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Nicolás P.
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Argentina
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America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
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Code sommelier & speaker: Crafting elegant solutions, bridging product & engineering.
* Speaked at national and international conferences, giving talks about side projects and research, OOP, TDD, best practices, and software development philosophy * Trained/Coached people on Object Oriented Programming and design, Test-Driven development, refactoring, and best practices. * Developed tools for Smalltalk, such as Finder (a system-wide search tool with fuzzy matching) and Code Coverage (a novel code-coverage tool that provides deep analysis features and can analyze itself). * Love sharing and discussing software development practices and techniques, in particular about the Smalltalk programming system, its history, and its impact on the history of programming languages.
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Years of commercial development experience
22 years of experience
Core technologies
Other technologies
Project Highlights
Generative Canvas
Aug `22 - Dec `23
1 year
Facet AI
All-in-one collaborative image generation web application using AI.
Responsibilities & achievements
Participated in developing the app from the ground up, integrating it with other services/apps of the company, helped improve its performance, and maintained, extended, and defined product features.
Edit
Apr `20 - Dec `23
4 years
Facet.ai
Content-aware photo editing web application using AI focused on semantic edits rather than modifying pixels.
Responsibilities & achievements
Participated in the team that developed, maintained, and extended the system. Helped improve its performance and define product features.
React frontend for Poleo (Chile)
Jan `20 - Mar `20
2 months
Alsea
System used by managers in every Starbucks and Burger King store in Argentina, Starbucks in Uruguay, and every Starbucks, Burgerking, PF Chang’s, and Chili’s stores in Chile, to report daily sales. Interacts with external systems (such as POSs) to gather sales information.
Responsibilities & achievements
Guided the team that developed the new UI for Chile (including changes to the backend). Trained teammates in OOP/TDD/Best practices. Improved the build & deployment process.
Portal de Finanzas
Apr `19 - Jan `20
9 months
Alsea
Financial system used to summarize and report sales collected from all Burger King and Starbucks (integrated with the My Starbucks Rewards card system) stores in Argentina and Uruguay.
Responsibilities & achievements
Guided the team that developed the system and trained teammates in OOP/TDD/Best practices. Improved the build & deployment process.
React frontend for Watci
Dec `18 - May `19
5 months
Alsea
Issue tracking system used by every Starbucks and Burger King store in Ar- gentina, and every Starbucks, Burgerking, PF Chang’s, and Chili’s stores in Chile, to report inventory lack/surplus/problems found in the supplier delivery chain. The system allows follow-up issues between the stores and the distribution center, as well as borrowing inventory from nearby stores.
Responsibilities & achievements
Guided the team that developed the new UI (including changes to the backend), and trained teammates in OOP/TDD/Best practices. Improved the build & deployment process.
React frontend for Poleo (Argentina)
May `18 - Dec `18
7 months
Alsea
System used by managers in every Starbucks and Burger King store in Argentina, Starbucks in Uruguay, and every Starbucks, Burgerking, PF Chang’s, and Chili’s stores in Chile, to report daily sales. Interacts with external systems (such as POSs) to gather sales information.
Responsibilities & achievements
Guided the team that developed the new UI (including changes to the backend), and trained teammates in OOP/TDD/Best practices. Improved the build & deployment process.
Aquabyte
Jan `18 - Apr `18
3 months
Aquabyte
Real-time monitoring system for salmon farms using images from underwater depth cameras processed by machine learning algorithms to do lice counting, biomass estimation, appetite detection, and feed optimization.
Responsibilities & achievements
Helped develop the pipeline that ingested images to process them using AI.
PERSUB
Sep `16 - Dec `17
1 year
FOX Latin American Channels
Invoicing and contracts system used by FOX to lease the company's channels to clients (cable television providers such as DirecTV) in several countries. Allows per-client per-contract flexible and configurable pricing schemes.
Responsibilities & achievements
Guided the team in gathering requirements, designing solutions, developing/refactoring/maintaining the system, and trained teammates in OOP/TDD/Best practices.
Ticketmaster
Jan `16 - Aug `16
7 months
Ticketmaster
Industry-leading ticket-selling platform.
Responsibilities & achievements
Participated in the development of the new ticket-selling platform redesigned to increase UX, and sales, and provide new services to end users. Participated in critical-paths projects to achieve 75% traffic redirection goal from the old to the new platform.
ConnectedHealth Platform
Jun `12 - Jan `16
4 years
ConnectedHealth
Health insurance marketplace for individuals and groups.
Responsibilities & achievements
Participated in the team that transformed the platform from a basic medical product marketplace for individuals into a sophisticated ecosystem. This enhanced platform enabled employees to seamlessly enroll in a wide range of health products, capitalize on employer contributions, and access federal tax credits.
Agency
50-100
GMT-3
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Core Expertise
Industries
Logistics & Transportation, E-Commerce & Retail, Banking & Finance, Entertainment & Games, Internet & Telecom, Healthcare & Medicine, Food & Drink
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