Help startups and medium sized technology enterprises with the following services: - Assist with technology and product roadmap, both short term and long term - Evaluate outsourcing vendors quality and velocity - Review engineering processes and recommend improvements - Audit codebases and help deciding on refactoring or rewriting - Coach founders on everything related to technology decisions - Server architecture and scaling analysis - Support the fund-raising process by improving decks and investor materials - Implement digital marketing programs to attract the first 1,000 users of the platform Clients include Pluvio, Auctio, Karp Reilly (Patxis Pizza, Linksoul, Trina Turk), GIVZ and Agolo. Givz

Founder

Hired as the Engineering Manager for the Direct platform, which is the company’s first end-user product for adaptive textbook replacement as well as student analytics suite for teachers. The product was a combination of a React frontend layer and a Node middleware layer to interact with Knewton’s platform. Worked closely with the Product Management team to iterate and launch a beta program for the Direct product to various educational institutions. Involved in the planning and execution of cross-team initiatives including API team, Data Warehousing and Infrastructure. Venmo

Software Engineering Manager

Hired as the first Engineering Manager to help transition the company from startup to enterprise-level company Oversaw the Core Platform and Scaling teams which drove all the development of the core client APIs and database scaling (including MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and Celery). Responsible for a team of backend engineers, including coaching, reviews and compensation decisions. Completed along with People Ops, Head of Engineering and other Engineering managers a full reorganization of the Engineering team, including project tracking with JIRA, documentation with Confluence, core values, engineering levels, overhaul of the hiring process, bug tracking and triaging and software development lifecycle process. Shifted from a fuzzy project delivery to agile shipping, resulting in the delivery of two major projects that had been in the works for several months with no end in sight. Led the technical vision for important projects as the new people feed, Pay With Venmo, OFAC realtime P2P payment screening and refactoring the application to be in line with Django’s specifications. Learned Swift programming languange as a personal goal. MongoDB

Engineering Manager

Greater New York City Area Led a team of developers and contractors in refactoring both external web properties as well as internal tools, increasing the visibility of the team by interfacing with other team leads as well as instituting a more streamlined Agile process that has improved the team's productivity. OrderGroove, Inc. 4 years

Director of Web Engineering

Focused on the architecture, scaling and development of OrderGroove's platform that powers the subscription programs for leading eCommerce companies like Grainger, L'Oreal, Johnson&Johnson and CVS using a combination of cloud and dedicated clusters and leveraging Python, JavaScript, MongoDB, MySQL and Linux OS.

Chief Architect

New York, NY Designed, architected and coded the initial version of a SaaS contuinity platform, which runs via JavaScript in eCommerce shopping cart, and through A/B testing and tracking of cart actions, allows customers to purchase products on a recurring basis using a RESTful API system leveraging Python, MongoDB, MySQL and Django. Additionally recruited and supervised a core team of engineers to continue the platform's development while guaranteeing industry-standard uptime and response times using a combination of cloud and dedicated clusters. Expo Communications, Inc

Vice President of Engineering

New York, NY Supervised a team of 3 Software Developers, 5 Product Managers and 3 Content Editors in Miami and Mexico City and oversaw the development cycle of Yahoo! Products for the region, including Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Mail and various advertiser based microsites like Pepsi Música. Univision Online, Inc.

Product Manager

Professionally coding high scale applications using Python frameworks

Developing pure JS applications, with some experience with Angulas

Architected from scratch data models for high-volume web applications

Have managed git repositories for large teams

Personal details

Jorge E.

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Work Experience