Sr. Backend Developer

Summary

Pragmatic, focused and motivated backend engineer. I've architected, built, evolved and maintained many projects during my 15 years career as a backend engineer. I've been working with Laravel since Laravel 4 and have built from APIs and standalone projects to a full-fledge event management system. I'm not afraid to dig into other people's code to learn about the inner workings, to fix or to add whatever I'm missing. I also like to contribute to open source projects I like personally or when it's required for work.

Work Experience

Lead Backend Engineer

The Next Web

Oct 2015 - Present (8 yrs 5 mos)

Montevideo, UY (Remote)

Architect and build new apps and features for all TNW projects, mostly but not only, using Laravel
Administration and management of infrastructure (pets & cattle)
Responsible for our development setup to ease onboarding of new colleagues
Mentoring of colleagues and new onboards
Translate product requests from different teams to development requirements

Lead Backend Engineer

TwitterCounter

Nov 2011 - Jun 2015 (3 yrs 8 mos)

Amsterdam, NL (On-site)

Infrastructure management of 10+ servers (pets) handling the infrastructure needed by the app
Re-work of the tooling to be able to grow the team and get the project up-to-date with industry standards
Implementation of new features and APIs needed to grow the business

Backend developer

The Next Web

Nov 2010 - Nov 2011 (1 yr)

Amsterdam, NL (On-site)

Work as part of TNW Labs division experimenting with possible new startups and projects
Maintenance and development of existing projects
Development of the founders new ideas and translating them into code
System administration of existing and new servers

Sysadmin and Backend Developer

M2Mobi

Jul 2010 - Jul 2011 (1 yr)

Amsterdam, NL (On-site)

Development of a company's propietary PHP framework to help with the production of new apps
Sysadmin and management of servers
Maintenance of network setup at the office

Tech

PHP/Laravel

Expert

10+ years working with it, contributed a few things and built packages for it (both open and private) extensively

MySQL

Advanced user

13 years using it as DB for all kind of projects. Lots left to learn regarding query and performance optimization but I get around

Git

Advanced user

13 years of everyday use with different workflows. Fairly confident using it although still learning about it

Docker

Intermediate

Built a common local dev environment for all our projects and use it on a couple small production projects (together with k8s)

Kubernetes

Beginner

Managed myself to maintain and not break a couple of inherited projects but by no means an expert on it

Linux

Intermediate

It's my daily driver and I've been using it to host my projects since I started working but there's still plenty to learn about

Skills

Pragmatism

Good at evaluating the always hard choice between the ideal implementation and the actual constraints of the assignment

Mentorship

Like to help colleagues through their learning journey and guide them through it

Self-learning

Not afraid to dive into docs or code to learn things outside my comfort zone

Curiosity

When something works (or doesn't) "magically", I usually have the urge to know why