Nicolás Arias

Senior Software Engineer

I build fast, scalable products — from frontend interfaces to backend systems — and help engineering teams ship with confidence.

Nicolás Arias - Software Engineer

About Me

Get to know me better

Hello! I'm Nicolás Arias, a passionate software engineer with over 7 years of experience building web and mobile applications. I specialize in modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue.js, and Node.js, with a strong focus on creating scalable and maintainable solutions.

As a technical leader, I enjoy mentoring other developers and architecting robust systems. I'm constantly learning and exploring new technologies to stay at the forefront of software development. My approach combines technical excellence with practical problem-solving to deliver high-quality solutions.

7+ Years Experience
5+ Engineers Led
10+ Enterprise Projects

Work Experience

Companies and teams I've had the pleasure of building with

Senior Software Engineer

Nubrakes – Acquired by Valvoline 2024 – Present
  • Maintain the nubrakes.com application, which serves tens of thousands of vehicles monthly
  • Implemented route optimization features that improved technician efficiency by up to 10%
  • Built the portal for managing and serving vehicle fleets

Software Engineer

Voice123 – Acquired by Backstage 2020 – 2024
  • Architected and implemented multiple features for the Voice123 platform, used by over one million people worldwide
  • Led data integrations with third-party tools including HubSpot and Metabase
  • Reduced the open bug backlog from over 90 issues to fewer than 10

Junior Developer

Bismark IOT 2018 – 2020
  • Developed high-performance frontend applications rendering large volumes of geographic, industrial, and user data from IoT devices on the Cumulocity IoT Cloud
  • Built IoT agents using Node.js and Scala, deployed on EC2 instances and AWS Lambda
  • Contributed to a React Native mobile application for monitoring public service truck routes

Contractor

Bluetread
  • Developed MyApp, a React Native mobile application enabling diabetes patients to request medical supplies from their insurance provider
  • Fixed bugs and implemented new features for Bonafide, a React Native mobile app for managing the inventory and delivery of medical supplies

Contractor

Commercial Academy
  • Rebuilt the revamped version of the commercial hub platform
  • Built the MVP of their commercial property underwriting system

Contractor

Publishing.com
  • Built the MVP for their AI-powered book writing tool
  • Created the publishing.com chrome extension for integrating with KDP and gather insights about performance of their books sales

Contractor

HelloAxel
  • Built the MVP of the trip monitoring system portal

Skills & Technologies

Tools I reach for every day

Frontend

React
Next.js
Vue.js
Nuxt.js
TypeScript
Tailwind
Redux

Backend

Node.js
NestJS
Express
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB

Tools & DevOps

Docker
Kubernetes
Git
GitHub
GitLab CI

AI Integration

OpenAI API Google Gemini LLM Prompting Embeddings Vector DBs AI Features

Companies I've Worked With

Trusted by innovative companies across different industries

Personal (old) Projects

Star Battle Game

A web-based game created exclusively with vanilla JavaScript, developed as training for WorldSkills competitions.

JavaScript HTML5 CSS3

Reverse Auction Mobile App

Mobile application developed in React Native for RedCOLSI Foundation research project 2018.

React Native JavaScript Mobile

Native Android App

Android application developed natively with Java, as training for Senasoft 2018 competition.

Java Android Native

Hanoi Towers Game

Web-based Hanoi Towers game created with HTML5, CSS3, and vanilla JavaScript. Results are saved to Firebase real-time database.

JavaScript Firebase HTML5

GraphQL API Backend

Backend for RedCOLSI 2018 research project application, written in Node.js with GraphQL infrastructure.

Node.js GraphQL Express

YouMovie Website

Movie website using Vue.js framework to create reusable card components when making requests to TheMovieDB API.

Vue.js API JavaScript

Get In Touch

Let's work together

Location

Colombia