Personal details

Carlos J. - Remote front-end developer

Carlos J.

Senior Software Engineer
Based in: 🇨🇴 Colombia
Timezone: Bogota (UTC-5)

Summary

With over a decade of experience in the software industry, as well as experience in different fields, I have honed my expertise both in the frontend and the backend, achieving a high degree of quality, speed, teamwork, and adaptability, making me an excellent fit in any high complexity project.

Work Experience

Senior Software Developer
VMware | May 2021 - Jan 2024
Node.js
TypeScript
React
JavaScript
Express.js

Employed at a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.

Led a team while spearheading POC code refactoring for the Learning Center, transitioning from old JQuery to React.js and enhancing the Django back-end to facilitate interactive course development.

While leading the Learning Center refactor, defined the frontend architecture, created epics and tasks in Jira, assigned work to teammates, mentored them in the technologies involved as well as hard technical challenges, and pair-programmed with them to reach the objective in a reasonable timeline.

Enabled Kubernetes-based development environments within the Learning Center.

Contributed to Backstage.io, the open-source developer portal owned and maintained by Spotify.

Developed VMware Cloud Provider Authentication Plugin for Backstage.io, seamlessly connecting Passport strategy to VMware servers and integrating it with Backstage.io's authentication framework.

Developed the Pod Exec Terminal plugin for Backstage.io, simplifying developer connections to Kubernetes pods via a web terminal, and facilitating debugging and log reviewing.

Utilized JS, NodeJS, Typescript, Express, JQuery, React, Kubernetes and Django.

Senior Frontend Architect
ZagaLabs | Aug 2020 - May 2021
Node.js
TypeScript
React
React Native

Engaged with a company that helps clients with development needs, from eliminating tech debt, unclogging backlog, and accelerating velocity, to building complete software solutions.

Led the frontend architecture efforts, defining the structure for the web app, collaborating with designers and product owners to define the plan ahead, and mentoring teammates in a variety of subjects, including technical and conceptual.

Developed the front-end components for Kitchen United, a unique food delivery service project.

Managed the state of the single-page application, including order date and time logic, cart logic, and UI.

Implemented the capability for customers to place orders from mixed restaurants in a single bill.

Collaborated on a project designed to work closely with various developer services.

Handled the front-end aspects of Kitchen United, including order management and delivery, for restaurants all housed in the same building under the concept of "renting out the kitchen".

Utilized JS, Typescript, Angular, React, React Native, and NodeJS.

Education

FreeCodeCamp
Bachelor's degree・Computer Software Engineering
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016