Experienced software engineer with over 15 years developing web applications and backend systems. The Java ecosystem has been my primary focus and area of expertise throughout my career. Additionally, I possess proficiency across a diverse range of backend and frontend technologies, including .NET framework development, PHP-based systems, Ruby applications, advanced SQL database management, TypeScript implementations, React component development, and numerous other modern development tools and frameworks.
Edify Software Consulting 2023-11 — 2024-08
Greatminds. Maintenance and development of new features for existing Next.js and Nest.js applications. Multiple teams and applications support
Highlights
- Led and coordinated multiple teams to develop and support Nexts.js/Nest.js applications.
- Monitored and provided support related to AWS services.
- Maintained and improved GitHub Actions workflows.
- Collaborated with different teams in the coordination and development of new features involving multiple applications.
- Performed code reviews and provided feedback to other developers, looking to improve the quality of the code and development associated processes.
- Worked on the diagnostics and fix of production bugs.
- Actively participated in different agile ceremonies from Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
2018-06 — 2023-05
CourseKata. Development of a new Spring Boot application to serve dynamic content through LTI, using a combination of Common Cartridge and GitHub Apps.
Highlights
- Helped with the design and development of customer's application core features, from zero to PoC, to a mature system.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to translate their requests into application requirements, providing technical insight and negotiating when needed.
- Performed code reviews and provided feedback to other developers, looking to improve the quality of the code and development associated processes.
- Worked on the diagnostics and fix of production bugs.
- Mentored other developers and guided them in their carrer path process.
- Actively worked on the documentation of processes, decisions, design and technology related details
- Developed complex SQL queries to extract reports from the system's generated data
- Participated in different agile ceremonies from Scrum and Scrumban frameworks.
2012-06 — 2018-05
Collaborated in the design, implementation and maintenance of multiple applications, working on several projects, such as EdReady, Course Library, Hotchalk, CoreSpring, PrepU and NYU Emissions
Highlights
- Spring Framework / Spring Boot
- JUnit
- LTI 1.1/1.3
- External system integrations: Learnosity, JupyterHub, GitHub
- Docker / Compose
- HTML/CSS/Javascript
- EmberJS
- AngularJS
- Gradle / Maven
- Backbone.js
- Bootrsrap, Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Webpack
- Ruby/Rails
- MySQL Server / MariaDB
- PostgreSQL
- Jasmine / PhantomJS / Mocha
- PHP
- Symfony
- CakePHP
- AWS
- GitHub Apps
Freelance developer/consultant 2010-07 — 2012-05
As a freelance developer I worked with a couple of companies. One of them was Eldomo comunicación, a communication agency where I helped developing PHP websites using the Symfony framework, and doing maintenance for the previous developed websites. The other company was OD Servicios, focused on consultancy and software development. I spent some time on the business intelligence area, and I also was involved on some development projects, the bigger one being a hotel management software.
Highlights
- PHP
- Symfony framework
- MySQL Server
- MS SQL Server 2008
- MS Analysis Services 2008
- .Net framework(VB/C#)
Eventbywire 2008-05 — 2010-05
Eventbywire was a webcasting service company located in the US, focused mostly on the streaming of funerals, weddings, graduations, and family events in general. I was in charge of all the development process, using PHP for the web related development, and .Net framework and Adobe Flex for the streaming and utilities applications.
Highlights
- PHP
- .Net framework (VB/C#)
- Adobe Flex
- Flash and Windows Media Server
- MySQL Server
CODISA Software Corp. 2007-01 — 2008-04
I worked as business intelligence consultant setting up and maintaining environments on companies like Dos Pinos, BAC-Credomatic, RadioShack, among others. In the process, I also have to develop some small .Net framework tools for the importing process and to automate some required common tasks. At the end of my time here, I spent some time giving technical support.
Highlights
- MS SQL Server 2000-2008
- MS Analysis Services
- MS Data Transformation Packages/Integration Services
- .Net Framework (VB/C#)
- Support/Customer relationship management
Universidad of Costa Rica 2004 — 2007
Top Honors Graduate
Highest rank on BS Computer Science career for year 2005
Universidad of Costa Rica Entrance Exam, 12th position
Backend Development
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring Security
- Spring Data JDBC
- Hibernate
- Gradle
- JUnit
- Node.js
- Nest.js
- SQL
- REST
- AWS
- PHP / Symfony
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails
- Docker
Web Development
- HTML 5
- CSS / SASS
- Javascript / TypeScript
- Bootstrap
- jQuery
- React / Next.js
- Testing Library
- Grunt
- Gulp
- Bower
- EmberJS
- AngularJS
- Jasmine / PhantomJS / Mocha
AWS Services
- RDS
- EC2
- Elastic Beanstalk
- SQS / SNS
- S3
- CloudWatch
- Lambda
- ECR
Databases
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB / DocumentDB
- DynamoDB