Daniel Salazar G.

Software Architect

I'm a 35 years old software architect, fullstack developer and sysops living in Santiago, Chile, with almost 9 years of professional experience. I specialize in Web Development using TDD, microservices and JSON, in Elixir, Ruby, and Crystal. On the frontend side, I have experience with Riot.js, Redux, and a little bit of React.js.

Education

2008 - 2008, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Licenciatura en Matemática y Estadística (unfinished)
2010 - 2015, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Ingeniería Civil en Informática (unfinished)

Experience

Feb 2021 - Nov 2021, Technical leader, Jooycar

Main Tech: Elixir, Javascript, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis

Maintenance, writing tests and debugging old issues in legacy platforms written in both Elixir and Javascript.
Led team in charge of the company's Latin American operations, meeting with clients and working with various suppliers.

May 2020 - Nov 2020, Software developer, BairesDev

Main Tech: Elixir, Ruby, GraphQL

Maintenance & partial refactors of multiple internal platforms, adding job monitoring, improved tests and other tasks.
Led efforts to improve code standards across all projects.

May 2019 - Jan 2020, Software developer, Morris & Opazo

Main Tech: Java, Spring, Redis.

Implementation in Java / Spring of a platform for collection and ranking of duplicate listings for customer along various social networks.
Led team-wide effort towards adopting TDD for current and future projects based on JUnit and Mockito.

Dec 2015 - Jan 2019, Software architect, lead senior developer and CTO, Panther Management

Main Tech: Elixir, Rails, Crystal, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis.

Design and implementation using Elixir / Phoenix of a SaaS platform for customer management.
Design and implementation using Ruby / Rails of a platform for statistical analysis of customer data.
Design and participation in a company-wide move towards a full Docker stack, to speed up deployment of new versions of the platform.

Jul 2016 - Jan 2018, External consultant and lead developer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Main Tech: Rails, PostgreSQL, Riot.js

Implementation in Ruby / Rails of an online polling system for local schools, as part of an UX research project.
Implementation in Ruby / Rails of an online education platform for internal use by the University, as part of a joint project between the Education and Engineering departments.

Jul 2013 - May 2015, Co-founder, senior developer and CTO, Nursoft

Main Tech: Rails, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite.

Design and implementation in Ruby / Rails of a platform for generating commercial reports, including a parser for financial equations.
Design and implementation in Ruby / Rails of a platform for visualization of macro and microeconomic data for the Bank of Africa.

Communication Skills

Q3 2015, Ruby on Rails course, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.
Apr 2016, Laboratoria tech conference, Universidad San Sebastián.

Software

Languages: Elixir, Ruby, Crystal, Java, Javascript, Typescript, Rust
Other: Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, CassandraDB, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ

Interests

Professional: Software architecture, language design, management theory, web design, web protocol design, software design, process automation.
Personal: Photography, economics, political theory, philosophy.

References

eerdmann@zeroq.cl: Ernesto Erdmann, CEO Panther Management SpA
rmasad@nursoft.cl: Rafik Mas'ad, CEO Nursoft
gvasquez@jooycar.cl
: Gonzalo Vasquez, CTO Jooycar
iureta@evernote.com: Ignacio Ureta, Software Developer at Evernote
juescalo@amazon.com: Juan Pablo Escalona, Software Development Engineer II at AWS Rekognition