A Highly-skilled software engineer with excellent self-learning abilities, and 10 years of experience delivering scalable and high-quality web-applications used by millions of users. Possesses an extensive skill set, including 2+ years of experience working with distributed teams using English as principal language, high ownership, and attention to detail. Ready to make leverage decisions that generate meaningful impact team and organization wise.
Co-Creator of Foodie, an internal platform to reduce the food waste in Wizeline. Co-product owner, tech lead, and mentor of a 20+ on-training and newly hired engineers.
Believer of public and free divulgation of knowledge, co-organized of GDLJS, the JavaScript community in Guadalajara that offers a free and open space to share knowledge about the programming language ecosystem.
Aug 2021 - Present
Sr. Frontend Developer at Shopify, Remote, Guadalajara, Mex.
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Key Responsibilities
- Initially joined the Growth Team to conduct platform experiments, focusing on optimizing user experience and increasing platform engagement.
- Transitioned to the Core Delivery Team, where I am instrumental in enhancing Shopify's fulfillment capabilities through innovative front-end solutions.
- Lead multiple projects aimed at improving Shopify's admin learning system, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user interface for efficient management.
- Spearheaded the development of full-stack ad attribution tools, integrating front-end technologies with back-end systems for comprehensive ad performance tracking.
- Played a role in enhancing Shopify's React Native applications, focusing on application feature pairing with the web admin.
- Contributed significantly to the web admin interface, implementing front-end improvements for a more robust and user-friendly experience.
- Engaged in full-stack development for several projects, demonstrating versatility in handling both front-end and back-end aspects of software development.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of front-end solutions, aligning with Shopify's strategic goals.
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Key Accomplishments
- Served as a mentor to an intern, guiding them through complex projects and aiding in their professional development.
- Developed and implemented automation scripts to ensure comprehensive test coverage during a significant platform migration, enhancing overall system reliability.
- Successfully shipped multiple features used by millions of Shopify users, significantly contributing to the platform's growth and user satisfaction.
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Sr. Software Engineer at Skycatch, Guadalajara, Mex.
- Key responsibilities
- Full delivery process of the new era geo-data analysis and 3d maps rendering web platform. Including planning across teams, code development of a FullStack solution, and release of development and production platform builds.
- Maintain communication with different teams across the globe, using English as the principal language.
- Release master.
- Key accomplishments
- Purposed and applied the GeoJSON spec in the codebase, removing duplication on code and standardizing the storage of geo-information.
- Created a script for documenting the interface of internal modules, saving 90% of the time for updating the documentation.
- Main collaboration of the re-implementation of the delivery process of the platform with a release cadence from every 2 months bi-weeckly.
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
Software Engineer II at Wizeline, Guadalajara, Mex.
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Key responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable technical solutions integrated towards a successful product delivery cycle in different client-facing projects. Using technologies such as NodeJS, Serverless, React, and Vue.
- Maintain communication with different clients and teams across the globe, using English as the principal language.
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Key achievements
- Created a module that reduced the code boilerplate while creating new interactions between a web-client and an API, improving the effectivity and velocity of new implementations.
- Implemented the bases of the hexagonal architecture to a Serverless-based project, removing over complexity, and enabling the platform to re-use logic among modules.
- Co-creator and tech lead of Foodie. An internal application to reduce food waste in the company while improves the overall experience around it.
- Mentored +20 trainees and onboarding engineers.
- Lecturer of a Javascript academy for +120 people.
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
FullStack Developer at Millenium studio, Remote, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Key responsibilities
- Build the web application of a product that sells private gaming services.
- Key accomplishments
- Implementation of the recurrent payment system into the platform.
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
FullStack Developer at City Drive, Remote, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Key responsibilities
- Built different internal tools to improve the new drivers training time.
- Implementation of the third party payment integration.
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
FullStack Developer at Tejuino, Remote, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Key responsibilities
- Plan, develop, and deploy pixel-perfect web Applications used to leverage the marketing of different companies.
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
FrontEnd Developer at USA Global Market, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Key responsibilities
- Responsible for creating the administration system and web application for a prepaid payment system delivered to the sewer and electric public services of Bogota and Medellin Colombia.
Jun 2014, Nov 2015
Co-founder and Principal Engineer at Bool. Inc, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Key responsibilities
- Analyze software requirements, build and deliver web and mobile solutions for different clients as the Colombian Government.
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Key accomplishments
- Co-creator of BoolJS An open-source Javascript framework to build APIs using MVC architecture.
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
Software Developer at Skaphe, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Key responsibilities
- Build a FullStack web application to help a local customer locate their teams on-field and monitor the inventory each team used to execute their assigned tasks.
Oct 2019 - Present
BSc. Computer Science at University of London, Online - English
Jan 2012 - Jul 2014
Electronic Engineering at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, COL
Dec 2011.
Honorable mention at Santo Domingo Sabio School. Best score in the school at the “Saber 2011” national test.
Nov 2011.
Grand Order of the Founders Cross award. Golden shield category. "For his dedication and example in the development of academic activities." Decree No. 224 of 2011 Acacías, Meta.
Dec 2012.
2nd Place in XI Internal Programming Marathon, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.
Apr 2013
2nd Place, Space Apps Challenge Colombia, NASA.
Spanish
Native speaker.
English
Very good command.
Portuguese
Basic.
Apr 2017 - Present.
Co-organizer at GDLJS,
GDLJS is the JavaScript open community in Guadalajara, Mexico. With monthly meetups is recognized as one of the biggest open events in the city with common assistance of more than 100 JavaScripters.
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Key responsibilities
- Coordinate the team to bring the monthly event, including choosing the meetup content, sync with the different sponsors, and verify the accomplishments of the recurrent tasks.
- Ideate new events to get more qualified knowledge of the Javascript.
- The host of the event.
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Key accomplishments
- Launched the first event that joined the two most significant Javascript communities in Mexico, the EventLoop and the GDLJS in one place. Hosted in two locations with more than 250 attendees and the participation of recognized engineers in the industry.
- Help with the creation of GDLDevComms, the alliance of the city’s communities with the objective of grow the content delivered to the Guadalajara’s technology open communities.
- Developed with the GdlDevComms the PosaDev Conf 2017 - 2018, a free yearly one day conference covering general topics in the Technology field.