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Fintech, large app, many devs, interesting problems.

United States

Led the development of a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform, empowering users to submit requests to creators. This position was 100% remote.We followed Extreme Programming principles along with scrum ceremonies.• Designed and implemented the payment system of a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding marketplace using Stripe.• Orchestrated the engineering team and worked closely with business people to meet deadlines.• Integrated product design with the back-end platform and… Show more Led the development of a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform, empowering users to submit requests to creators. This position was 100% remote.We followed Extreme Programming principles along with scrum ceremonies.• Designed and implemented the payment system of a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding marketplace using Stripe.• Orchestrated the engineering team and worked closely with business people to meet deadlines.• Integrated product design with the back-end platform and various outside systems like Stripe, Klaviyo, and Segment.• Improved the throughput of the engineering team by 20% (kickoffs, workshops, best practices).• Collaborated with colleagues through online pair programming sessions to facilitate knowledge sharing and to helpe them to level up in their careers.Areas of Personal Development: Leading a dev team, mentoring, remote pair programming, Docker, Stripe, FinTech industry, Startup world. Show less

Madrid Area, Spain

Pagatnis was a highly regulated entity in the FinTech world. I worked here as a System Owner on the legacy back-end of quebueno.es to provide pay-day loans in less than 10 minutes.This position was 20% remote.We followed agile software development principles along with scrum ceremonies.• Translated fuzzy business ideas into production solutions.• Reduced cycle time through improved work-flow, trunk-based development and live metrics.• Introduced KPI monitoring that… Show more Pagatnis was a highly regulated entity in the FinTech world. I worked here as a System Owner on the legacy back-end of quebueno.es to provide pay-day loans in less than 10 minutes.This position was 20% remote.We followed agile software development principles along with scrum ceremonies.• Translated fuzzy business ideas into production solutions.• Reduced cycle time through improved work-flow, trunk-based development and live metrics.• Introduced KPI monitoring that led to a 30 percentage points improvement of an important KPI.• Executed 80% of a two-month-long business critical migration while running a fully functioning system.• Integrated third-party services and coordinated the work with our partners to automate operations.• Upgraded Rails—the core framework—from v3.2 to v6.0 without interrupting the feature development.• Improved the speed of the RSpec test suite by 25%.• Introduced end-to-end testing to reduce fault rate and encourage experimentation.Areas of Personal Development: service based architecture, message queues, monitoring, FinTech industry, hiring, refactoring, AWS, software economics and continuous integration. Show less

Malta

I worked remotely on a customer-facing social network (quintonic.fr), a legacy and classic MVC Ruby on Rails web app.• Improved the speed and memory usage of the background processes by 40-60 percent.• Built a memory monitoring developer tool to solve inoperable and hard-to-identify bugs.• Built and optimized an internal tool to synchronize millions of records of data in collaboration with a partner firm.• Collaborated with graphic and UX designers, POs and other team… Show more I worked remotely on a customer-facing social network (quintonic.fr), a legacy and classic MVC Ruby on Rails web app.• Improved the speed and memory usage of the background processes by 40-60 percent.• Built a memory monitoring developer tool to solve inoperable and hard-to-identify bugs.• Built and optimized an internal tool to synchronize millions of records of data in collaboration with a partner firm.• Collaborated with graphic and UX designers, POs and other team members.• Built RESTful APIs backed by Ruby on Rails for a JavaScript heavy front-end.• Improved the code quality and reduced technical debt.• Worked on rewriting the original app from scratch to create whatz.fr.Areas of Personal Development: API design, Linux, Git, background processes, scaling, performance optimization, testing, best practices and clean code.Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Grape, RSpec, Cucumber, MySQL, TDD, BDD, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML/CSS, Heroku, Redis, Solr, Resque, Unix, Git, APIs Show less

Budapest

Because of the consultancy nature of the company, I encountered a wide range of problems and technologies. We worked with international clients from different time zones and countries including Canada, Dubai, Australia and Hungary.• Built mobile-optimized Ruby on Rails app for a constrained 5-hour long event, not allowing for follow-on adjustments. Carried out automated stress tests to ensure that the app could cope with the load.• Built desktop app for a touch screen kiosk machine… Show more Because of the consultancy nature of the company, I encountered a wide range of problems and technologies. We worked with international clients from different time zones and countries including Canada, Dubai, Australia and Hungary.• Built mobile-optimized Ruby on Rails app for a constrained 5-hour long event, not allowing for follow-on adjustments. Carried out automated stress tests to ensure that the app could cope with the load.• Built desktop app for a touch screen kiosk machine using WinJS for a leading telecommunication company in Hungary. Applied several optimizations to make the app run smooth on the target device.• Built a cool Google Chrome extension for a commercial airline marketing department suggesting flights around photos on websites.• Developed single page applications using Ruby on Rails and EmberJS.• Built an iPad app using Ember CLI and Cordova for a pioneer pharmaceutical company in Hungary.• Integrated a payment service and third party APIs to automate operation.• Built responsive web apps via Adobe Photoshop and mockup files.• Maintained legacy apps.• Tinkered with new technologies.This position provided the foundation for confidence in effective and diverse problem solving.Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sinatra, Capybara, Sidekiq, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cordova, JavaScript, EmberJS, jQuery, WinJS, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Unix, Git, Heroku Show less

Hungary

• Designed and built dynamic websites from top-to-bottom.• Organized and led projects to ship new dynamic websites from scratch.• Collaborated with graphic designers, developers, SEO experts and website hosts.• Supported and consulted clients.• Developed an automated tool to check the health and the existence of email addresses.• Built a customizable back-office with modules like WYSIWYG editor, file manager, photo uploader and user management.• Maintained and updated… Show more • Designed and built dynamic websites from top-to-bottom.• Organized and led projects to ship new dynamic websites from scratch.• Collaborated with graphic designers, developers, SEO experts and website hosts.• Supported and consulted clients.• Developed an automated tool to check the health and the existence of email addresses.• Built a customizable back-office with modules like WYSIWYG editor, file manager, photo uploader and user management.• Maintained and updated existing websites for various clients.• Created graphic designs, banners, layouts and marketing materials.Stack: PHP, Laravel 4, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Photoshop Show less

Hungary

• Designed and built dynamic websites for clients based in the UK.• Extended and maintained existing websites for various clients.• Identified creative solutions to overcome technical limitations.Stack: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Participate in Student Council, Barbecue, Team Building, 24-hour programming competition