Alejandro Quesada Email & Phone Number

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

• Managed an intern team in both a people and technical management capacity concluding in improved performance outcomes for a critical enterprise API.• Organized and hosted ~5 Test Driven Development workshops/presentations for 7 different teams and 50+ individuals at various levels.• Led Intent Setup’s technical operations for the 04/20 prime rate event where 100s of active credit card products were updated and redeployed with new prime rate APRs.• Co-led a regional failover exercise for a managed application service within given RTO/RPO requirements (5 hours/2 hours appropriately).• Delivered a serverless ETL strategy that exceeded commitments to the business and delivered within critical deadlines in a high-pressure environment.• Owned and modernized several business critical features whilst leading and lifting peers in their development.• Influenced technical decisions in a non-lead capacity; considered a glue on teams/initiatives participated due to rapport and willingness to regularly travel to onboard new leadership and coordinate face time with remote teams.• Designed bounded contexts and implementations for an application service that preemptively reduced anticipated story points representing several engineers entire sprints.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Tech lead on 3 projects with teams of ~3 developers/designers. Participated in 9+ projects with roles ranging consultant, QA and engineer.• Presented 7+ times on instructional technical and operations topics for the business and meetups.• Led a rewrite of a geospatial API that adopted a serverless architecture concluding in 3 times the performance at a 1/3 of the operations costs as 2/3 of the servers were deprecated recouping ~50% of the AWS bill for the client in-question.• Designated 6 Golang AWS Lambdas, with ~90% test coverage, behind API Gateway hoisting CloudFront edge caching for sub 100ms cached response times agnostic of geographic location within the United States.• Evangelized optimized front-end performance as a feature with small build artifacts and scores of over 80 for 3G clients in Lighthouse.• Automated NodeJS ECS continuous integration deployments via CloudFormation and CodePipeline.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Harrisonburg, Va, Us

• Redesigned the ‘CIS in Europe’ program’s final project with a focus on usability and security principles• Interviewed former abroad students to find ‘as-is’ weak points and user suggestions• Designed an Information Architecture, through Card Sorting and usability testing, that will equip future students with an easily accessible reference guide encapsulated in an example final project• Developing documentation that explains utilized PHP, HTML and CSS code practices as well as server development (Windows IIS MySQL and PHP), which shall serve as the aforementioned guide

• Launched 2 video game apps for iOS & Android platforms, with 2 additions in design and development• Utilizing user driven design processes and strategies: mobile-first, analytics and optimization• Focus on story telling and developing via minimum viable product approach• Maintaining www.redpause.com as an informative source for my sole proprietorship • Other activities associated with a sole proprietorship such as strategy and branding

Washington, Dc, Us

General Service Office Summer Hire | U.S Embassy Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 5/2014 – 8/2014• Enhanced and simplified polices such as ‘bring your own device’• Designed an array of articles meant to streamline embassy faculty experiences upon mission arrivalConsulate Office Summer Hire | U.S Embassy Buenos Aires, Argentina | 5/2011 – 9/2011• Organized 100s of incoming passports every hour, negating bottlenecks for the consular team