Personal details

Hernán A. - Remote full-stack developer

Hernán A.

Based in: 🇺🇾 Uruguay
Timezone: Montevideo (UTC-3)

About

Full-stack engineer and startup Co-Founder, with 14+ years of experience, building scalable SaaS products, and customer-facing applications.
Expertise in TypeScript, React, NextJS, Node+Express, Ruby on Rails, and a sharp eye for user interface designs.
Proven track record of improving UX/UI, and leading teams to deliver high-growth SaaS solutions.

Most recent achievements:

- Created from 0 to 1 an electronic invoicing platform with +3,500 satisfied clients (95%+ satisfaction with the product and its performance via an annual survey).
- Reduced customer onboarding time by 75% during an important growth period (1,000%) leveraging on automation (stack: playwright, zapier, customer.io)
- As a member of the In-App and Content squads at customer.io, delivered high-quality enhancements to our visual editors to create Emails and In-App messages
- Lead the implementation of flexible (auto-layout) columns in the cutting-edge multiplatform visual editor (emails and in-app messages) built on top of Parcel.io (recent Customer.io acquisition).
https://docs.customer.io/journeys/new-in-app-editor/#rows-and-columns
- Improved Web Vitals indicators (reduced application load time by 30%) and the overall Dev experience by introducing Prettier, linter, TypeScript, and a suite of tests to customer.io legacy In-App editor.

Work Experience

Board member & Advisor
pymo | Dec 2024 - Present
Code Review
Leadership
Strategic planning
  • Planning and discussing strategy every week with the board and co-founding team.
  • Focusing on expansion to Paraguay, capturing more users on the existing market, and launching add-ons to the basic plan.
Co-Founder, Full-stack Engineer & COO
pymo | Dec 2017 - Present
Python
Ruby on Rails
Node.js
Angular
React
JavaScript
Next.js
AWS Compute
AWS
  • Onboarded over 3,500 satisfied clients (95%+ satisfaction with the product and its performance via an annual survey).
  • Continuously focused on improving operational processes, with a focus on automating repetitive work while maintaining an exceptional and motivated team.
  • Reduced customer onboarding time by 75% during an important growth period (1,000%).
  • The process now requires only one person overseeing occasional failures.
  • As part of our DNA at pymo, we set up an automated onboarding process (React, Next.js form connected with Zapier, Playwright, and an internal BOT/CRM handling a complex state machine).
  • Built the frontend (Angular) and the backend (Rails) of the product, and hired a team of 10 (tech support, developers, sales, accountant, and accountant assistant).

Projects

pymo
Ruby on Rails
Node.js
Angular
React
pymo is an Electronic Invoicing ecosystem. We offer a web app to create invoices, create customers, and access reports We also offer integrations via our Rest APIs, and hardware for companies that want to incorporate technology in their processes

Education

Faculty of Sciences (UdelaR), Uruguay
Bachelor's degreeMathematics
Mar 2006 - Jan 2030
Kleer
CertificationScrum Master-Agile Team Facilitator
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017