Engineering Leader @Rootstrap

+598 91211504

[email protected]

Montevideo, 11300, Uruguay

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About Me

What I can offer

I am an accomplished Engineering Leader with over 4+ years of experience effectively managing teams of up to 6 developers. My expertise lies in iOS development, where I have accumulated more than 9 years of hands-on experience. I have successfully planned and executed the delivery of over 10 mobile and web projects.

Dedicated to enhancing the mobile department and refining processes within my company, I actively contribute to the hiring process, ensuring the acquisition of top talent to bolster the success of both, my team and the organization. I am deeply passionate about leveraging my technical proficiency and leadership skills to propel the success of my team and the projects we undertake.

Languages

Speaking Proficiency

• Spanish
• English

■■■■■■■■■■ Fluent

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Experience

November 2019 - Present

Engineering Leader

• Lead up to 6 people, including performance and salary management, and provide high-quality feedback to them.
• Provide specific, quality-focused coaching for each member I lead, helping them achieve their career goals.
• Assist other team members in solving difficult challenges while enhancing their capabilities.
• Work closely with managers and HR to ensure a healthy environment and department, collaborating on various initiatives focusing on employee care.
• Assist in improving the hiring process and conducting interviews for the mobile department.
• Collaborate with managers and other key roles to achieve department objectives.
• Ensure and promote the development of high-quality code across the company.
• Work closely with the Sales department to create technical proposals for leads. During this process, I'm responsible for understanding the idea, doing proof of concepts to identify risks or confirm the feasibility of a feature, as well as proposing a team, tech stack, and initial estimations for a project.
• Write high-quality code that is well-designed, testable, and efficient for my assigned clients.

October 2022 - February 2023

Senior iOS Developer @R&G Brenner (via Rootstrap)

• Audited the mobile apps to determine how to rebuild them for the next tax season.
• Planned the roadmap with a team of developers, designers, and QA engineers to develop and release both mobile apps using Flutter.
• Identify risks and requirements.
• Led a team of 8 people to accomplish the proposed plan.

February 2021 - May 2022

Senior iOS Developer @MasterClass (via Rootstrap)

Native Growth POD:

• As Native Growth Tech Leader, I led (iOS & Android teams) through many app improvements, experiment implementations, and catch-up between mobile and web platforms.
• Estimated and executed fixes and improvements over old Growth flows like Onboarding, Checkout, and specific promotions.
• Helped the iOS team implement the new weekly release process and adapt the workflow and dynamic between QA and product following this new weekly timeline.

Sessions POD:

• Helped the iOS team create the new Sessions experience. This project involved adding a new flow for a new type of original content, emphasizing promoting community interaction and 2-way feedback between users and session instructors.
• Contributed to the new accessibility goal across the company, helping to create the first 100% accessible flow within the mobile apps

Virality POD:

• Helped the Virality team to catch up with the web regarding experiments facing the end user.
• Implemented many flows and experiments around checkout and promotions, such as Guest Pass
• Contributed heavily to reduce technical debt across the entire iOS app

August 2020 - December 2020

Senior iOS Developer @Hollywood (via Rootstrap)

• Audited the mobile applications, and proposed how to implement new features, continuing the work made by the previous team.
• Planned and implemented a dynamic movie theater layout within the iOS application, showing status and seat positions for many possible combinations.
• Worked on the reserve and checkout system for seats using the app's backend as an intermediary. Blocking seats in the provider's backends such as AMC was crucial. Sockets and safety policies were involved to ensure a correct hand-off between APIs.
• Helped plan the Conciergery experience. This flow was created to generate recommendations based on previously bought tickets, saved films, genre, price range, and location of those previous tickets.

March 2019 - October 2019

Senior iOS Developer @Generis (via Rootstrap)

• Implemented a complex but natural step-by-step onboarding experience to gather health information from users.
• Connect users with 23andMe services to request DNA tests and use the results as valuable data recommending exercises and diets.
• Helped to create the plan for a back-end that consumes results from 23andMe and delivered health recommendations for the users, using user goals and restrictions introduced during onboarding.

November 2017 - August 2019

Senior iOS Developer @Live Music Loyalty

(via Rootstrap)

• Designed and implemented the automatic event check-in algorithm based on media metadata (photos and videos) from the phone's gallery app. This process worked automatically for new events, but also any event from the year 2000 to the present day.
• The algorithm also processed data from different event providers, such as Ticketmaster. The algorithm was designed to be executed between the mobile app and the back end to ensure the privacy and safety of each user and their data. Later, a patent was submitted for the algorithm.
• Helped the Android team catch up on implementation by creating a roadmap for the task and onboarding the new team about the work done so far.

April 2017 - November 2019

Senior iOS Developer

March 2015 - April 2017

iOS Developer

Education

Computer Science

Universidad de la República, Montevideo Uruguay