A life story

Luisa Arboleda Zapata

Software Developer

A life written in code across three countries β€” building software with the care of someone who has also learned to break it, to protect it, and to tell its story.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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The Story

Chapters woven together

Each chapter blends work and study, anchored by the country she called home at the time.

Chapter 01

Roots in the City of Eternal Spring

MedellΓ­nΒ·The beginning

Before the first line of code, there was MedellΓ­n β€” a city that blooms in every season, cradled by the Andes and lit with a warmth that never quite fades. Here, beneath mountains that watch over the valley, a girl first learned to be curious: to take things apart, to ask why, to look at the world as a puzzle waiting to be understood. Long before software or security, there was the clatter of the city, the patience of family, and the quiet certainty that one day, the road would call. This is where the story starts β€” not with a job, but with a home.

Chapter 02

Where the craft took shape

Guatemala CityΒ·2014 β€” 2018

The road led north, to Guatemala City, where a curious mind found her footing in code. Days were spent learning the foundations of computer science, evenings building the first real systems that would shape a career. It was here that the love for solving problems with software took root β€” and where the first professional chapters were written, side by side with study.

B.Sc. Computer Science

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

2014 β€” 2018

Analyst Programmer

BASIS Consultores

2017 β€” 2018

Web Developer

SERVIR S.A.

2018

Chapter 03

A new country, a new lens

Melbourne, VICΒ·2019 β€” 2021

A flight across the Pacific brought a new home and a new way of seeing. In Melbourne, the story deepened with a Master of Cybersecurity β€” learning to look at systems not only as a builder, but as a guardian. It was a season of growth, of long winters, of seeing the world through a wider, more security-minded lens.

M.Cybersecurity

La Trobe University

2019 β€” 2021

Chapter 04

Stepping into the industry

Sydney, NSWΒ·2022 β€” 2024

Sydney was the proving ground. Two roles ran in parallel β€” consulting with FDM and building software with IAG β€” sharpening the craft across enterprise systems, automation, and delivery. It was a fast, formative season: real teams, real scale, and the confidence that comes from doing the work where it matters.

IT Consultant

FDM Group

Jun 2022 β€” Jun 2024

Software Developer

IAG

Jul 2022 β€” Feb 2024

Chapter 05

Coming full circle

Remote Β· ColombiaΒ·2026

The story returns home. Working remotely with Syscon SAS, the journey that began in the Andes β€” and grew across Guatemala and Australia β€” now closes the loop. The same curiosity that once watched the mountains over MedellΓ­n now shapes software for teams an ocean away. The next chapter is still being written, but the foundation has never been steadier, and the circle has never been more complete.

Software Developer

Syscon SAS

2026 β€” present

The Toolkit

Skills gathered along the way

A growing collection of languages, frameworks, and ways of working β€” picked up across countries, teams, and seasons of practice.

Languages

C#JavaJavaScriptPythonSQLVisual BasicHTML/CSS

Frameworks

ASP.NET CoreReactSeleniumCucumber

Tools & Platforms

GitBambooOracleREST APIsOrbit CRM

Methods & Practice

AgileSDLCQA AutomationSource Control

Spoken Languages

Spanish β€” NativeEnglish β€” Fluent

The Work

Technical projects spotlight

Two projects that capture the way she works β€” automation with rigour, and integration with care.

Featured Project

Security Automation Framework

JavaSeleniumCucumber

A behaviour-driven test automation framework built to validate security-critical flows across enterprise applications β€” turning repetitive manual verification into reliable, repeatable, human-readable scenarios.

  • BDD scenarios in Cucumber mapped to Selenium step definitions
  • Reduced manual regression effort across release cycles
  • Reusable page-object layer for maintainable test code
Featured Project

Full-Stack Micro-Frontend Integration

ReactOracleREST

A micro-frontend integration stitching independent React surfaces into a single cohesive experience, backed by Oracle services and REST contracts β€” built for scale, isolation, and team autonomy.

  • Composed independent frontends behind a shared shell
  • Oracle-backed REST services with typed contracts
  • Cross-team delivery without coupling release cadences

The Closing

Thank you for reading

If a chapter here resonated, or if you would like to write the next one together β€” I would love to hear from you.

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