Juan Manuel Verges Email & Phone Number

Santo Domingo, Do

Remote

As a member of the Platform Team, I work as part of a group of seasoned engineers, overseeing the company's entire infrastructure. Our responsibilities extended to streamlining the tasks of over 20 engineers and ensuring product availability. From skillfully implementing custom GitHub actions for infrastructure and application deployments using GitOps, as well as developing various Kubernetes custom operators for managing infrastructure state and deployment of ml models, to setting up wide… Show more As a member of the Platform Team, I work as part of a group of seasoned engineers, overseeing the company's entire infrastructure. Our responsibilities extended to streamlining the tasks of over 20 engineers and ensuring product availability. From skillfully implementing custom GitHub actions for infrastructure and application deployments using GitOps, as well as developing various Kubernetes custom operators for managing infrastructure state and deployment of ml models, to setting up wide array of tools for monitoring and observalibity. In essence, every technological facet of the company hinged on the solutions and systems we have provided and maintained. Show less

United States

Promoted to this role, I led two teams of software engineers. One team focused on maintaining a legacy Learning Management System (LMS), while the other spearheaded its transformation into a highly available cloud-based service. Navigating complex compliance requirements, we successfully migrated the system from self managed allocated servers to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure, leveraging their Kubernetes (GKE) and other services like CloudSQL, Memorystore and Monitoring. We also… Show more Promoted to this role, I led two teams of software engineers. One team focused on maintaining a legacy Learning Management System (LMS), while the other spearheaded its transformation into a highly available cloud-based service. Navigating complex compliance requirements, we successfully migrated the system from self managed allocated servers to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure, leveraging their Kubernetes (GKE) and other services like CloudSQL, Memorystore and Monitoring. We also worked on implementing CI/CD on top Gitlab, these pipelines eventually streamlined our development-to-production workflows, significantly increasing operational efficiency. These advancements culminated in achieving a 99.8% uptime for the service, thereby facilitating exponential customer base growth for the company. Show less

As part of a team responsible for enhancing an existing Learning Management System (LMS) service. I initially contributed its backend and frontend development, utilizing Python for server-side logic for the Graphql API and TypeScript with Angular for the client-side. Over time, I advanced to leading the project, overseeing both technical and team-related responsibilities.

Modesto Diaz #2, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana

Give assessment and assist in any major decision making and execution in regards to the development and maintenance of the National Archive System.

Modesto Diaz #2, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana

As a Software Engineer, I single-handedly implemented and maintained a system for archive management and visualization, which was an amalgamation of various open-source tools. The multi-language environment required me to work in Java for the desktop client, PHP and JavaScript for the web interface, and C for image processing tasks. My end-to-end involvement ensured a seamlessly integrated system capable of handling complex archival and visualization needs.

Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana

At this startup, I played a pivotal role in developing a eCommerce system. Working closely with a small team, I was involved in the entire project lifecycle. Utilizing JavaScript as the primary language, we worked both server-side development with Node.js and client-side with custom framework. One of the more novel things about we achieved was related to infrastructure, at a time when automation and containerization were not yet mainstream, we leveraged Docker with a custom pipeline runner for… Show more At this startup, I played a pivotal role in developing a eCommerce system. Working closely with a small team, I was involved in the entire project lifecycle. Utilizing JavaScript as the primary language, we worked both server-side development with Node.js and client-side with custom framework. One of the more novel things about we achieved was related to infrastructure, at a time when automation and containerization were not yet mainstream, we leveraged Docker with a custom pipeline runner for CI/CD, streamlining the development workflow. Later the runner was replaced with an open-source one called Drone (golang). Show less

República Dominicana

As an integral part of the software development team, contributed to a wide array of company projects that ranged from simple data REST APIs to complex, highly available instant data delivery systems. I gained hands-on experience with diverse hosting environments, from bare-metal servers to cloud-based solutions on Amazon Web Services, employing advanced load-balancing and job distribution techniques. I navigated a multifaceted data layer, handling both vertical and horizontal data replication… Show more As an integral part of the software development team, contributed to a wide array of company projects that ranged from simple data REST APIs to complex, highly available instant data delivery systems. I gained hands-on experience with diverse hosting environments, from bare-metal servers to cloud-based solutions on Amazon Web Services, employing advanced load-balancing and job distribution techniques. I navigated a multifaceted data layer, handling both vertical and horizontal data replication across various data-stores including MySQL, Redis and PostgreSQL. Moreover worked implementing and maintaining their many API clients, written in a broad spectrum of programming languages such as C, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP and Go. Show less