Jose Pablo Arce Cascante
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Engineer and Developer
Quesada, Provincia de Alajuela, Costa Rica
Toptal member since September 10, 2025
Jose is a talented and dedicated software engineer with nine years of experience. He has worked on exciting projects and is well-acquainted with full-stack development, single-page applications, RESTful APIs, MVC, and microservices architectures. Jose's main stack has been Ruby on Rails, React, and PostgreSQL for the past six years. He enjoys exploring new opportunities and sharing and creating meaningful experiences with his team members.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 7 years
- Software Development - 7 years
- Agile Project Management - 7 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 7 years
- PostgreSQL - 6 years
- Ruby - 6 years
- RSpec - 4 years
- React - 4 years
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Linux, Ruby, JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Ruby on Rails 6
The most amazing...
...thing I've contributed to was the development of a dealership locator tool, resolving numerous sales challenges for a US-based vehicle brand.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Svitla Systems
- Participated in a crucial role in aligning client requirements with the team's objectives by working across distinct areas within the same project. Enhanced the product's usability on the front and back end by ensuring a good UX.
- Contributed to the content section by making architectural decisions and scoping for other project areas.
- Engaged directly with a client by tailoring solutions to meet their specific needs. This involved analyzing, structuring, designing, and ultimately developing solutions in collaboration with other teams.
Software Engineer
Within
- Automated and made work easier for marketing employees by creating reports, budget pacers, automatic alerts, scheduled events that run at specific times, and third-party integrations like Google Ads, Shopify, Asana, Facebook, Twilio, etc.
- Built new components, visual tools, reports, and landing pages for the company's users and managers.
- Met with the clients' users, team members, stakeholders, and employees. Handled requested changes like reports, integrations, and alerts, or helped with troubleshooting.
- Built a historical/transactional data set of the Shopify items. This data set was updated twice daily to track all the information needed to be translated into business insights.
Software Developer
Nativo
- Worked as a front-end developer for an automobile brand in the US market. Rebuilt legacy modules using React, JavaScript components, and features like the web view design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility options.
- Served as a Ruby on Rails developer on an application based on full-stack architecture and independent RESTful APIs, hosted on AWS. Honey-Badger was used for monitoring and issue tracking.
- Developed a single-page app with React, created a RESTful API using Go and MongoDB as the database, aiming to provide a product for handling electronic invoices.
- Gained experience with batch scripts to deploy new changes to servers, external connections, and maintenance.
Data Entry Technician | Intern Developer
Avantica Technologies (Acquired by Encora)
- Focused on web scraping to capture metadata from job sites. Filtered that data using regular expressions to deploy a high-quality result.
- Created a desktop app using Electron with voice recognition, integrating cognitive services by Microsoft Azure, Spring Boot microservice using Docker, and data sync from the company's Active Directory.
- Trained new team members on the role by imparting a robust knowledge base derived from the experiences and insights of previous team members.
Experience
Spooky Bytes Website
Dr Git!
https://github.com/Pablo251/DoctorGitEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
National Technical University - San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Facebook API, Google Ads API, Sidekiq, Context API
Tools
RabbitMQ, Git, RSpec, AWS ELB
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby on Rails 6, Redux
Platforms
Heroku, Docker, MacOS, Linux, Shopify, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, Go
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile, Microservices Architecture, Unit Testing, Agile Project Management
Storage
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Databases, Azure Active Directory, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Software Development, Back-end Development, Front-end Development, Batch Scripting, Networking, IT Audits, Quality Assurance (QA), IP Networks, Data Mining, Facebook Ads
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