Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Redmond, Washington, United States · Hybrid

• Built an education business serving 1,400+ enrolled developers; created 10+ hands-on .NET/Azure courses.
• Developed production-grade reference applications (full-stack e-commerce, microservices architecture, backend templates) demonstrating cloud-native patterns with Azure, Kubernetes, and modern .NET.
• Tech: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, .NET Aspire, PostgreSQL, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bicep, React, Stripe, Keycloak, Entra ID.

Jul 2019 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Redmond, WA

• Architected an Azure VM provisioning service to stream games with minimal latency from the cloud to any device
• Designed a distributed messaging library to streamline the communication across dozens of microservices in the cloud gaming platform
• Tech: C#, .NET, Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Terraform

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019 · 6 mos · Redmond, WA

• Implemented the Economy v2 Purchase API used across thousands of live titles on the PlayFab platform (5,000+ games, 2.5B player accounts), built for economies at hundreds of millions of active players scale.
• Tech: C#, .NET, Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps

Nov 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Redmond, WA

• Built the Microsoft Container Registry (mcr.microsoft.com) publishing system used by dozens of internal teams and serving millions of daily image pulls
• Expanded ACR availability to national/sovereign clouds (China, US Government)
• Tech: C#, .NET, Docker, Azure, PowerShell, Kubernetes, Linux, MSBuild

Jan 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Redmond, WA

• Modernized the build infrastructure from physical servers to cloud based CI/CD integrated to Azure DevOps, enabling multiple daily deployments vs. weekly and reducing build and validation time by 60%.
• Tools and Technologies
• C#, TypeScript, Node.js, Azure, PowerShell, MSBuild, Azure DevOps

Oct 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Redmond, WA

• Built a Portal extension framework and reference implementations used by dozens of Azure service teams
• Created an automated testing framework to reduce extension validation time
• Maintained CI infrastructure supporting Portal SDK releases and validations
• Tools and Technologies
• C#, .NET, TypeScript, Azure, PowerShell, Jenkins, Selenium, Node.js

Nov 2011 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Redmond, WA

• Developed an automated testing suite covering critical user workflows for Azure Portal
• Created diagnostic tools for customer issue resolution
• Led the end-to-end validation processes for major feature releases
• Tech Stack
• C#, .NET, TypeScript, Azure, PowerShell

Mar 2011 – Oct 2011 · 7 mos

• Connector/Net
• .Net Senior developer in the MySQL Connector/Net Team. MySQL Connector/Net is the main interface library used to connect .NET applications with MySQL Server databases.
• Responsibilities
• Design and code new features, implement bug fixes, unit testing, interview new developer candidates.
• Tools and technologies
• Visual Studio 2008/2010, .Net Framework 2.0/3.5/4.0, MySQL Server 5.x, Bazaar, NUnit, Test Driven.Net, Hudson, WiX, Sandcastle, Putty.

Oct 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Auda Enterprise Gold
• Development leader in the customization of Auda Enterprise Gold. Auda Enterprise Gold is a United Kingdom distributed service oriented application for vehicle claims management. Audatex is a worldwide industry leader in claims management solutions and the overall purpose of this project is to introduce the application to the Latin American market. The application is the new generation of the current applications developed by Audatex in the past currently being used in Mexico, Central and South America.
• The application is built on top of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0/3.5 with Oracle and VistaDB as backend. The project dynamics involve constant interaction with a development team in the UK.
• Responsibilities:
• Requirements gathering, development, testing, deployment.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, ASMX Web Services, Oracle 10g, Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, Internet Information Services 6.0, VistaDB.

Dec 2008 – Aug 2009 · 8 mos

• Grupo Bursátil Mexicano (GBM) Distributed Environment
• Participation in the design and development of GBM’s Distributed Environment. This is the set of services and components that represent the core building blocks for all future applications of this customer. The distributed environment includes services for Data Access, Message Brokering, Error Handling, Instrumentation, Configuration Management and WCF Web Services Management. I was responsible for the design and development of the Message Brokering services, which are WCF implementations that allow any application to interact with message brokers like SonicMQ and SQL Server Service Broker. Client applications communicate with the message broker through the WCF service without knowing which particular implementation is actually running on server side. The message brokering infrastructure represents the core of GBM strengths.
• Responsibilities:
• Requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2008, WCF, SonicMQ, SQL Server 2008 Service Broker, Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, Internet Information Services 7.0, Windows Activation Services (WAS).

Mar 2008 – Nov 2008 · 8 mos

• Fondo de Fondos SIIFF
• Participation in the design and development of the Sistema Integral de Informacion del Fondo de Fondos, a SharePoint Server 2007 intranet/extranet solution that allows Fondo de Fondos, the biggest investment funds institution in México City, to control all their business process. This solution involves the use of InfoPath forms, as well as ASP.NET pages, statistical charts, reports and workflows.
• Responsibilities:
• Requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Office SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath 2007, Visual Studio 2008, Workflow Foundation, Web Services.
• Next Web
• Presented the Silverlight technology to local customers, as a partnership between Ascenzo Consulting and Microsoft México to promote the use of Silverlight in the country. This then conducted to starting small Silverlight projects with those customers. Designed and developed the OEM Image Strip, that shows newspaper logos and previews of the main page of each newspaper (http://oem.com.mx). Also, designed and developed the El Universal News Reader Widget, which is used to show latest news taken from El Universal website RSS Feeds, and then visitors can copy the widget to their sites.
• Responsibilities:
• Requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, deployment.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 2.0.
• Semarnat Numeralia Intranet/Extranet Portal
• Designed and build the Numeralia Portal for Semarnat, a government institution in Mexico City. This is a SharePoint Server 2007 portal used to store InfoPath 2007 forms that track the Numeralia business process of the institution.
• Responsibilities:
• Solution design, development, testing, deployment.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Office SharePoint Server 2007, Infopath 2007, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005.

Jan 2007 – Sep 2007 · 8 mos

• MSGuayaquil Website
• Design and development of www.msguayaquil.com, a website created to share the best .NET related resources for the Latin American and Spanish developer community. The site offers PowerPoint presentations, tutorials, white papers, demos, code examples, forums, blogger articles, a job board, screencasts and event announcements.
• Responsibilities:
• Customize Telligent Community Server 2007 to fit our specific needs, create a Silverlight based video library to show screencasts, add a job board, improve performance for mass email sending, constantly monitor and fix any possible trouble, update the front page for any announcement to de community, create contests to motivate the community participation in the site.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2005/2008, SQL Server 2005, Telligent Community Server, Microsoft Expression Encoder.

Jul 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Advanced Application Installers
• Create advanced customized installers for several of the company´s applications, which allow an easy deployment of them into customer´s servers and workstations.
• Responsibilities:
• Deploy .NET assemblies, register COM+ components, obfuscate assemblies, create/upgrade customer´s database, register SQL Server CLR Objects, set configuration values to Windows Registry and .NET configuration files, create installers remotely on a dedicated build machine.
• Tools and Technologies:
• InstallShield 12, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, Dotfuscator, SQL Server 2005.
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning 2.0
• Design and development of Rough Cut 2.0, a desktop application that allows the scheduling of company resources, like inventory, to meet the market´s demand on time. Features hierarchy grids, attractive UI, tabbed navigation and interactive column charts.
• More info: http://www.atlasplanningsuite.com/rough_cut_capacity_planning.shtml
• Responsibilities:
• Architecture, development process selection, development, task scheduling, deployment.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2005, Infragistics NetAdvantage, SQL Server 2005, InstallShield 12, Team Foundation Server 2005, Dotfuscator, Microsoft Project, Enterprise Library, Smart Client Software Factory.
• Planning Portal 3.6
• Development of Planning Portal 3.6, a web application used to share forecasts of company´s resources (like sales, inventory, human resources) with all interested parties inside or outside the company, via intranet or internet. Features hierarchical grids and several charts to easily modify forecasts, which is very useful for sales people and customers.
• More info: http://www.atlasplanningsuite.com/planning_portal.shtml
• Responsibilities:
• Development, task scheduling, deployment, support.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2005, Infragistics NetAdvantage, SQL Server 2000/2005, Farpoint Spread, Intersoft Webcombo, Project.

Jul 2005 – Jun 2006 · 11 mos

• Human Resources System
• Design and Development of a Human Resources system, a desktop application used to control entry/exit times of employees to office. The application receives entry/exit times from biometric machines, using files as interface, stores them in a database and then allows to calculate the amount of hours worked by each employee. The application also records reference data from employees and manages the company´s department hierarchy.
• Responsibilities:
• Architecture, design, development, lead and coach a support developer, task scheduling, customer support.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Project Server, Enterprise Library.

Jan 2005 – Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Gave multiple talks on Microsoft technologies to evangelize the use of them on the local developer community.

Dec 2003 – Feb 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Development of several modules of a managerial information system, which includes modules of Accounting, Purchases, Invoicing, Receivables, Payables, Banks, etc. Very similar to an ERP, but with less features and integration.
• Responsibilities:
• Design, development, task scheduling.
• Tools and Technologies:
• Visual Studio 2003, SQL Server 2000, Project, Enterprise Library, Component One Studio.