Cesar Aranda Huicochea

Senior Backend Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing, developing, modernizing, and delivering enterprise applications, with a strong focus on Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems. Throughout my career, I have worked on modernization initiatives involving legacy applications, evolving them toward modern architectures and more maintainable technology stacks. My hands-on experience includes event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka and messaging platforms, relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle, and AWS cloud services. I also work with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automated testing. I am comfortable across the full software delivery lifecycle, from requirements analysis and solution design to architecture, development, integration, testing, deployment, and production ownership. I regularly collaborate with cross-functional teams including product owners, architects, QA engineers, DevOps, and other development teams to translate business requirements into reliable technical solutions and deliver them successfully. I bring a pragmatic engineering approach focused on scalability, maintainability, reliability, and continuous improvement, while remaining hands-on with implementation and technical problem solving. I enjoy working on complex systems where modernization, architecture, and engineering quality need to be balanced with practical delivery.