Email
carlos.benavides@edify.cr
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Front End Developer with 7+ years of experience building web applications, delivering on time, on budget. Passionate about learning new technologies, and a team work player. Experience leading teams, finding business solutions, and assuring customer satisfaction.
Edify Software Consulting 2021-10-01 — Present
Technical Lead
Acting as Technical Lead for a mid-sized team. Working close to our partners to design and develop a web application to consume and display data related to K12 education, targeting districts leaders within the U.S.A.
Highlights
- Designing and developing a web application from scratch, including: - Requirements gathering, - Infrastructure and Technical stack decision, - Designing the team's composition, development's roadmap, methodology and strategy.
- Delivering a full high quality web application (MVP 1.0) on time/ on budget.
- Supporting our partners by designing and leading API updates resulting in improved performance and efficiency.
- Leading and mentoring developers (1:1s, Code Reviews, Career path assistance).
- Core Technologies: Nextjs, Typescript, Cypress, AWS (Amplify, Cognito, AppSync - GraphQL), SonarQube
Edify Software Consulting 2020-10-01 — 2021-09-01
Senior Software Engineer
Working as a Senior Front End Developer supporting the development and maintenance of a learning system/platform.
Highlights
- Improving the testing strategy/technique resulting in ~40% faster builds.
- Refactoring our GO application resulting in improved readability and maintainability.
- Core Technologies: EmberJs, PHP, AWS (EC2, S3), GO
Prodigious Costa Rica 2016-02-01 — 2020-09-01
Principal Front End Engineer
Working very close to our partners to provide, design and develop technical solutions to business needs.
Highlights
- Bank of America (https://www.bankofamerica.com/) - Led a group of developers (~10) during the re-design and develop of one of the multiple platforms.
- The Dow Chemical Company (https://www.dow.com/en-us) - Led a small group of developers (3) during the creation of new micro-sites, plus helping design and implement the analytics strategy across their sites.
- DaVita (https://www.davita.com/) - Working with a group of developers to design, and create their new web platform.
- BP Oil industry company (https://www.bp.com/) - Supporting their web platform for regular maintenance.
- Athenahealth (https://www.athenahealth.com/) - Supporting the web platform by providing regular maintenance of existing features.
- Core Technologies: Sitecore, AEM, Javascript, React, Angular
UNED 2016-02 — 2022-11
Computer Engineering
Bachelor
Software Engineering
- Javascript
- React
- HTML, CSS
- Accesibility
- SEO
- Testing
- Agile Methodologies
- Leadership
English
Advanced
Spanish
Native speaker
Italian
Proficient