Rafael Montas Email & Phone Number

Dominican Republic

• Migrated asset processing/bundling from Webpacker to esbuild (with jsbundling-rails and cssbundling-rails) resulting in a 50% CI/CD build time reduction and a smooth transition from Sprockets to Propshaft as the asset.
• Led initiative to migrate from Turbolinks to Turbo (Drive, Frames, and Streams)
• Refactored the entire chat system using Rails (originally built with Vue.js and a Rails API) and taking advantage of the Hotwire umbrella of features, especially Morphing.
• Work alongside other developers to implement technical solutions aligned with product requirements.
• Led development and implementation of a new product (Boost) resulting in a 2.0x increase in listing visits and the creation of a new revenue stream.
• Helped integrate a third-party payment processor API to handle recurring and one-time payments.

Dominican Republic

• Assist Treasury Manager in the evaluation of investment opportunities.
• Preparation of reports regarding the performance of the investment portfolio.
• Coordination of weekly payments to healthcare providers.

Dominican Republic

• Developed real estate listing application using PostgreSQL, Express.js, React, and Node.js (PERN Stack).
• Built out the back-end RESTful API and implemented user authentication and authorization workflow.
• Designed the database schema with PostgreSQL and used Sequelize as Object RelaYonal Mapper (ORM).
• Developed app integration with REST APIs for Google Maps (Dynamic Maps and Geocoding), Twilio (Email), and AWS S3 (cloud storage of all media assets).
• Developed and published iOS and Android apps with React Native.

Dominican Republic

• Perform full valuation analysis, including DCF, trading comparables, precedent transactions, LBO and Merger consequences.
• Active participation in due diligence process, including preparing virtual data rooms, tracking and coordinating the information flow, and reviewing and analyzing company information.
• Assist in the preparation of investment memorandums and management/board presentations.
• Constant monitoring of portfolio companies regarding their compliance with financial covenants.

Dominican Republic

• Monthly reporting to the Risk Committee regarding Credit, Counterparty, and Market Risk.
• Drafting of monthly and quarterly risk reports.
• Analysis of the evolution of credit risk and the impact of the exchange rate on it.
• Developed a Macro for the reporting of operational incidents.

Madrid Area, Spain

• Collaboration in the renewal of risk policies and investment limits for the fixed income portfolios.
• Validation of the quality of the information related to debt issuers by using internal and external tools like Bloomberg.
• Drafting of reports about the exposure of the portfolios in terms of Ratings, Sectors, and Countries.
• Financial Statement Analysis to assess credit risk.
• Daily update of the risk limit database for the fixed income portfolios.

Dominican Republic

• Assisted in reorganizing complaints, claims, and suggestions made through the different ways of contact with the objective of being able to identify which government institution the complaint belonged to.

Máster En Bolsa Y Mercados Financieros, Finance, General

Madrid, Spain

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic