Miguel D. Quintero

Independent Engineer Remote Jul 2025 – Present

Freelance Full Stack & DevOps Engineer · AI & Open Source

• Adopted an AI-assisted, agentic development workflow (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot) to design, build and ship 10+ open-source tools in Bash, Go, QML and JavaScript, plus Docker Hub images for PHP 8.5 and Python + uv.
• Scaled Gogh (10k+ GitHub stars) from ~300 to 1,250+ color schemes in 2026 with AI-assisted workflows, GitHub Actions pipelines (pull request validation and automated JSON, CSV, YAML and TXT exports) and a project website (gogh.website) with persistent favorites.
• Built Gona Launcher with AI-assisted development, an approved Omarchy 4.0 plugin (QML, Quickshell) with configurable app tiles, profiles, 20 opening effects and Dark/Light themes.
• Created Amalgam, a Cinnamon desktop theme of 3,600+ assets (icons, cursors, GTK themes, Nemo add-ons, applets) unified with AI tools, published with a searchable visual index website.
• Built AI-powered automation workflows with n8n and the Claude and OpenAI APIs.
• Designed and built websites with SEO optimization for small businesses, including a ballet academy and a cabin rental business in Villa de Leyva.

Rabinovici & Associates (RAB2B) Remote (USA, LATAM) Jul 2018 – Jun 2025

Digital marketing agency serving enterprise technology clients

Tech Lead, DevOps & Full Stack Apr 2022 – Jun 2025 (rejoined)

• Led the DevOps division and development team, standardizing implementation, deployment, maintenance and support processes across Drupal, WordPress and HubSpot projects.
• Designed and built an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) unifying reproducible environments, deployment pipelines and team standards, cutting developer onboarding from 2 weeks spread across many sessions to 2 days in 2 sessions.
• Built reproducible local environments with Docksal and custom Docker images (Node, PHP, Python), cutting environment setup from 2 days to 4 hours (~83%), project switching from 2–4 hours to under 10 minutes (~95%) and setup issues by 80%.
• Automated deployments with CI/CD pipelines on Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and GitHub, with alerts, reporting and Playwright end-to-end tests, reducing delivery time by up to 75% and shortening QA cycles.
• Managed AWS (IAM, S3), DigitalOcean, Acquia, Platform.sh, WP Engine and Cloudflare; deployed Netbird private networking and Infisical secrets management, reducing incidents and DevOps load by ~50%.
• Designed a Git branching strategy and a pipeline-integrated Content Freeze workflow for Drupal and WordPress to protect production content.
• Replaced commercial tools with self-hosted open-source platforms (Uptime Kuma, Netdata, NocoDB, Beszel, Directus), cutting related costs by 87%.
• Partnered with the data team to implement Dagster for data transformation and analytics workflows.

Front End Tech Lead Jul 2018 – Sep 2021

• Led the front-end team in Colombia, coordinating deliverables and enforcing development standards for international clients.
• Designed a modular landing page framework (JavaScript, Node, Gulp) with Eloqua (Oracle) integration, reducing development time by up to 85% (two weeks to three days).
• Led the adoption of Vue.js after an internal analysis, increasing delivery speed for new features by ~30%.
• Migrated hosting from AWS-based setups to DigitalOcean, reducing platform costs by ~60%.
• Built internal tools: a preview portal (Devbox) that auto-generates project screenshots from repositories, a technical documentation portal (later migrated to Confluence) and a Function Point API integration for project tracking.
• Automated internal processes with Python scripts, reducing manual workload by ~50%; led the team’s transition to Figma.

Key clients: Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Motorola Solutions, Zebra Technologies, DXC Technology, LATAM Airlines, Encore Global, IBML, Kramer, rfIdeas, Payway.

Prodigious Latin America Remote (Global) Sep 2021 – Apr 2022

Senior Front End Developer — landing pages, websites and custom web applications for international clients.

Digital Active Strategies S.A.S. Bogotá, Colombia Oct 2015 – Oct 2019

Web Developer & IT Lead (part-time consultant from Aug 2018)

• Migrated 40+ websites with zero downtime or client impact.
• Introduced GitLab, Redmine and Nextcloud, defined Git and backup workflows and trained staff in version control.
• Managed hosting, VPS servers, DNS and Google Workspace; reduced operational costs by consolidating providers onto virtual servers.
• Set up analytics and campaign attribution with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Search Console and UTM standards.
• Built and maintained WordPress sites and an optimized landing page template.
• Upgraded the office network with Mikrotik segmentation and wired workstations.

Earlier Experience Ibagué, Colombia 2009 – 2015

• Turrisystem Ltda. — Web Developer (2014–2015): Built the websites of the Red Cross of Tolima and the Tolima Department of Health; implemented GitLab, Redmine and Git workflows and ran internal technical workshops.
• Freelance Web Developer (2009–2013): Built the official Mozilla Colombia website and a Firefox OS prototype for Mozilla Hispano; organized Mozilla AppDay Ibagué; created the Elementary OS Terminal Colors script (the origin of Gogh), featured by Hipertextual; spoke on Markdown at Universidad del Tolima (2013).