Javier Romero Email & Phone Number

Dallas, US

• In 2021, I co-founded Simplified Web Solutions to enable businesses to leverage technology to serve their clients better. As a solutions architect, I have a multifaceted role that involves transforming ideas into.
• Unraveling user journeys and technical requirements to form the basis of our proposed solutions.
• Identify technology limitations and strategically circumvent them to ensure seamless solution execution.
• Creating proof-of-concepts to validate and align our solutions with client objectives.Key Projects include:
• Developing a data scraping system for high-profile sites, considering challenges like rate limiting, authentication, and data reliability.
• Implementing a comprehensive GPS tracking solution to enhance client operations.

Los Angeles, US

Palo Alto, CA, US

• In my role at VMware, I undertook a variety of responsibilities that contributed to both the company's goals and the broader open-source community:
• Maintained the Cloud Native Buildpacks OSS project, ensuring efficient operation and consistent updates.
• Monitored the health and progress of various open-source projects, identifying areas for improvement or further development.
• Bridged the gap between commercial offerings and open-source contributions, ensuring alignment and balanced growth.
• Actively provided mentorship through the Google Summer of Code and other mentorship programs to support emerging talent in the industry.
• Strategized the growth of the open-source community, encouraging active participation and contribution.I have utilized a wide range of technologies and tools:

Fort Worth, Texas, US

• Responsibilities:
• Address historical issues with business-critical transactional systems.
• Implement IVR systems, greatly reducing customer service overhead.
• Implement large-scale integration tests in order to improve the overall quality of internal systems.
• Migrate from the use of commercial products to OSS alternatives.
• Set standards and improvements for development processes and technologies.Technologies: Java, Groovy, Kotlin, JBoss, WildFly Spring Boot, Liquibase, AWS, Android, Twilio

Dallas, TX, US

• A lead software engineer working on distributing media content to the masses via a highly customizable platform used by the most popular brands on your mobile device.Responsibilities:
• Led development teams for various highly customizable and server centric Android applications
• Led a team of engineers to build and support a service oriented backend application
• Architect solutions for features such as user management, image manipulation, purchases, chromecast integration
• Document requirements, provide high level estimates and negotiate timeframes
• Establish team norms, workflows, and integration with dependent teams

Coppell, TX, US

• Main tasks included integration with a large variety of systems using multiple types of communication technologies such as SOAP, RESTful, Sockets, and (s)FTP file transfers. Also took a large role in maintaining more.
• Led development of new systems and reimplementations of existing systems
• Implement and manage integrations for over 30 independent clients
• Support over 50 deployed on-site kiosksTechnologies: PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Java, SOAP, REST APIs, Sockets, FTP, IVR, Asterisk, MySQL

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Optimize workflows to increase product testing and organize with electronic testers and ensure workflow procedures are followed. Software development ranged from browser extensions to full systems of inventory.
• Research, prototype, and test new systems to speed up and ensure proper hard drive repurposing
• Develop tools to support manual testing and data entryAchievements:
• Brad Anderson Legacy Stock Award for innovationTechnologies: PHP, Javascript, CSS, MySQL, REST APIs, Visual Basic,.NET Framework, Powershell

Maintain main eCommerce and product information website, develop multiple product specific websites and assist customers troubleshoot sold software.Technologies: PHP, Javascript, CSS, Pearl