Universitat de Lleida

Director of Engineering at Toptal

As a Director of Engineering, I'm making sure every client entering Toptal is able to find the perfect developers for their projects.I organize teams of developers and I make sure both the developers and the clients have an outstanding experience working with us.

Toptal

Director Of Engineering

- Maintained and improved a platform for online marketing and advertisements.- Implemented SMS sending and receiving via Twilio.- Worked with Mblox—one of the most popular providers for handling SMS and MMS.- Supported several Linux services to process queues, perform periodical tasks, and more.- Created several reports (both the UI and back-end) and ensured that they were calculated quickly by using caching systems.Technologies: PHP, Java, Bash, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

SMS Masterminds

LAMP Software Engineer and DevOps

- Taking care of the Toptal community in Spain, making sure that everybody enjoys being part of it.- Organizing some regional events and helping other members to do that.- Helping new Toptalers with our workflow and with their initial steps.- Introducing Toptal to some future candidates and making sure they know the benefits of the company and how our process works.

Community Lead

- Developed an e-learning platform with different roles (teacher, student, administrator, and others). - Implemented a WebRTC-based interface to provide real-time online video calls between 2 users. - Worked with a time scheduler to allow teachers and students to schedule classes. - Implemented a profit optimization tool to automatically associate teachers and students according to their price. - Provided a UI to download automatically generated PDFs and notes after the class ends. - Integrated with several APIs (Collins, Bing Translator, and more).Technologies: Django, Python, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, WebRTC

Edoglobe (via Toptal)

Language Learning Platform (Website + App)

- Handled, as part of the Toptal screening team, all types of applicants in the Developer Vertical.- Vetted candidates so that only the best of the best (top 3%) got approved.- Helped those approved candidates to shape their profile into the standard Toptal format.- Improved the processes and preparing new testing materials.Technologies: PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Perl, Objective-C, and more.

Technical Screener

- Developed a MVP for the Neon startup. - Helped to build out a public website where you can take a personality test and it provides a score according to International Personality Item Pool. - Created a Google Chrome extension to collect data from user behavior and help the app provide more personalized information. - Implemented a credit-rewarding system to compensate users for the value of their data. - Built a solid back-end API that's able to be accessed from any extension, application, or website. - Wrote a simple administration interface to access the information stored by the app in a clean and fast format.Technologies: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Google Chrome Extensions

NEON TheNeonID

Full-Stack Web Developer (w/ Chrome Extension Knowledge)

- Developed and maintained some REST API endpoints. - Scraped some websites to provide API formatted responses of some of the HTML code contained. - Caching-content scraped to database and improved the performance for some API endpoints. - Properly used authentication and user roles. - Properly returned API error responses and notified via email the back-end team with debug information in how to fix them.Technologies: Django, Python, Django REST Framework

Bauxy (via Toptal)

Back-End Engineer

Toptal is an elite network of freelancers that enables businesses to connect with the top 3% of software engineers and designers in the world.

Software Engineer

- Maintained and implemented new features to all websites of the Ocom group and LeaseWeb.- Created plugins for Drupal.Integrated with specific marketing tools such as Marketo, Google Analytics, and others.Managed internal tools and created APIs with Symfony.- Integrated with new products provided by the company and provided the full eCommerce platform to allow customers to buy services.Technologies: PHP, Symfony, Drupal, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

LeaseWeb / Ocom

DevOps Software Engineer

- Worked in several web and mobile projects as a freelance developer.- Developed some plugins for WordPress websites to show customizable Flash objects or other dynamic contents.- Developed the Puzzle Maniac Android game in Unity3D.- Developed several arcade and puzzle games for Android in native Java.- Developed internal Android applications for tracking some parameters using QR codes in private exposition rooms.- Developed Google Chrome extensions to manipulate browser history and cookies.Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, WordPress, Java, Android, iOS, Unity3D

Freelancer

Software Developer

- Worked in an online shop's SaaS startup platform and provided the full infrastructure required to automatically create and maintain the online shop.- Set up an automatically managing DNS and also set up the Apache Hosts every time a customer created a new shop.- Developed a full-featured back-end to customize all aspects in the online shops like design customization, domains association, products, categories, makes, static pages, and more.- Created full-featured front-end shops that were very customizable according to customer expectations like allowing them to drag and drop design blocks.- Integrated the platform with online services such as PayPal or other Spanish or Argentinian local payment methods.- Developed an official mobile application for Android and iOS to allow customers to customize their shop settings or see recent orders from their phones.- Developed private tools to get statistics on our clients, to see how much they pay, how much they sell, and so on.Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Linux, Bash, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a>

Xopie Tiendas Online

Frontend/Backend web developer

- Provided a voting platform for the client-side using Java Applets.- Ciphered individually all the clients inputs with ElGamal and elliptic curves encryption before being sent to the server.- Store ciphered information in secure a file system.- Provided server management scripts and tools, completely integrated with Java Tomcat to reorganize, decipher, and count votes.- Made a stable and robust platform able to send and receive information through TCP connections directly from the clients' applets to a Java server.Technologies: Java, Tomcat, Java Applets, HTML, JavaScript