon Palacios
Bogota, Colombia0
Senior backend engineer with 9+ years building distributed systems and financial platforms in Python, now combining payments expertise with production AI engineering.
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Agentic Conversational Platform
AI-driven conversational platform backend
Built backend capabilities using agents, reusable skills and tools for complex multi-step workflows. Combined deterministic business logic with probabilistic LLM reasoning, structured outputs and conversational context for reliable production interactions.
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Multiple Sclerosis Day by Day
iPhone companion for MS patients
Treatment calendar, heat alerts from local weather, and moderated community. Features QR reader that extracts restaurant menus from HTML, PDFs and images without AI and falls back to reading the page on the phone itself.
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Survive Trading
Survival roguelike teaching trading discipline
One-month, $1,000 run that punishes leverage, built as an offline PWA replaying real market episodes (COVID, GameStop, LUNA) with deterministic 1v1 bot duels.
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Squad Lead / Senior Python Developer
Tangelo LatamNov 2020 — Present · Bogota, Colombia
Lead backend engineering for payment and credit-line systems, owning payment processing, disbursements, reconciliation and credit lifecycle flows. Design resilient, high-volume financial services around idempotency, consistency, observability and failure recovery while leading architecture decisions.
Software Developer
MesfixSep 2017 — Nov 2020 · Bogota, Colombia
Automated payment operations and manual financial workflows using Python, Selenium and web scraping, while developing backend services and internal tools for financial operations.
Education
Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
Systems Engineer
Sep 2010 — Jun 2015
UNIR
Machine Learning Specialization
Jan 2024 — Present
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Skills
PythonFastAPIPayment SystemsCredit SystemsDistributed SystemsAI AgentsLLM OrchestrationMCP / Tool UseAWSAzureSQLMongoDBAI EngineeringAgentic WorkflowsStructured OutputsContext Management