Javier Vargas Email & Phone Number

Bogota, CO

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

• Responsible for conducting research collaborations that yield new insights, analyses, data, algorithms, methodologies and prototypes that advance the state-of-the-art of the company's products or introduce market.
• Entrusted to start the area and show how and why it was critical to have dedicated research team. Today it operates as an autonomous business area of the company.
• Development of critical features for existent products as well as instrumental contributions to the creation of a brand-new product.
• Design and building of large-scale data processing machine learning engines. As well as leading data analytics for production environments.
• Filing of two+ patent applications in the USPTO and publication of research work at industry-relevant conferences.

• Responsible for interpret the product management team requirements and packaging the features into product releases. Tasks included breaking specifications into clear tasks and work together with the team to create.
• Lead the development and QA of a brand-new product, evolving it from an initial idea to a first-class safe browsing solution.
• After a period of hard work, fast prototyping, proof of concepts and gathering of customer feedback, we officially introduced at the RSA conference 2013 were it was included as one of the "Hottest Products" of the event.
• Recruited and built an agile team of top-performing people focused on creating value, ensuring the best coding standards and quality of the product while delivering within time-lines.
• Pioneered the adoption of agile methodologies and implementation of agile deployment practices such as continuous integration and large-scale automated testing.

• Active participation in the whole development life cycle, focused in researching and implementing fraud prevention software.
• Speed-up design and delivery of top-notch malware protection product, making possible to meet schedules agreed with our first client.
• Lead collaborations with a big financial institution to improve the product by gathering in-situ feedback and diagnosis data that allowed us to identify critical needs and special use-cases.

Colombia

• Design and implementation of diverse applications and solutions for the company’s clients.
• Led the re-architecture of a system for control and monitoring of PSTN external infrastructure, enabling it to seamless handle new physical devices and 10x more load than previous design.
• Led the implementation of the product for a major Telco in Peru.

Colombia

Design and coding of Windows GUI applications for access control and monitoring systems, as well as coding of firmware for embedded systems.Includes:- Programming of C/C++ GUI applications using Qt, Multi-threading, Sockets, Databases.- C and Assembler programming for Atmel and Microchip embedded platforms.- Also includes implementation of VoIP PBX Systems.

Linux applications programming (C++, Java, Bash, Python) for PSTN external infrastructure control and monitoring.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronic Engineering

Dropout Master’S Degree, Systems Engineering And Computing, Dropout

Education record