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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
20 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 the initial development of the app, building it from the ground up. • Integrated the app with other services and applications within the company to ensure seamless functionality. • Contributed to enhancing the app's performance through optimizations. • Maintained and extended existing features, and played a key role in defining new 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 a team that developed, maintained, and extended the system. • Contributed to improving system performance. • Assisted in defining and refining product features.
React frontend for Poleo (Chile)
Jan `20 - Mar `20
2 months
Alsea
The 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 store in Chile, to report daily sales. Interacts with external systems (such as POSs) to gather sales information.
Responsibilities & achievements
• Led the team responsible for developing the new user interface for Chile, including necessary backend changes. • Trained teammates in object-oriented programming (OOP), test-driven development (TDD), and best practices to enhance development skills. • Enhanced the build and deployment processes, streamlining operations and improving efficiency.
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
• Led the development team for the system, providing guidance and direction throughout the project. • Conducted training sessions for teammates on object-oriented programming (OOP), test-driven development (TDD), and best practices to enhance software development skills. • Improved the build and deployment processes, increasing efficiency and reducing deployment times.
React frontend for Watci
Dec `18 - May `19
5 months
Alsea
The issue tracking system used by every Starbucks and Burger King store in Argentina, and every Starbucks, Burgerking, PF Chang’s, and Chili’s store 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
• Led the team responsible for developing the new user interface, including implementing necessary changes to the backend. • Trained teammates in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and best practices to enhance software development proficiency. • Enhanced the build and deployment processes, increasing efficiency and streamlining operations.
React frontend for Poleo (Argentina)
May `18 - Dec `18
7 months
Alsea
The 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 store in Chile, to report daily sales. Interacts with external systems (such as POSs) to gather sales information.
Responsibilities & achievements
• Led the team responsible for developing the new user interface, including implementing necessary changes to the backend. • Trained teammates in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and best practices to enhance software development proficiency. • Enhanced the build and deployment processes, increasing efficiency and streamlining operations.
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
• Led the team through the process of gathering requirements and designing solutions for system enhancements. • Oversaw development, refactoring, and maintenance of the system to ensure ongoing functionality and improvements. • Trained teammates in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and best practices to elevate development skills and project outcomes.
Ticketmaster
Jan `16 - Aug `16
7 months
Ticketmaster
Industry-leading ticket-selling platform.
Responsibilities & achievements
• Contributed to the development of a new ticket-selling platform, redesigned to enhance user experience (UX), boost sales, and offer new services to end users. • Played a key role in critical-path projects aimed at achieving a 75% traffic redirection goal from the old platform to the new one.
ConnectedHealth Platform
Jun `12 - Jan `16
4 years
ConnectedHealth
Health insurance marketplace for individuals and groups.
Responsibilities & achievements
• Contributed to the team that evolved a basic medical product marketplace into a sophisticated ecosystem for health products. • The enhanced platform facilitated seamless employee enrollment in a diverse range of health products, allowing utilization of employer contributions and access to federal tax credits.
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Remote
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