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Luis Alberto Duarte Cortés

Systems engineer · AI security panelist · Local-first builder

Bogotá · Remote · C1 English

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Profile

Systems Engineer in Bogotá building AI systems, automation pipelines, and API integrations. Local-first by conviction. Open to remote Solutions / Forward-Deployed Engineer roles.

Experience

Freelance Automation Engineer

Self-Employed

Bogotá · Apr 2024 – Present

Designing and deploying automation workflows integrating REST APIs, webhooks, and Python scripts to reduce operational overhead. Maintaining the open-source voice-recognition accessibility tool adopted by SENA Regional Amazonas and Universidad ECCI. Speaker at cybersecurity and network security conferences.

  • Automation
  • n8n
  • Python
  • APIs
  • Open Source
  • Accessibility

QA Tester (Contract)

Funktronic Labs

Remote · Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

Executed manual regression and sanity testing across software builds for a US-based game development studio. Documented structured bug reports with reproduction steps, severity ratings, and expected vs actual behavior. Served as bridge between engineering and end-user experience, retesting patches to confirm resolution.

  • QA
  • Regression Testing
  • Bug Tracking
  • Remote
  • Technical Docs

Featured project

Open-Source Live Captioning System for Hearing-Impaired Students

Meritorious Thesis

Meritorious · In Use

Universidad ECCI — B.Sc. Systems Engineering · Thesis work: 2022–2023 · Graduated 2024

Built across 2022–2023 after a hearing-impaired classmate had no way to follow lectures in real time. The system generates live subtitles from the teacher's voice directly to the student's screen and stores a full transcript for later review. Completed before the 2024 graduation and awarded a Meritorious distinction. Adopted by two Colombian academic institutions. Zero licensing cost. Deployable by any institution on open source software alone.

Adopted by: SENA Regional Amazonas · Universidad ECCI

  • Node.js
  • Mozilla DeepSpeech
  • NGINX
  • Custom Dictionary Engine

Skills

Core

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • n8n
  • REST APIs
  • Linux

Tooling

  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Webhooks
  • Postman
  • Make

Certificates

AI Automation Engineering

Coderhouse · 2025

Python · FastAPI · n8n · LLM Integrations · Groq API

Adoption Certification No. 0001-2024 — Voice-to-Text Captioning Tool

SENA Regional Amazonas — Centro para la Biodiversidad y el Turismo · 2024

Accessibility · Speech-to-Text · Open Source · Digital Inclusion

Speaking

AI Tinkerers Bogotá

Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá · May 2026

Lightning talk: before AI can create real value inside an organization, it needs a usable context layer — context, knowledge graphs, and operational memory as the missing infrastructure for practical AI adoption. Event organized by Tribu IA.

AI & Cybersecurity Forum

Bogotá · May 2026

Panelist on "Cybersecurity in the Golden Era of AI" — agent models, emerging threats, and prompt injection attacks.

Cybersecurity Forum

Bogotá · 2025

Panelist on network security and infrastructure.