Software Engineer with significant years of experience using a wide array of tools and technologies to plan, design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and support globally distributed internet applications at large and low scale.
Exhibits the ability to take on non-routine projects and learn and integrate new technologies.
Recognized as a team player, dependable, adaptable, reliable, flexible, business-oriented, committed, and compassionate.
SPECIALTIES:
► Trust & Safety: building and integrating technical solutions to combat child abuse in media platforms and protect users and employees from harmful content.
► Large Scale Systems: billions of digital assets (images and videos) gobbling petabytes of data.
► Fintech: Substantial time spent with online billing systems for subscriptions, renewals, shopping carts, US and international taxation, foreign currencies, and billing systems. Integrated several payment providers. Credit card tokenization. Payment improvements (increases ;)) with several levels of grandfathering and complexity.
► Integration of 3rd party services like Safer (by Thorn), Intercom, Avalara, Stripe, Amazon Payments, PayPal, and others. Familiar with using/integrating 3rd party services via APIs (REST, SOAP, ...) through thin clients or complete SDKs.
► Globalization (g11n): Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n). Foreign currency and taxes.
► Backend and Middleware for highly distributed web applications and asynchronous processing.
► Solid knowledge of relational and other data stores like NoSQL (DynamoDB) and Graph (Amazon Neptune).
► Hands-on experience using AWS serverless services like Lambda, S3, Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS, Simple Notification Service, Elastic Compute, container management, and more at a large scale.
► Currently proficient in PHP (modern and old). Enough knowledge of JavaScript to understand what's happening in nodejs apps and some modern frontend. Open to learning new languages if motivated and given the time and resources.
► Has been interacting with QA teams on full QA cycles for years. And is familiar with unit, functional, integration testing, and continuous integration and delivery.
► Bilingual. He was born and raised immersed in the Spanish language and culture. He has lived in the US for almost half his life and can legally work in the US, the European Union, and Colombia.
Currently working remotely from the Pacific North West in the US, his cats share their house with him, his lovely wife, and teen sons.
