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Julio A.

Full Stack Developer | DevOps | Next.js, Go & AWS

Full-Stack Developer & DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of experience with modern programming languages such as Go, TypeScript, Rust, Python and C#. What I've built: - Real-time collaborative editors with per-organization workspaces, live presence and full-text search. - Multi-tenant REST APIs with JWT auth, Redis caching and search indexing. - A smart-locker platform with card payments, device control over MQTT and six hardware vendor integrations. - A document search service with Apache Lucene, S3-backed indices and scheduled ingestion jobs. Front End: - Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript - Tailwind CSS v4, shadcn/ui, Radix - Real-time collaboration (Yjs, PartyKit, Convex) - Rich-text and canvas editors (BlockNote, Lexical, React Flow) Back End: - REST APIs in Go, Python, C# and TypeScript - Event-driven services with RabbitMQ, MQTT and cron jobs - WebSockets for live data - Documented APIs with OpenAPI (Swagger, Scalar) - Auth providers: Clerk, Cognito, Keycloak, Better Auth, custom JWT DevOps: - Terraform - Kubernetes (EKS, LKE) - Docker multi-stage builds and minimal runtime images CI/CD: - GitHub Actions (lint, build, test, deploy) - Container Registries (GitHub, AWS, DigitalOcean) - Automated Kubernetes rollouts with Slack notifications Cloud Providers: - AWS (EKS, ECR, S3, Cognito, SES) - Vercel - Linode - DigitalOcean Databases: - PostgreSQL - MySQL / MariaDB - MongoDB - Redis, Memcached - Meilisearch, Apache Lucene AI Tools: - Claude Code - AI Agent Orchestration AI Development: - Vercel AI SDK (streaming, tool calling) - RAG Teamwork and Collaboration: - Jira Programming languages: - Go - TypeScript - Rust - Python - C# Frameworks: - Next.js - Echo - FastAPI - ASP.NET Core - Electron

🇨🇷Mora, Costa Rica$40/hr100% JSS1.63 (7)Since Jan 2019

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$2.7k

An estimate from an earlier read

World#14,850 / 412k
🇨🇷Country#34 / 515
Revenue, last 30 days
$3k

Last 6 months: $16k

World#12,370 / 412k
🇨🇷Country#28 / 515
Total earnings
$161k

Billed in all: $167k

World#21,187 / 412k
🇨🇷Country#42 / 515
Per project
$32k

$16k in the last 6 months

World#2,493 / 412k
🇨🇷Country#6 / 515
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇨🇷Country#127 / 515
Projects in all
5

Across 8 contracts

0% fixed100% hourly
World#266,042 / 412k
🇨🇷Country#232 / 515

Earnings, last 30 days

$167k+$2.9k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$162k$164k$166k$168kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

No data since Nov 5, 2026.

Skill rankings: Top 5% in Golang

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #48Rust888 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #1Top 5%
  2. #113Golang2,195 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #4Top 5%
  3. #144Terraform2,052 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #3Top 7%
  4. #176Jira3,199 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #1Top 6%
  5. #203GraphQL3,403 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #2Top 6%
  6. #215CI/CD3,691 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #3Top 6%
  7. #236Kubernetes3,351 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #4Top 7%
  8. #300DevOps4,403 freelancers · 🇨🇷 #3Top 7%