Victor Olave, senior fullstack developer in the Medellín area, Colombia

Nine years turning ambiguous problems into software that simply works. And keeps working.

Quiet builder, turning ideas into systems, through design, detail and restraint.

Victor Olave.
Selected work

CASE 01 · Education platform 2023 – Present · Lead engineer

An academy that outgrew WhatsApp.

Dev Senior Code ran its whole operation through chat threads. I led the build of the platform underneath it: student portal, admin dashboard, program management and scheduling, automated where it made sense and with humans kept in the loop where it mattered.

  • Student portal and admin dashboard replacing WhatsApp-based operations
  • Program management and scheduling automated end to end

Next.js · NestJS · React · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · n8n

Student dashboard: active programs and the day's agenda, with sessions and instructors scheduled
CASE 02 · Logistics product Product designer & engineer

The operation, out of the chat threads.

A legacy logistics platform plus customer operations over WhatsApp, replaced by one product: marketing site, client portal, admin platform and integrated payments. Customers now track, request and pay without messaging anyone.

  • Admin platform replacing the legacy system and manual customer ops
  • Client portal with tracking, requests and integrated payments

Next.js · NestJS · PostgreSQL

Admin dashboard: weekly volume, load per responsable and top clients, replacing the chat threads
The full shelf
Selected work · 2023–2026
Pumas de Antioquia: screenshot of the live product
Pumas de Antioquia

Far more than fits here.

About

A short biography

Nine years of considered engineering.

I design and build the systems behind useful products. Nine years shipping end-to-end, with React and TypeScript on the front and Node and NestJS on the back. Now leaning hard into AI-powered product engineering: LLMs, agents with MCP, RAG, prompt engineering as a product discipline.

What I care about, in order: clarity of intent, predictability under load, and giving the next person on the codebase a fair chance. I question requirements before writing code and ship small, opinionated things. Responsible AI by default: guardrails, honest limits, humans in the loop where it counts.

Based in Envigado, in the Medellín metro area of Colombia, working with teams across the Aburrá Valley and remotely. Available now for select engagements: contract work, lead-engineer roles, technical advisory.

Stack

What I reach for.

AI engineering
  • LLM integration
  • Agents & MCP
  • RAG
  • Prompt engineering
Frontend
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Angular
Backend
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Express
  • REST
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
Experience

Employment history

The track record.

Available for work
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  1. Senior Fullstack Developer

    Lean Tech · Medellín

    Sep 2022 – Present · now

  2. Full Stack Engineer

    iZeven · Medellín

    Full-time → part-time (2022)

    Jun 2021 – Jul 2023

  3. Freelance Full Stack Developer

    Independent · Remote

    Concurrent · SYP Solutions, Comunix S.A.S., CEOTIC

    2021 – 2022

  4. Full Stack Developer

    Securitic · Popayán

    May 2020 – May 2021

  5. Full Stack Developer

    Creazion · Popayán

    Sep 2019 – May 2020

  6. Systems Engineer in Software Development

    Corporación Universitaria Comfacauca

    Jan 2017 – Jan 2022

  7. + Selected roles · nine years in software since 2017

Process

Step 1 / 4
01

Listen .

Map the territory before drawing the map.

Step 2 / 4
02

Frame .

One user, one outcome, one week of work.

Step 3 / 4
03

Build .

Ship small and pointed. Deploy day one.

Step 4 / 4
04

Refine .

Harden the seams, document, hand off clean.

In their words

Our previous site was for internal use only. Clients could not use it, nor track their shipments. Now they manage shipments and pay quickly and securely, even linking Apple Pay.
DV
David Vásquez
EYP Logistic
We used to enter every client's information by hand. Now the clients feed the system themselves: they register, request and pay, which freed us to focus on what grows the business.
NJ
Natalia Jaramillo
EYP Logistic
The platform took the repetitive data entry off me and gave me the autonomy to resolve directly what used to need long manual processes. The hour that once scheduled a single day now schedules the whole week.
JV
Julián Villanueva
Dev Senior Code
Skills

Skills

I build software that scales and endures.

Contact me ✦
  • LLM integration (Claude, OpenAI)
  • Agentic systems & MCP
  • RAG architectures
  • Prompt engineering
  • Responsible AI
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Angular
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Motion One
  • GSAP
  • Three.js
  • WebGL
  • Lenis
  • Canvas
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Express
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • WebSockets
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Prisma
  • Drizzle
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Vercel
  • Railway
  • AWS
  • Git
  • OAuth / JWT
  • Hexagonal Arch.
  • Testing
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Figma
  • Design Systems
  • Atomic Design
  • Accessibility
Right now

A small
logbook.

Where my attention is, this season. Updated when something genuinely shifts, about every six weeks.

Last updated · May 2026
  • 01 Reading "A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander
  • 02 Building A small CLI for ergonomic Postgres migrations
  • 03 Listening Sufjan Stevens, Caetano Veloso, lots of Bach
  • 04 Watching Severance S3, and the Mubi back catalog
  • 05 City Envigado, Colombia · GMT-5
  • 06 Status Available for new engagements
Get in touch

Let’s talk.

hola@victorolave.dev
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