Santiago Herrera Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

From a technology perspective, I have been helping develop, maintain, support, and scale Snapsheet since its engineering team was made up of 4 people.Technologies we love: Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, ES6, Webpack, Python Flask, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS, ElasticSearch, Algolia, Heroku.If you have a passion for creating and want to work with cutting edge technologies while mastering the fine art of ping pong, let's have a chat. We are continuously growing and always looking for great engineers.https://github.com/santi-h

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

• Designed and implemented in C++ a Linux server application of a radio trunking system• Sped up development activities for the team writing scripts in Perl, Python, and Batch• Reduced testing time from 5+ minutes to 15 seconds• Reduced build time from 3+ minutes to 30 seconds by mocking external, irrelevant components• Debugged customer issues on a deployed radio trunking system (Connect Plus)• Developed for Windows (for testing), Linux (target), and Nucleus (target)

Chicago, Il, Us

• Designed and implemented AI search algorithms using NVIDIA GPU’s• Used parallel programming concepts• Developed using CUDA framework from NVIDIA• Reported directly to the Dean of the College of Engineering

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Optimized the event delivery mechanism of an internal website’s backend built with Spring MVC• Designed and implemented a guaranteed asynchronous event delivery system to achieve optimization• Reduced user’s perceived latency of a critical operation by 50 milliseconds• Used a messaging service similar to JMS for enqueuing outgoing messages• Developed on Red Hat• Used git for versioning control, and developed in java using Eclipse

Chicago, Il, Us

• Developed a radio repeater simulator to test the real repeaters used in MOTOTRBO systems• Programmed on a Linux-based multi-board, multi-processor machine (IxCatapult)• Used networking devices (hubs, switches, and routers) intensively to set up testing environments• Implemented repeater-communication protocols based on UDP• Wrote 9700 lines in C++, 26 Classes, 3 makefiles• Wrote user manual and technical documentation in Word• Created UML doc in Visio to document object designs and sequence diagrams• Gave demos and presentations to large audiences• Gave technical trainings on simulator and target machine (IxCatapult)• Completed stretch goals

Chicago, Il, Us

• Developed debugging tools for repeaters used in two-way digital radio systems• Wrote 8000 lines in Perl: 3 different tools• Enhanced software written in C#• Reinforced C++ concepts• Kept projects ahead of schedule, exceeded expectations, and reached additional goals• Participated in team meetings regularly, and gave presentations and demos in front of large groups

• Analyzed and maintained databases in Clarion 6.1• Designed GUI’s• Interacted with customers and Installed the product in their systems• Led a team of two

Bachelor, Computer Science

General Education