Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company's three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

I have a degree in Information Systems Engineering (5 years degree) in one of the top engineering universities of Argentina.

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Software Engineer

Ad Platform
• From a small initiative I was able to lead the design and implementation of new tools that allowed multiple stakeholders (legal, marketing, ad business, ad ops) to visualize and customize the Ad Experience (ad load, ad duration, ad products, ad restrictions, …) by multiple dimensions (user, device, content metadata) even for unforseen use cases. Now the Ad Experience is a team of 5 full-time devs.
• Proposed the next gen of tools to quickly create internal tools & APIs replacing Ad Server legacy systems
• Built small footprint & highly available services capable of handle ad requests load >100k rpm
• Lead and mentored best practices in several aspects of the dev lifecycle: architecture, API design, code metrics and conventions, automation, CI/CD, shared components, service monitoring, business metrics
• Simplified the development process as much as possible
• Technical phone screens and on-site interviews

Stack: es6/7, react, redux, storybook, flow, prettier, jest/enzyme, docker, jenkins, golang, java 8, postgres, redis, kafka, elasticsearch, monorepo, aws, newrelic, pagerduty, ...

Senior Software Engineer

Advertising Analytics
• Full stack dev for the flagship SaaS product contributing on new features and enhancements
• I lead the design and implementation of BuzzFeed’s standalone product which integrates seamlessly to the main SaaS product
• Migrated old survey app from Flash/Flex to modern HTML5/CSS/ES6 with KnockoutJS
• Proposed, implemented and tested better UX and new components (dynamic questions) to collect data

Stack: es6/7, angularjs, knockoutjs, nodejs, jest, java, groovy, spring, redis, ec2, workflow, s3, elasticsearch, ...

Ecommerce SaaS
• Migration of legacy overcomplex components to lightweight, easy-to-maintain apps using Grails + TDD
• Performed tech stack modernization of core components (rabbitmq, mongodb, grails/java)
• Simplified search API replacing solr with elasticsearch and syncing all data directly from main db opslog
• Contributed to cloud VPC guidelines (AMI template, VM scripts, VPC layout, load balancer, routing, security requirements)
• Proposed and implemented a CI/CD deploy pipeline
• Did the migration from svn to git and mentored the team about git best practices

Stack: java, grails, groovy, rest, aws, elasticsearch, mongodb, ...

Core APIs Team
• Breaked down 10ys monolithic codebase into microservices
• Designed & implemented public and private APIs (https://developers.mercadolibre.com) that becomes the backend of MercadoLibre.com, internal tools and 3rd party apps
• Using pragmatic RESTful APIs, TDD, virtualization among other technologies to achieve a reliable, highly available, high-throughput (>1.5M rpm) distributed system

Other Projects
• Overhauled Classifieds cars, real estate sections (listing, search, item pages) boosting user engagement
• Users tracking: Improved daily job performance from 8 hours to 3 hours which tracks users malicious behavior and apply penalizations

Stack: java, grails, groovy, gpars, rest, jenkins, redis, elastic, rabbitmq, haproxy, openstack, ps/sql, newrelic