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Samuel Barragán

Bogotá, Colombia · UTC−5

Samuel José Barragán

Full-stack developer focused on backend & systems

4 years coding, 1+ year building software for clients. Systems and Electrical Engineering student, researcher in simulation and digital twins.

// at a glance
Role
Full-stack developer · backend & systems
Based in
Bogotá, Colombia (UTC−5)
Studying
Systems Eng. (ETITC) · Electrical Eng. (UNAL)
Research
Simulation & digital twins
Languages
Spanish (native) · English (B2)
Coding
4 years · 1+ year client work

01 / Projects

Featured projects

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ResearchIn development

Agricultural Digital Twin for Strawberry

Digital twin combining field sensors, a fruit-development model and a physics-informed neural network to advise Andean strawberry growers.

  • Rust
  • Python
  • NumPy
  • SciPy
  • HDF5
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02 / Experience

Experience

  1. Sep 2026 — Oct 2026Client

    Software architect & lead developer

    ETITC

    • Built the platform that ran a two-day engineering congress end to end: check-in, public schedule, attendance and ratings from phones, and printed materials.
    • 700 registrants, 477 check-ins over 2 days and 16 participating institutions.
    • Team of 2; design and client meetings started a month and a week before the event.
  2. Mar 2026 — PresentResearch

    Researcher, system architect & technical lead

    Semillero de Simulación y Desarrollo Tecnológico

    • Designed the 7-layer architecture of an agricultural digital twin for strawberry and lead a team of 5; I develop the fruit mathematical model, the core of the system.
    • Published at ACOFI WEEF 2026, national stage at RedCOLSI 2026 and a talk at PERUMEC 2026.

    Talks & presentations · 6

    • RedCOLSI
    • ACOFI WEEF 2026
    • PERUMEC
    • 5th Engineering Congress · ETITC
    • ITSVA · México
    • REDIS · Bogotá
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  3. Feb 2026 — PresentClient

    Full-stack developer & sole technical owner

    ICCLA

    • Designed and built a web platform for managing members, volunteers and pastoral care for a church: 87 endpoints across 15 API modules and a web interface.
    • In production since April 2026, with per-module roles and backup and restore handled by the administrator.
    • Sole developer; maintaining the platform and migrating its database from SQLite to PostgreSQL.

03 / Stack

Technologies

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Languages

Daily
JavaTypeScript / JavaScript
Comfortable
GoKotlinLua

Backend

Daily
Node.jsExpress
Comfortable
Spring BootREST APIsZod

Frontend

Daily
ReactVite
Comfortable
AngularAstro

Data & ML

Daily
PandasMatplotlib
Comfortable
PolarsSeabornscikit-learnMediaPipeEMSO

Databases

Daily
PostgreSQL
Comfortable
MySQLSQLiteMongoDBSupabase
Learning
Vector databases

DevOps & Infra

Daily
LinuxGit
Comfortable
DockerPodmanRailway
Learning
KubernetesServer hardening & backups

Embedded

Comfortable
MicroPythonArduino

04 / Education

Education

Graduating · 2026

Technology in Software Development

ETITC — Escuela Tecnológica Instituto Técnico Central

Bogotá · Tecnólogo degree

In progress

Systems Engineering

ETITC — Escuela Tecnológica Instituto Técnico Central

Bogotá

In progress

Electrical Engineering

Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)

Bogotá

Completed

Certificate: Digital Twins & AI Applied to Industry

Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)

4 credits · Modules taught by faculty from China and Brazil

Languages — Spanish (native) · English (B2)

05 / Contact

Get in touch

Based in Bogotá (UTC−5). Working in English and Spanish.