Hernán David Figueroa Cardenas
Bogotá, Colombia
Senior Mobile Engineer · Fintech & Secure Payments · React Native Architect · Fullstack
About
Senior Mobile Engineer specializing in fintech and secure payments, with 9+ years building production React Native apps from zero to scale. I've shipped a logistics platform used across multiple Latin American cities, grown a fintech mobile app from its first user to 500+ daily active clients, and implemented PCI DSS-compliant security layers — SSL Pinning, integrity validation, and secure AWS Lambda architectures — at one of Colombia's leading payment gateways. I care deeply about clean architecture, security-first engineering, and writing code that doesn't become someone else's problem six months later.
Experience
Mobile Engineer
Wompi · Fintech — Colombia's Leading Payment Gateway 🇨🇴
- Implemented SSL Pinning, certificate transparency validation and runtime integrity checks, hardening the mobile app against MITM attacks and tampering.
- Built and secured AWS Lambda functions following PCI DSS compliance requirements, ensuring sensitive payment data never touches unvalidated surfaces.
- Integrated the mobile client with Wompi's payment infrastructure using encrypted communication layers and token-based auth flows.
- Participated in architecture reviews and deployment pipelines for production-critical payment features.
Nov 2025 — Present
~4 months
Senior Mobile Developer
Mento · Fintech Startup 🇨🇱
- Built the React Native app from scratch, taking it from initial architecture to 500+ daily active users in production.
- Owned the full deployment pipeline — from CI/CD configuration to App Store and Google Play releases — ensuring zero-downtime delivery cycles.
- Implemented mobile security measures including secure storage, token rotation and communication encryption to protect sensitive financial data.
- Led architectural decisions across the mobile layer, balancing product velocity with long-term maintainability.
Sep 2023 — Nov 2025
2 yrs 3 mos
Mobile Technical Lead
Bentex · Subsidiary of Logistecsa (Ecuador) 🇨🇴🇪🇨
- Designed and built MetroDelivery — a last-mile logistics mobile platform — from zero, covering driver tracking, route assignment, delivery confirmation and real-time status updates.
- Led a mobile engineering team: architecture decisions, code reviews, development standards and feature planning across multiple delivery cycles.
- Defined the app's data flow and offline-first strategy to support drivers in low-connectivity zones across Latin America.
Jan 2022 — Aug 2024
2 yrs 8 mos
Frontend & Mobile Developer
Orbis Data 🇨🇱
- Designed and implemented RESTful API integrations supporting both mobile and web applications.
- Migrated and optimized web-based flows into performant React Native screens, improving load times and UX consistency.
Oct 2022 — Sep 2023
12 months
Fullstack Developer
Koscrypt 🇨🇴
- Built RESTful APIs and high-performance web applications using Node.js, Express and Angular 2+.
- Improved application speed, security and reliability through continuous profiling and performance tuning.
Dec 2018 — Feb 2022
3 yrs 3 mos
IT Support Technician
Secretaría de Integración Social de Bogotá 🇨🇴
- Managed hardware and software inventory and provided technical support for internal systems.
- Performed preventive and corrective maintenance, developed user documentation and operational guidelines.
Dec 2014 — May 2016
1 yr 6 mos
Tech Stack
Mobile
Backend
Security
DevOps & Delivery
Frontend
Practices
Personal Projects
ForgeAI —
Creator
davshn.gumroad.com/l/ForgeAI · Published
- Production-grade AI workflow orchestrator for software-driven development — designed to automate and coordinate multi-step AI agent pipelines in real dev environments.
- Built for developers who need structured, repeatable AI-assisted workflows beyond simple prompt chaining — published and distributed via Gumroad.
2026
Published
CyberQuest — Founder
& Lead Engineer
cyber-quest-landing.vercel.app · Currently in Beta
- Gamified enterprise cybersecurity training platform — mobile app (React Native) + web dashboard + AI engine, built end-to-end as sole architect and developer.
- Implemented OTP-based passwordless auth, role-based content personalization (administrative, technical, managerial) and real-time progress analytics for enterprise clients.
- Integrated AI-powered contextual feedback and automatic certificate generation after each training module, targeting 80% engagement improvement vs traditional formats.
- Architected for regulatory compliance use cases — aligned with ISO 27001, COBIT and OWASP training frameworks.
2025 — Present
Beta
Foundry Virtual Tabletop — Open Source Contributor
foundryvtt.com · v1.15.2 ·
Published on Official Marketplace
- Contributed to Foundry VTT — a self-hosted virtual tabletop platform with 200+ supported game systems and a global community of thousands of players and developers.
- Developed and published modules/plugins and a custom game system on the official Foundry marketplace, extending the platform's core functionality using its JavaScript API.
2022 — Present
v1.15.2
Education
Systems Engineering
CUN — Corporación Unificada Nacional
In progress · Propedeutic cycles
Technical
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Technologist
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Engineering
Fullstack Bootcamp
Henry
Sep 2020 — Jan 2021
Languages
Spanish
Native
English
Functional
Certifications
Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
Secure Software Development
SOLID Principles & Clean Code
Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
EF SET English Certificate