Objective

Seeking a full time director, engineering manager, or technical lead positon that will allow me to continue to grow my skills and mentor other developers.

I currently have more than 11 years of freelance and professional development experience. More, I have been working with AWS, Terraform, full stack JavaScript frameworks, such as NextJs, for more than three years. My open source work has been contributions to two major React projects, react-calendar and react-hot-loader. Most recently, I lead the digital transformation of Canada's most popular giveaways, Tim Horton's Roll Up To Win, in 2020.

Experience

  • 2017-2019 Agile Thought

    Senior Consultant

    Fullstack engineer as part of a legacy transformation team that developed a custom React and C# ASP.NET Core WebAPI solution for PwC. The team was able to completely retrasnform the legacy solution in less than 40 weeks and increase efficency of core engineering principles:

    • 75% less code (compared to existing solution)
    • ≥ 90% code coverage - less bugs
    • Bi-weekly deployments with less operational overhead
    • Implemented with CQRS and Clean Architecture principles
  • 2015-2017 Mad Mobile

    Lead Developer & Operations

    Promoted in the first three months to development lead. Pioneered, developed, and architected ReactJS mobile/tablet enterprise application framework for multiple high profile clients and applications for Sysco Foods and Oracle. Serve as “hands-on” lead overseeing a team of 3 developers, while simultaneously contributing to development efforts on a daily basis. Additional responsibilities included:

    • interviewing new developers
    • design/architectural reviews
    • implementing and maintaining CI/CD processes
    • release management
    • level-of-effort estimates for new projects
    • SOC/PCI compliance preparation & remediation
    • Migrating baremetal infrastructure to AWS

    Solely responsible for introducing ReactJS into current environment, getting buy in from key stake holders and training team members on usage and functionality. Researched and present new tools and solutions for UI testing in automation, utilizing CI and the Selenium UI testing framework. Responsible for improving workflow by introducing GitFlow and building out new CI/CD processes using Jenkins pipelines. Introduced new tools to speed up mobile app development.

  • 2014 Freelance

    Independent Freelancer

    Various fullstack engineering projects, including minor website updates and seamless database and server migrations for various clients. Notable clients include:

  • 2012-2013 Accent-Technologies

    Full Stack Developer

    Maintenance and feature development for a large single page application written in MooTools, with C# and SQL Server 2008 backend. Proof of concept BackBone application. Redesigned existing API into a restful format. Microsoft Office and OpenXML development. iOS / Android application developed using Sencha Touch and ExtJS.

Language

Fluent in both English and Spanish; written and spoken.

Education

  • 2018 Scrum.org

    Professional Scrum Master I

    PSM I certification demonstrates a minimum ability to manage a product team effectively.

  • 2003-2007 Suncoast Highschool

    International Baccalaureate Program

    Diplomma program graduate with a focus in Computer Science, history, and Spanish language in addition to Florida graduate requirements. At the time of graduation Suncoast Highschool was ranked among top 10 high schools in the nation.

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • Node.JS
  • React
  • Angular
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
  • C#
  • Java
  • MySQL
  • Jenkins
  • NGINX
  • Bash
  • Docker
  • AWS

Hobbies

  • Movies
  • Racing
  • Beer
  • Travel
  • Music
  • Video Games
  • Open Source