Luis Ballesteros

Email: luballe@luballe.com

GitHub: github.com/luballe

Professional Profile

A highly motivated Systems and Computing Engineer with a strong command of Python programming and a passion for applying technology to solve real-world problems. I have extensive experience in embedded systems, signal and image processing, geographic information systems, and web/mobile/cloud development, specializing in information security. My Master's degree in visualization, robotics, and high-performance computing has equipped me with the skills to tackle complex technical challenges. I am particularly interested in applying my experience within the industry, especially in areas such as automation, data analytics, computer vision, and geographic information systems.

Technical Skills

Relevant Experience

Secretary of Transport of Bogotá – Software Engineer (May 2024 – Present)

  • Development of the Intelligent Transport System website. FrontEnd deployed in Next.js. BackEnd and Nodejs. Database in Oracle and Postgresql.

Secretary of Transport of Bogotá – Software Engineer (April 2020 – October 2022)

  • Developed a smart camera prototype using Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX for license plate detection and traffic statistics analysis (Python).
  • Created a Python algorithm to calculate traffic lane speeds based on bus GPS coordinates utilizing high-performance libraries like Numba (for GPU parallel processing) and multiprocessing.
  • Optimized computer vision algorithms for vehicle detection and tracking in Bogotá using YoloV4, Darknet, TensorFlow, and TensorRT (Python scripting and integration).
  • Leveraged MS Azure cloud services like Databricks, Cosmos NoSQL DB, and GPU VMs.
  • Developed an installer in Bash and Python to automate library and code loading.

ByYuto LLC – Software Engineer (September 2021 – April 2022)

  • Designed and developed back-end and front-end solutions using various technologies including Python for backend logic and scripting.

Independent – Drone Development (January 2020 – May 2020)

  • Constructed autonomous drones using DroneKit Python / Ardupilot / Pixhawk / OpenTX / STM32-Nucleo stack.

District Planning Office – Front-end Developer (March 2019 – December 2019)

  • Implemented a regional spatial data infrastructure using ESRI’s ArcGIS Online Technology encompassing 200+ datasets and 5 dashboards.

Cadastral Office Bogotá – Technical Leader (October 2016 – December 2018)

  • Implemented a geographic information system using Python, CKAN, NodeJS, Jinja, Bash scripting, Solr-Lucene, ESRI ArcMap/Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and JavaEE deployed on Azure and AWS.

Other Experience

Catastro Bogotá – IDECA – Front End Developer (July 2015 – April 2016)

Canguro Foundation – Image Processing Analyst (February 2014 – January 2015)

Hotel los Balcones de Apulo – Full Stack Developer (January 2013 – July 2015)

Universidad de Los Andes – System and Computing Graduate Assistant (January 2012 – January 2013)

Neosys – Oxy Petroleum Corporation – Test Engineer (May 2011 – December 2011)

IBM Corporation – Technical Solution Manager – Inside Brand Specialist (October 2008 – March 2010)

BBVA Group – Coordinator and Technical Leader of Web Projects (April 2006 – September 2008)

Tecnovas Informática – Full-stack Developer (June 2004 – January 2006)

Royal & Sun Alliance – Information Technology Analyst (June 2003 – December 2003)

IBM Corporation – Intern (February 1999 – January 2001)

Education

Master in Systems and Computing Engineering – Los Andes University (March 2015)

Information Security Specialist – Los Andes University (October 2008)

Systems and Computing Engineer – Los Andes University (March 2006)

Additional Studies

Heterogeneous Parallel Programming (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Microsoft System Server Configuration Manager Essentials

Sales Diploma (La Sabana University)

Languages

English (Berlitz Level 7 – Advanced)

Spanish (Native)