Diego Algorta Email & Phone Number

Montevideo, UY

US

I joined Quimbee as the 2nd core-team member and led the tech work that helped it grow into a multi-million dollar operation that became one of the top 3,000 most visited websites in the United States and has tier-1 law school clients and tens of thousands of members.In 2017 and 2018, Quimbee entered the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies.

US

Responsible for advising the executives on everything tech-related, focusing most of my time into leading and building a remote team of senior web and mobile developers to work on our Ruby on Rails platform & React Native apps.At the same time, I managed to keep myself close to the code in my Lead Engineer role reserving some time to keep coding.

• Ruby on Rails software development.
• Mentoring for agile software development teams.
• Assembling and leading remote software development teams for startups.

San Francisco, CA, US

Leading teams' processes and clients communication. Advising clients on technology and processes issues and customizing agile methodologies to their needs.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Neo acquired Cubox in 2012 so this is pretty much a continuation of my previous employment although in a new context.Neo is a global product innovation company. We design and code compelling mobile and web products for.
• Member of Neo's international Leadership team, helping shape the company's operations and coordinating inter-office projects with offices in USA, Scotland and Singapore.
• Responsible for Neo Uruguay's office and team.

Member of the founders and organizing team of RubyConf Uruguay 2010, 2011, and 2013, an international yearly conference focused on the Ruby programming language but including many other aspects of Web and Mobile Development as well as Agile Methodologies, DevOps practices and Lean Startups.

Montevideo, Montevideo, UY

I'm fully responsible for all aspects of the company, in coordination with founder (Evan Henshaw-Plath.)I manage the relationship with startups from Silicon Valley and New York among others, establishing close relationships to empower them with our team's abilities.Cubox got acquired by Neo in 2012 where I continued my work as a Managing Director.

Montevideo, Montevideo, UY

I coordinate work, listen to clients, talk to accountants & lawyers, do hiring, and help the development teams make architectural decisions when they need it. But luckily, most of the time our teams are self managed and my work is to just make sure they can get on "the zone" and provide value to our clients.

Montevideo, Montevideo, UY

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer, interacting directly with clients and coordinating development teams.

Bellingham, Washington, US

Remote Web developer (Ruby on Rails) and SysAdmin/DevOps (Puppet, Linux, PostgreSQL, etc) with occasional trips to headquarters in Seattle, USA.Responsible for development of new features as well as maintaining the platform up & running and constantly improving site's performance.

Brooklyn, New York, US

Ruby on Rails development for website Design 21, Social Design Network (http://www.design21sdn.com). Member of a geographically distributed team with members in New York, London, Paris, Tucumán, Buenos Aires and myself in Montevideo.

Responsible for architecture/design and member of the development team of a sports betting platform supporting real time betting through a distributed network of more than 2000 POS and a webpage (www.supermatch.com.uy).Systems Administrator for many of the linux servers involving PostgreSQL, Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, Shorewall, Samba, OpenLDAP, Jabberd.

Responsible for in-house software development using GeneXus (http://www.genexus.com). Windows 2000 and Linux Server Administrator for services such as web, proxy, ftp, mail, firewall and ACLs. Scripting for TeleFORM (http://www.cardiff.com/products/teleform).

Montevideo, Montevideo, UY

Object Oriented Programming & Design teacher using UML diagrams, Design Patterns, VisualBasic and Smalltalk programming languages.Co-responsible on the development of the programming teaching plan/schedule for the Analista Programador 2000 career.