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Jorge Ulises Useche Cuellar

Jorge Ulises Useche Cuellar

Jorge Ulises Useche Cuellar

Technology Leader | Digital Transformation Director | Staff Software Engineer

Linux Group

Clojure Colombia

Hello! I’m Jorge Ulises Useche Cuellar — Technology Leader and Enterprise Architect based in Bogotá, Colombia.

I am a seasoned Technology Executive with 15 years of experience bridging the gap between complex technical execution and high-level business strategy. My expertise spans Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, and designing resilient, global-scale platforms, demonstrated in high-growth FinTech environments at PayJoy, Nubank, and Banco de Bogotá.

As Head of Digital Development at Banco de Bogotá, I led a development organization of over 130 people and drove the enterprise agile transformation, improving the Developer Experience NPS from 49 to 86.

At Nubank and in my Staff Engineering roles, I architect mission-critical platforms (from core banking integrations to global identity systems) using distributed microservices, Kafka, and resilient design patterns to ensure maximum stability and zero-outage deployments.

My core strength lies in translating complex business objectives into robust, profitable technical solutions — presenting high-level technical vision to stakeholders, mentoring senior engineers, and building enterprise architectures that power digital businesses across LATAM and globally.

Interests

  • Enterprise Architecture & System Design
  • Digital Transformation
  • Software Observability & Reliability
  • Mentoring & Engineering Leadership
  • Technology (Programming / Software / Hardware / Automation)
  • Problem solving

Education

  • Master in Information Technology Architecture (MATI) — in progress 🇨🇴, Present

    Universidad de los Andes

  • Master of Science — Data Science 🇪🇸, 2021-2023

    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

  • Electronic Engineer 🇨🇴, 2009-2016

    Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Staff Software Engineer

PayJoy

Jul 2025 – Present San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸 (Remote)

Technical leader and system architect for Identity systems, defining architectural direction and making high-impact technical decisions in a global FinTech serving millions of customers across emerging markets.

Key Achievements:

  • Designed and delivered a tool that validates Identity configurations across 10 countries, eliminating silent failures in critical onboarding flows.
  • Implemented a Mock Server platform for mission-critical KYC flows enabling automated regression testing — achieving zero outages for SMILE-related changes.
  • Reduced test execution time from ~2 min to 10 secs, significantly accelerating QA cycle times.
  • Redesigned alerting systems and created operational playbooks, improving signal-to-noise ratio and reducing MTTR for Identity services.
  • Modernized legacy AngularJS flows by increasing test coverage and fixing recurring high-impact bugs.
 
 
 
 
 

Lead Software Engineer — GBA Products (Brazil, México & Colombia)

Nubank

Dec 2024 – Jul 2025 Brazil 🇧🇷 (Remote)
  • Launched and stabilized Redeban Instant Payments within a tight 2-month agenda.
  • Supported and improved monitoring and stability for SPEI (including DiMo).
  • Led the first transfer-out flow in Colombia into a global platform.
  • Designed, modeled and implemented global flows for notifications and contacts management.
  • Achievement: Obtained Certification for Instant Payments (Redeban) with Keys product with RBM.
 
 
 
 
 

Lead Software Engineer — Foundations Global Bank Account

Nubank

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 Brazil 🇧🇷 (Remote)

Led Transfer Rails as a Global Platform for the Colombian Savings Account. Key contributions include implementing PSE payments, certifying the “Avanza” flow, and creating a backoffice platform for improved ACH/PSE operations.

Key Achievements:

  • Obtained Certification for PSE Payments and PSE Recurrent Payments with ACH Company.
  • Improved stability index p95 from 1 to 3.14 for ACH and PSE components.
  • Reduced manual error incidents from 1–2 monthly to 0.
  • Reduced incidents/alerts for ACH “netting” and PSE Payments/Transfers from ~20/day to 0 on most days.
  • Achieved >85% success rate in PSE rail (above the 70% benchmark).
  • Developed tracing applications to follow incidents by flow-id, generating sequence diagrams from logs.
 
 
 
 
 

Co-Founder COO / Interim CTO

EPI3

Sep 2023 – Feb 2025 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Multidisciplinary technology company focused on social impact through scientific knowledge and technological innovation.

  • Innovation: Creating projects and exploring new ideas in technology.
  • Integration: Bridging perspectives in technology, marketing, and finance.
  • Services: Custom developments, cloud migrations (AWS, Azure, GCP), Geographic Information Systems, Business Intelligence, and BigData.
 
 
 
 
 

Lead Software Engineer — Core Account Colombia

Nubank

Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
  • Led Core Banking integration for the launch of the Colombian Savings Account.
  • Whiteboarding and RFC initiatives for product launch (GFM, Embargoes, Smart-Supervision, Transunion, etc.).
  • Developed architectures and software for highly complex initiatives using Clojure, Kafka, Datomic, REST, SOAP, global and sharded micro-services, resilient systems, and monitoring.
  • Added new capabilities to the Clojure services prototype/template to standardize best practices.
  • Led and managed software engineers; performance tuning in the engineer family (chapter).
  • Led tech debt reduction initiative.
 
 
 
 
 

University Professor

Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito

Jan 2023 – May 2024 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
Software engineering professor. Masterclasses in the Software Development Lifecycle covering: Git, software principles, SOLID, design patterns, TDD, ORM, SpringBoot (MVC), ACID, Agile Methodologies (Kanban/Scrum/XP), DevOps, CI/CD, Quality Attributes, SonarCloud, and Traditional Methodologies.
 
 
 
 
 

Head of Digital Development

Banco de Bogotá

Sep 2021 – Feb 2023 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Led a development organization of more than 130 developers. Guided leaders of tribes/guilds and scaled agile software practices across the entire company as a change agent.

  • Governed software Building Blocks and Fitness Functions.
  • Defined functions and career plans for agile software developer roles.
  • Created guidelines, directives, standards, and indicators for the development lifecycle, architecture, infrastructure, deployment, and testing.
  • Achievement: Improved NPS of Developer Experience from 49 to 86. Helped organize six tribes/guilds of bank initiatives.
 
 
 
 
 

Senior Software Developer Consultant

torre.co

Mar 2021 – Aug 2021 Napa, California, United States 🇺🇸 (Remote)
Validated code from high-potential engineers evaluating quality code and best practices. Provided detailed feedback on candidate results to human resources.
 
 
 
 
 

Business Architecture Advisor

Isatech Corporation S.A.S

Aug 2020 – Jan 2021 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
Advisory on the use and implementation of QGIS software for a business architecture project for multipurpose cadastre operators.
 
 
 
 
 

Digital Development Leader

Banco de Bogotá

Nov 2019 – Sep 2021 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
  • Created guidelines, directives, standards, and indicators for agile development.
  • Governed common component initiatives (Building Blocks).
  • Mentoring and coaching high-performance teams.
  • Achievements: Improved average test coverage from 20% to 90% via TDD. Scaled development area from 40 to 120 people. Grew digital product portfolio from 6 to 30+.
 
 
 
 
 

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Banco de Bogotá

Aug 2018 – Nov 2019 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
  • Frontend and backend developer for the Credit Card product using Ionic-Angular and Spring Boot.
  • Fullstack developer for the Authenticator product and common components using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java.
  • Achievement: Implemented facial recognition and dactyloscopy, increasing complete authentication conversion rate from 10% to 69% in 2 years.
 
 
 
 
 

Full Stack Developer

INCIGE S.A.S

Nov 2016 – Aug 2018 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
Main developer of the first version of “Visor Acueducto TAR PLMB”. Infrastructure solutions for CI/CD and software development for “Support Modernization of Land Administration in Colombia”. Backend in Java EE, Spring, and Node.js. Frontend in React, Redux, and OpenLayers.
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

Mar 2015 – Aug 2018 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Progressive roles over 3.5 years:

  • Software Engineer (Jan 2018 – Aug 2018): Computer solutions using AWS, Golang, Beego, Bootstrap, OracleDB, PHP7, PostgreSQL.
  • Software Engineer (Feb 2017 – Jan 2018): Solutions supporting the academic management system using the OAS scrum framework.
  • Software Developer (Mar 2016 – Jan 2017): Technology support solutions for the Academic Management System.
  • Junior Inspector Tests (Mar 2015 – Feb 2016): Technological support for the Institutional Information System (UDISTRITAL).
 
 
 
 
 

Junior Software Developer

Geo Thinking

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
  • (Jan 2013 – Jan 2015): Web application development using PHP, Python, and .NET. Database management with MySQL and PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
  • (Jan 2012 – Jan 2013): Development of server-side and client-side applications for viewing and managing geographic data in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

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Skills

Monitoring & Observability

Software observability, alerting systems, and operational playbooks for distributed systems.

Mentoring & Leadership

Mentoring senior engineers, conducting interviews, and defining org-wide engineering standards.

Enterprise Architecture

Designing resilient, global-scale platforms and translating business objectives into technical solutions.

Distributed Systems

Microservices, Kafka, Clojure, Datomic, REST, SOAP, and resilient design patterns.

DevOps & CI/CD

Infrastructure automation, cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP), and software delivery pipelines.

Digital Transformation

Leading agile transformations, scaling development organizations, and improving Developer Experience.