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Simon Santiago Soriano
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Toptal member since June 10, 2015
Bio
Simon is a software engineer with over six years of experience in the back end, distributed systems, CI, and web development. An ex-Uber employee and a founder of Salonomi.com, Simon has co-authored the paper "Keeping Master Green at Scale" (published at EuroSys '19) and created two 5-star rated courses about Ruby and Ruby on Rails for Platzi, the largest online tech school in Latin America.
Portfolio
Salonomi.com
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sidekiq, React, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Uber
Java, Python, Bash, Agile Software Development
Infuse.us
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, PhoneGap, Ionic, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Experience
- Java - 6 years
- Ruby - 6 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 6 years
- React - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 4 years
- JavaScript - 3 years
- Go - 3 years
- Python - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Command-line Interface (CLI), Sublime Text, Atom, Git, Ubuntu, MacOS
The most amazing...
...work I've done was at Uber—I led the development of remote execution and caching for the build system, achieving 2x build time improvements in 50% of CI jobs.
Work Experience
Founder and Lead Developer
2015 - PRESENT
Salonomi.com
- Optimized slow queries and page load time, leading to a 500% performance boost.
- Developed a reservations module using React.
- Migrated the app from Heroku to a Flynn cluster in AWS.
- Architected the MVP for Salonomi.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sidekiq, React, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Senior Software Engineer
2017 - 2020
Uber
- Led the development and implementation of remote execution and remote caching for the build system, achieving two times build time improvements in 50% of CI jobs for the largest repository in the company.
- Co-designed and co-developed a test analysis platform capable of processing millions of test results per hour.
- Co-authored "Keeping Master Green at Scale" paper, published at EuroSys '19.
Technologies: Java, Python, Bash, Agile Software Development
Software Engineer
2016 - 2016
Infuse.us
- Developed an MVP of a mobile application using Ruby on Rails for the back end, Ionic for the front end, and PayPal and Stripe as payment gateways.
- Built new features and fixed bugs for a Point of Sale System developed using Ruby on Rails, ActiveAdmin, and Ionic.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, PhoneGap, Ionic, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Software Engineer and Mentor
2015 - 2015
Make It Real Camp
- Developed a code evaluator module using Docker containers, Dokku, and Sidekiq. This module can evaluate HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, and even Rails projects.
- Oversaw code maintenance, deployment, continuous integration, monitoring, and overall performance of the platform.
- Designed and implemented code challenges for the web development learning platform.
- Implemented new features for the web development learning platform.
- Recorded screencasts about web technologies.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, DigitalOcean, Sidekiq, Dokku, Docker, RSpec, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Software Engineer
2014 - 2015
Elibom
- Led the development of Datapagos, a payments platform for Colombia.
- Developed the back end as a RESTful API with Ruby on Rails.
- Migrated the front end from Ruby on Rails to AngularJS.
- Implemented integration with two payment processors.
- Managed the deployment and development using AWS.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), SOAP, RSpec, Angular, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Software Engineer
2014 - 2014
PayU Latam
- Extended a payment platform that supports over 90% of online payments in Colombia and over 40% of online payments in Latin America.
- Refactored unit tests that looked like integration tests.
- Created test fixtures for almost every class I touched.
- Reduced the execution time for tests.
- Implemented a new payment method.
Technologies: Spring, Java
Founder and Software Engineer
2013 - 2014
Wazones
- Developed two mobile applications financed by the Colombian government.
- Constructed Yo Reporto, an app that lets Colombians report natural disasters in their vicinity.
- Developed APIs using Node.js.
- Built a module that renders statistics using PhoneGap and Google Charts.
- Supported Android and iOS.
Technologies: Heroku, JavaScript, Node.js, PhoneGap
Experience
Slack Visitor
https://github.com/simon0191/slack-visitorSlack Visitor is a Slack app that lets you accept chats from Slack outsiders through a web client that you can embed on your web page. Useful for teams that want to provide chat support directly from Slack.
Toptal Open Source Grant
Recipient of the first Toptal Open Source Grant.
Selected Open Source Contributions
https://github.com/simon0191I've made contributions to Ruby, Go, Rust, Bash, and JavaScript to different projects ranging from native extension libs to SDKs and PaaS.
• https://github.com/mattermost/platform/commits?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/mattyr/flynn-pgbackups/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/flynn/flynn/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/d-unseductable/ruru/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/steveklabnik/ruby-sys/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb/commits/master/?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/ducksoupdev/vue-webpack-typescript/commits/?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/simon0191/slack-visitor
• https://github.com/simon0191/custom-ssh-key-buildpack
• https://github.com/simon0191/fast_priority_queue
• https://github.com/simon0191/date_supercharger
• https://github.com/mattermost/platform/commits?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/mattyr/flynn-pgbackups/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/flynn/flynn/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/d-unseductable/ruru/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/steveklabnik/ruby-sys/commits/master?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb/commits/master/?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/ducksoupdev/vue-webpack-typescript/commits/?author=simon0191
• https://github.com/simon0191/slack-visitor
• https://github.com/simon0191/custom-ssh-key-buildpack
• https://github.com/simon0191/fast_priority_queue
• https://github.com/simon0191/date_supercharger
Fast Priority Queue
https://github.com/simon0191/fast_priority_queueDeveloped a Ruby native extension written in Rust that implements a priority queue 130 times faster than a pure Ruby implementation.
SlashBox
My team won AngelHack Bogota 2016 building SlashBox.co, an application that lets you save, share, and search for data through a Slack command and a web dashboard.
Date Supercharger
https://github.com/simon0191/date_superchargerDate Supercharger is a gem that adds _between, _between_inclusive, _after, _after_or_at, _before, and _before_or_at methods to every date/datetime field of Active Record models.
Prometeo
Web application to administrate accreditations and courses offered for the Red Hat Latam Partner Enablement Team.
Developed using Ruby on Rails.
Developed using Ruby on Rails.
Suppliers Admin Platform
Web application to manage the suppliers of a five-star hotel.
Developed using Ruby on Rails.
Developed using Ruby on Rails.
TheRokuBalance
Heroku has released new tiers where free features are becoming thinner and thinner. We provide a solution by helping you switch easily between two servers, and therefore helping you maintain freedom forever.
Competitive Programming Network | Contest Registration Site
Competitive Programming Network reunites more than 300 contestants monthly from all around the world. As a volunteer, I'm developing the web application that handles team registrations.
Chrome Dev Tools Article
Article about Chrome DevTools.
Yo Reporto
App that lets Colombians report natural disasters in their vicinity. The development was financed by the Colombian government and the app has 4.4 stars in Google Play.
Programming Competitions
WINNER: Colombian collegiate programming league. (Best results: First and third place)
TOP 10: Participated in four qualifying rounds for the ACM ICPC regionals. (Best results: 7th and 9th place out of 109 teams)
MENTOR: Trainer for a university rookie programming marathons team (2011 - 2013)
TOP 10: Participated in four qualifying rounds for the ACM ICPC regionals. (Best results: 7th and 9th place out of 109 teams)
MENTOR: Trainer for a university rookie programming marathons team (2011 - 2013)
Education
2009 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Pontifical Xavierian University - Colombia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, React Redux, React, Node.js, jQuery, Sidekiq, Vue
Tools
Git, Atom, Sublime Text, RSpec, GitHub
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Go, SCSS, HTML, Java, CSS, Markdown, Bash, ECMAScript (ES6), Rust
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails 4, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby on Rails 3, Spring, PhoneGap, Ionic, Angular, Chrome
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Scrum, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, MacOS, DigitalOcean, Heroku, Dokku, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Unix
Storage
PostgreSQL, Redis
Other
Command-line Interface (CLI), SOAP, Computer Science, SSH
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