Ariel Scarpinelli

AI Transormation Consultant

Digital Means

Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 10 months)

Leading the design and implementation for different AI augmented digital products for healthcare, including the development of a RAG for querying a medical knowledge base using pg_vector, LangChain and ChatbotUI; and a few mobile applications using Vision Transformers.

Sr Engineering Manager

IPSY

Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 7 months)

Leading multiple software development fully remote teams across LATAM, US and India. Quarterly planning and following of teams OKRs. Collaboration with business stakeholders in multidisciplinary teams to define product evolutions. Definition and follow up of engineering driven projects like tech stack modernizations. People management helping with their career development and performance reviews. As usual, some hands on coding, at least for POCs and contributions to optimize the delivery pipeline.

Main technologies: TypeScript, NextJS, React, Contentful, GraphQL, Kotlin

Associate professor for the subject "75.59 - Concurrent Programming"

Facultad de Ingeniería UBA

Mar 2021 - Current (5 years 8 months)

Many challenges arise during the design and implementation of concurrent and distributed programs. The aim of this course is to understand those challenges, and to see techniques for tackling them.
At the end of the course students are expected to understand the conceptual foundations of concurrent programming, and a variety of effective ways of structuring concurrent and distributed programs.

Main technologies: Rust, Tokio, Rayon, Actix, Elixir

Teaching assistant for the subject "7531 - Languages Theory"

Facultad de Ingeniería UBA

Aug 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 8 months)

The goal of this class is to introduce the study of the programming languages in their context, not only considering syntax and semantics; but from pragmatics. The goal is to let the students to know how to express different concepts in different programming languages and figure out for which purposes is more useful a particular language. The stronger focus is also to introduce students into the declarative computing model, particularly concepts of functional programming.

Main technologies: Scala, Haskell

Staff Engineer & Team Lead

Khoros

Sep 2014 - Apr 2022 (7 years 8 months)

Leading multiple teams +20 people; using agile methodologies. Coordinating the work among remote development teams, devops, product management and product support. Working in the development of the Khoros
enterprise social media management platform; from React based frontends to Java/Dropwizard microservices storing data into
Cassandra and ElasticSearch, and data processing pipelines using Kafka and Spark.

Main technologies: Java, Dropwizard, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, RedShift, Scala, Finagle, GraphQL, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting

Java Architect

Globant

Feb 2013 - Sep 2014 (1 year 8 months)

Working on site at Google as Application Engineer, supporting its Finance Datawarehouse using
BigQuery and internal tools based on MapReduce. ETL development on special Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) version modified to suppport internal Google architecture. Development of a Codereview tool for Pentaho using AngularJS and AppEngine.

Main technologies: Hadoop like, AngularJS

Technology Director

Cactus

Aug 2011 - Feb 2013 (1 year 7 months)

Implementation of company wide processes with tools such as Redmine and GitLab; and Agile
methodologies. Work on presales performing project analysis and estimations, and contacting local
and foreign potential new customers. Software developers and QA analysts recruiting and
management. Selection and following of third party freelance developers. Daily project follow up
and software architecture decisions making. Project timing and costs control. Hacker injections and
proof of concept project building. Infrastructure management.

Main technologies: PHP, Yii, Zend, AWS, EC2, Swift, Cordova, Android Java, MySQL, ActionScript, Adobe AIR

Software Architect

TeraCode

Oct 2008 - Jul 2011 (2 years 10 months)

Architecture guidelines definition for the Rich Client area of the company (targeting mobile, HTML5 and desktop frontend apps). Performance optimizations development for different projects. Worked as project and technical leader on many projects both mobile and web. Special focus on product development for tech startups. Technical interviews and evaluation of candidates for the
recruiting area. Project estimations for the presales area.

Main technologies: Java, Wicket, Flex, Android, Objective C

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Solo Software Engineer

Praemium Financial Research

Nov 2005 - Aug 2008 (2 years 10 months)

Praemium provided financial analysis tools for the capital markets on Argentina. Worked on Product definition and design. Development, testing and maintenance of the tools and the company web site. Special focus on PHP based web scrapping developments for the data input. Frontend
development using Adobe Flex with charting tools.

Main technologies: Flex, PHP, MySQL

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IT Analyst

Southern Group Inc

Apr 2003 - Mar 2004 (1 year)

Design and development of the company internal process management application on PHP. Worked
on common IT tasks such as computer assembling, software updating, automatic backup setup and
help desk support. VOIP infrastructure management.

Main technologies: VB6, PHP, MySQL, Asterix

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