Jul 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• BairesDev is an innovative technology services company that specializes in Product Development, Software Outsourcing, Testing & IT Staff Augmentation solutions.
• With teams composed of the most talented engineers of the market (Top 1%), BairesDev provides companies worldwide with comprehensive and innovative technology solutions.
• Working as a Sr. Java/Scala Software Engineer for Abra (Liquidity).
• Abra is the only global cryptocurrency app that allows you to securely buy, store, and invest in more than 200 cryptocurrencies in one place instantly.
• Automated testing using junit and cucumber (java).
• Development a service to integrate and trade using multiple crypto exchange sites like Bittrex. (java, spring)
• Development of a (us) domestic Wire module integrating with SynapseFI. (Scala)
• Development of a (us) ACH module integrating with SynapseFI and Plaid (Scala)
• Maintenance of liquidity options

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos

• A program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) implemented by CEAMSO (Center for environmental and social studies - Paraguay) with the objective of strengthening the capacity of key government institutions, increasing transparency and fighting corruption.
• Development of the Open Data platform, that provides information on the state and use of the “Fund for Excellence in Education and Research” (Fonacide) destined to the infrastructure of educational institutions.
• (Winner of the 2015 InnovandoPy hackathon).
• Technologies: Python, Django, Semantic-UI, AngularJs, Leaflet, Postgresql

Dec 2013 – Jun 2018 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• eLumen is a higher-ed, assessment and curriculum management system that gives insight into each students’ engagement and progress while satisfying the growing demands of accreditation and other compliance mandates.
• Working closely with an agile developer team in Paraguay, responsible for delivering various solutions and improvements to the main platform of eLumen.
• Lead a team of four developers, focused on reducing the technical debt of the core application, including optimization, refactoring and developing good practices.
• Establish good coding practices and design patterns.
• Optimization of reporting star schema. (Mysql)
• Improve the overall application performance. (jmeter, jprofiler)
• Researching for tooling to improve the development process of the core development teams. (gulp, dcevm, intellij)
• Finding and fixing memory leaks and performance bottlenecks. (jprofiler)
• Lead the breakdown of the core application into microservices, including design patterns, technology, workflows and automation, moving from prototype to production.
• Develop a POC and a reference implementation (Spring cloud + Netflix OSS).
• Deploy to AWS (Docker and ECS).
• Automate the infrastructure creation (Terraform).
• Automate the deployments (Jenkins).
• Lead a team of four developers that worked exclusively on the integration of the platform with Learning Management Systems (Moodle, Canvas LMS, Desire2Learn) compliant with the Learning Tools Interoperability standard.
• Other responsibilities included Devops, research and development, code reviews, mentoring, and training.
• Technologies: Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, MySQL, MongoDB, Python, Django, AWS, AWS ECS, Javascript, Terraform, AngularJS, Tomcat

Feb 2013 – Jul 2013 · 5 mos

• Juky Paraguay is an Organization focused on research and development activities in order to support projects that involve the responsible insertion of ICTs in society. Sugar Labs is a community-run software project whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of Sugar, an open source desktop environment and learning platform.
• Build a custom Linux distribution (ARM) for the XO laptop used in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Caacupé (Paraguay).
• Port applications used by teachers from gtk2 to gtk3.
• Create and maintain an rpm repository.
• Backport fixes of Sugar applications (activities).
• Build the distribution to be compatible with the ARM architecture.
• Contribute to the OSS Sugarlabs projects.