Alejandro Cuenca Estrada
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Web Developer
Mexico City, Mexico
Toptal member since March 22, 2022
Alejandro is a software developer who enjoys constantly learning while solving problems and creating value. He quickly adapts to the current project's needs and has worked on early-stage startups building the first product iterations and scaling them as they grow. Alejandro has developed many projects based on the experience gathered working in agencies, freelancing, hackathons, and helping friends.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 4 years
- SQL - 3 years
- Python - 2 years
- Vue - 2 years
- React Native - 2 years
- React - 2 years
- Docker - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
WebStorm, MacOS, Chrome, Discord, iTerm2
The most amazing...
...experience I've had in my career is joining and growing with two startups since their beginning, each raising $4+ million.
Work Experience
Technical Product Owner | Individual Contributor
Vest
- Transitioned to a hybrid position of an individual contributor and technical product owner.
- Defined the roadmap collaborating with the product and compliance team.
- Wrote the technical documentation needed to get a government license to provide financial services.
Senior Developer
Vest
- Developed a mobile app that enables people from Latin America to invest in the USA stock market to build a better financial future.
- Collaborated with business experts to approve the compliance process and get our broker-dealer license with FINRA.
- Built the first iterations of our CI/CD pipeline, which allowed our team to increase the deployment speed from one deployment a month to several deployments a day.
- Created the KYC process in the mobile app that was required to open an investment account.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Minu
- Built the foundations of the mobile application and developed the product's core features.
- Planned and developed an internal tool to segment audiences and send promotions via push notifications.
- Planned and developed the debt collection system that enabled the business to establish integration methods with clients.
- Led a development project to create a self-service onboarding process.
Software Developer
Mazing Studio
- Collaborated on designing the architecture to develop a cryptocurrencies exchange for a client with a focus on distributed systems.
- Developed the front end for the cryptocurrencies exchange, facing challenges like handing real-time data and implementing charts with D3.js.
- Implemented the redesign of the eCommerce platform for a comic-book store.
- Built prototypes for internal projects, including an app on Electron to manage a CLI tool.
- Improved the performance of an Android app for a client.
Experience
Vest, Inc.
Around
https://around.to/Minu App
https://minu.mx/Skills
Libraries/APIs
Vue, React, Node.js, D3.js, Google Maps, RxJS
Tools
WebStorm, Notion, Expo, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Jenkins
Languages
JavaScript, Python, SQL, Elixir, Go, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, Python 3
Frameworks
Chrome, React Native, Django, Electron, Nuxt.js, gRPC
Paradigms
Functional Programming
Platforms
MacOS, AWS Lambda, Android, iOS, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Other
iTerm2, Mobile Apps, Mobile App Development, Discord, Cordova, Pulumi, Front-end, CI/CD Pipelines
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