My CV

Experience

• Dec 2019 - present, The Agile Monkeys (Santiago, Chile) Currently a Senior Software Engineer, having performed consultancy for several organizations and part of the Booster Framework development team.

  Key learnings:

  • Serverless and event-driven architectures
  • Event-sourcing and CQRS
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • Cloud-native technologies
  • Working with a fully distributed team

• Feb 2018 - Dec 2019, Cencosud S.A. (Santiago, Chile) Was Senior Software Developer at the R+D department of the Advanced Analytics division of the third largest listed retail company in Latin America.

  Key learnings:

  • Working directly with data scientists and UX researchers
  • Containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • CI/CD practices
  • Microsoft Azure cloud services and Azure DevOps

• May 2017 - Feb 2018, Registrar SW SpA (Santiago, Chile) Developed software for Chilean government institutions and healthcare startups.

  Key learnings:

  • Functional requirement specification
  • Prolog and logic programming

• Sep 2014 - May 2017, Mentor Graphics (Santiago, Chile) Developer for PartQuest.com a cloud-based microservices application using agility and extreme programming methodologies.

  Key learnings:

  • Working with a distributed team (half the team in the USA, the other in Chile)
  • Putting in practice agile methodologies such as Scrum and TDD
  • Scala and functional programming
  • AWS and cloud infrastructure

• Nov 2010 - Sep 2014, Mobile Solutions (Santiago, Chile) Part of the team responsible of designing and developing from the ground up the back and front-end of Pago Maxtron, a micropayment platform that enables users in Chile and Latin America to make purchases online through local payment methods.

  Key learnings:

  • Designing RESTful APIs
  • Building complete web applications using an MVC framework (CakePHP)
  • Familiarization with the micropayments ecosystem
  • Integration with different payment processors

• Aug 2009 - Nov 2010, Nuwit (Santiago, Chile) In charge of adapting the Magento CMS for Chile's largest bookstore chain and developing Windows Mobile applications to be used by employees of transportation and retail companies during QA and production processes.

  Key learnings:

  • Customizing open source software to meet client needs

Key Technologies

Programming languages

• TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6), Java, Scala, Python, PHP, Prolog (SWI-Prolog)

Frameworks

• Booster, Express, CakePHP, AngularJS, Django, Akka HTTP, Lift

Other

• Databases (Relational and NoSQL)
• Containers (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Serverless compute (Lambda, Azure Functions)
• Shell scripting
• Version control (Git, SVN)
• CI/CD (GitLab, CircleCI, Azure DevOps)

Education

• Fall 2009 - Spring 2010, University of Chile

  Engineering in Computer Science (GPA: 6.0/7.0)

  Dissertation topic: "A Methodology to Extract and Classify Twitter User Interests for Recommendation Applications"

• Fall 2002 - Fall 2009, University of Chile

  Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Personal information

• Citizenship Chilean

• Languages

  • Spanish (mother tongue)
  • English (fluent, TOEFL iBT score 108/120 (Reading: 30/30, Listening: 27/30, Speaking: 28/30, Writing: 23/30))
  • Portuguese (basic communication skills)