Germán Chaparro
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Computer Scientist, Team Leader, Machine Learning passionate and Agile Methodologies advocate
British Columbia, Canada

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Starting at USD150K/year

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  • Amazon.com
    Technical Program Manager
    Amazon.com
    Jul 2017 - Jun 2020 (3 years)
    Canada Area My main responsibility was to own and drive the Financial Ledger and Accounting System Hub's (FLASH) projects. The most relevant work was: * Have successfully launched more than 100 projects in 3 years, enabling Amazon teams, such as Amazon Prime, Alexa, Prime Video, Amazon Music, Kindle and Retail, from around the world (North America, EU, India, China, Japan and LATAM) to meet their accounting requirements. * Maintained a high quality bar on Amazon accounting platform integrations by assessing more than 100 technical designs from teams onboarding to the accounting platforms. I also reviewed and gave feedback on hundreds lines of code within configuration files, monitored tests processes and authorized production launches. * Re
  • Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    IT Service Owner - Engineering Manager
    Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    Feb 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 4 months)
    In this role I owned the IT services supporting the corporate products Derivatives and Special Trading Operations. My featured work was: * Advised IT VP on choosing the trading engine technology to be used in the upcoming years at the exchange. I assessed from the technical and business perspective 4 alternatives presented by providers from all around the world. I created several comparison charts and tables that helped the company to choose the current trading system. * Lead the design, construction and launch of the IT platforms that flawlessly supported the issue of shares for several nationwide companies such as ECOPETROL (biggest oil company in Colombia). The issue of shares using the solutions I built during that year reached the orde
  • Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    Information Technology System Architect
    Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    May 2015 - Feb 2016 (10 months)
    During this job, my main responsibility was to define the trading systems architecture and roadmap according to the organization's needs. The outstanding achievements were: * Creating the product's roadmap that led to creating several company wide projects such as acquiring a new trading platform version and acquiring and customizing a smart trading screen platform to be used by traders. * Analyzed the trading platforms' and integration services' behavior to detect points of failure and fix them. The analysis and fixes that I did maintained trading platform availability up to 99.9% during that period of time. * Guided IT architects and development teams to build solutions according to the defined IT architecture. The guidance enabled the IT
  • Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Lecturer
    Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Jul 2011 - Nov 2011 (5 months)
    * Lecture the courses: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization in the Multimedia Engineering program to more than 70 students. * Supervised students in the development of C++ programs based on mathematical models to build Computer graphics tools and basic software games.
  • Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    Software Engineering Manager
    Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    Mar 2011 - Apr 2015 (4 years 2 months)
    My main responsibility was to lead a 12 software engineers team in charge of building, evolving and maintaining the corporate integration services and the company's portal web. The featured work was: * The team maintained more than 50 integration services that supported the interaction between company's internal platforms and enabled electronic trading via FIX protocol. * I managed more than 30 small, medium and big size IT projects, by syncing activities, resources, deliverables and launch plans. * I coached the team in software construction best practices. The coaching increased the software's code maintainability, and accelerated the building process by 20%. * I coached company wide IT teams on Scrum methodology, which started the compan
  • Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    Senior Software Engineer
    Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
    Oct 2007 - Mar 2011 (3 years 6 months)
    During this time, I was in charge of building software components oriented to enable electronic trading in Colombia. My featured achievements were: * Enabled electronic trading for equities and derivatives in Colombia's market, by designing and developing software adapters to connect the exchange's trading system to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using C++. * Enabled electronic trading for the fixed income market in Colombia by designing and building the full integration layer between the traders, the exchange's trading engine and the exchange's back-office platforms. I used C ++, Java and TIBCO BusinessWorks as tools. * Enabled international trading between Colombia, Chile and Peru stock exchanges by designing and developing integration
  • Assist Consultores
    Software Consultant
    Assist Consultores
    Oct 2005 - Oct 2007 (2 years 1 month)
    As a consultant, I was working with several clients to solve domain specific business problems. My goal was to design, build and launch software targeting to solve their issues. My relevant activities were: * Developed multiple modules for the corporate web portal of the Harbor Society of Buenaventura, using J2EE in IBM’s Rational Application Developer. * I designed and developed automated processes for scaling the mobile phones’ sale and activation activities for the largest mobile provider in Colombia with IBM’s Websphere Integration Developer * Taught the Object Oriented Programming and Web Development courses to the company’s clients.
  • Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Lecturer
    Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Jul 2004 - Nov 2007 (3 years 5 months)
    * Lecture the courses: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization in the Multimedia Engineering program to more than 70 students. * Supervised students in the development of C++ programs based on mathematical models to build Computer graphics tools and basic software games.
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    Software Engineer
    Paradigma SAS
    Mar 2004 - Oct 2005 (1 year 8 months)
    My main focus was to solve technical problems in one of the biggest telcos in Colombia (Telefónica Telecom Colombia). The most relevant work was: * Designed and developed a standard platform to generate the billing spools. The spools were used across all the regions in Colombia and standardized the bill's look and fill nationwide. I used C++ and Oracle. * Designed and developed the call center's administration platform. Built in JAVA.
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  • The University of Manchester
    MSc Advanced Computer Science
    The University of Manchester
    Sep 2013 - Sep 2014 (1 year 1 month)
    Major Subjects: Machine Learning, Text Mining, Parallel Programming, Computer Vision Dissertation: Online Random Forest. Construction and evaluation of a machine learning model based on on-line decision trees to learn from data streams in real time. Developed in Java.
  • Universidad de los Andes
    PG Dip Computer Software Engineering
    Universidad de los Andes
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2011 (1 year 1 month)
    Major Subjects: Enterprise and Integration Architectures, Internet Technologies (Java EE), Project Management, Software Analysis and Design. Final Project: Optimisation of the credit process for a bank. Tools: IBM WebSphere Integration Developer (WID), IBM WebSphere Process Server (WPS), IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD), IBM WebSphere Portal Server
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Jan 1998 - Apr 2004 (6 years 4 months)
    Major Subjects: Programming, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Digital Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Image Processing. Dissertation: Object Collector Autonomous Vehicle. A real robot able to collect specific coloured objects. Microchip PIC programmed in C++ and Assembler
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    Best Dissertation of The Year
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    Graduation Thesis: Meritorious
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    Awarded Teacher