Aug 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Financial services , Billing

Dec 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · On-site

• As the Tech Lead of the Customer Portal team, I worked closely with Product and Design, to identify and prioritize solutions and drive execution.
• Technical Mentorship to the team.
• Develop features, and implement services, APIs, and integrations.
• Lead the activity of breaking down larger projects into smaller tasks.
• Identify cross-team dependencies and work with other teams to mitigate these.
• Lead the activity of breaking down larger projects into smaller tasks
• Responsible for awareness of other Team tech roadmaps and any conflicting priorities
• Identify tradeoffs and compromises and facilitate technical solutions
• Ensure technical solutions maintain system SLOs and meet security needs
• Responsible for identifying carrying costs of new systems before implementation
• Accountable for identifying opportunities to reduce system cost of ownership as part of the technical roadmap
• Regular contact points with other Tech Leads to identify cross-team dependencies, challenges, and hand-off points
• Actively mentored developers, reviewed code, and conducted pair programming and whiteboarding exercises.

Mar 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · New York, United States · Remote

• Then, Hearst Digital Studios. Now, Verizon Hearst Media Partners.
• Working at Complex Networks as part of Verizon Hearst Media Partners.
• Design the best architecture for the projects we develop, keep up to date on new technologies and choose the best tools for the apps.
• Develop features writing clean, maintainable, tested code.
• Define and coach my team about the git flow I have defined.
• Review PRs from other team members.
• All-around help checking logs and stepping in to fix issues as needed.
• Investigate and resolve performance issues.

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 · 8 mos · Bogotá · On-site

• Directed technology strategy and partnerships, leading to an 80% growth in platform performance and external relationships.
• Took charge of hiring the whole team that took the app from MVP to first release.
• Oversaw a team of engineers, designers and AQ during the first application launches.
• Provide visible leadership for the company within the technology community.
• Works in a consultative fashion with other department heads, such as marketing, production and operations as an advisor of technologies that may improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
• Introduced project management processes.
• Managed technology budget across R&D and operational projects.

Jul 2014 – Feb 2015 · 7 mos · Bogotá · On-site

• As a Chief Instructor at World Tech Makers, We're not only teaching people to develop software using Ruby On Rails technology, but also we're changing the mind of the people in Latin America.
• Everyone can learn how to develop software and create new quality software.

Oct 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Lead a group of Designers, from end developers , web developers, mobile developers using Agile.
• Meet with clients to define the projects scope, estimations, costs.
• Establish deadlines and goals and ensure these are completed with compliance.
• Review Pull Request to ensure implementation of company standards.
• Coach and train or get a someone to do that for members of the team if need it.
• Apply effective modification on the planning if any delay , and get new proposals to get the MVP on time.
• Review the quality of design and code before delivered to the client and ensure those are according to the client’s requirements.
• Evaluates performance of the team and recommends promotion, additional training or termination.

Aug 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

• 1. Develop features with the definition of Done assigned to them trying to get those on time to achieve team goals.
• 2. Ensure high quality of code.
• 3. Help the web developers assigned to give the best of them.
• 4. Contribute on the estimations and planning meeting.
• 5. Keep updated with the technology that is used on the company.
• 6. Contribute to the team lead on the quality & Process audit .

Jul 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

• 1. Develop features with the definition of Done assigned to them trying to get those on time to achieve team goals.
• 2. Contribute on the team on estimations ..
• 3. Keep updated with the technology that is used on the company.