Who's Barto?
Juan Alejandro Pérez Bermúdez
An engineer from Dosquebradas: I write software someone else can pick up, and I host rooms where people learn out loud.
Friends call me Barto. I was born in Manizales, have lived in Dosquebradas since 2009, and finished Systems and Computing Engineering at UTP in 2025. Campus left me a better habit than a diploma: asking whether what we ship survives real use, not just the demo.
Day to day I move between Flutter apps, Firebase or FastAPI backends, and TypeScript fronts. I would rather leave tests, pipelines, and decisions that do not depend on me being in the chat than collect frameworks. If a deploy or an API can be understood without guessing, the work is done.
Since 2023 I have been pushing the tech calendar in Colombia's Coffee Axis: logistics, speakers, and the conversation after the talk. Founding QAConf — the region's first gathering built around software quality — is the part of the job that does not fit in a repository.
Skills
- Flutter
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Firebase
- Python
- QA
Timeline
Work
Education
- 2025
Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
B.S. in Systems and Computing Engineering, class of 2025.
- 2024
SONAR I.S.C.
Software-quality research with the regional seedbed network, 2022–2024.
Community
- 2026 AWS User Group Pereira
AWS user group in Pereira; I am part of the organizing team.
- 2026 Tinku — Tribu Hackathon
The north Valle's first AI hackathon (The Tribu), in Cartago. I competed with team 418: I'm a Teapot and we placed third.
- 2025 Open Tech Hackathon
An AI and blockchain hackathon co-organized by local communities; I was on staff.
- 2024 QAConf
The Coffee Axis's first gathering dedicated to software quality. Two in-person editions and one virtual after the August 10 earthquake.
- 2024 Pereira Tech Talks
A monthly meetup community that fosters Pereira's tech scene; it also hosts Pereira Tech Day. I am part of the organizing team.
- 2023 Software Freedom Day
Led by the Backbone research seedbed. A worldwide free-software celebration (since 2004): talks, research-group stands, and FLOSS philosophy.
- 2023 FLISOL
The Latin American Festival of Free Software Installation (FLISOL) returned to Pereira in 2023; I have been part of the organizing team since 2024.