
Camilo Bravo
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
Toptal member since June 7, 2016
Camilo has worked remotely on significant projects, including the NBC Olympics website. He stays current with emerging technologies while honing long-term skills like Haskell. With experience managing small development teams, he also served as CTO of a 30-person outsourcing company across Ecuador, Colombia, and New York.
Portfolio
Experience
- PHP - 18 years
- JavaScript - 13 years
- MySQL - 10 years
- Go - 7 years
- MongoDB - 7 years
- Drupal 8 - 5 years
- Symfony - 4 years
- Vue - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows, Linux
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is the 2014 NBC Olympics site on which many teams needed to be coordinated to bring a world-class Drupal experience to users.
Work Experience
CTO
PowerNotes
- Implemented new features integrating AI into the current system.
- Managed a small development team during the implementation of various features.
- Created a system to extract BI data using a custom data warehouse, mainly using Go, Kafka, and PostgREST.
- Managed the infrastructure for the project, including setting up DNS configuration with Amazon Route 53, monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch, load balancing, and administrating relational and document-based databases.
Head of Mobile Development
Monarq
- Developed a multiplatform mobile app for the Shelter Cluster to improve the efficiency of humanitarian aid.
- Came up with a flexible way of integrating Drupal content into a React Native mobile app so that the content stays cached on the phone and bandwidth usage is minimal.
- Launched the Shelter Cluster mobile app successfully.
Senior Software Engineer
Digital Intent
- Developed many features for existing projects, mainly using PHP, Go, and various flavors of JavaScript.
- Participated in a Scrum-style team using Jira to handle issue tracking.
- Created efficient standalone services using Go for file management, real-time commenting, and usage reporting.
Designer | Sole Developer
Facilitario
- Created an innovative way to organize activities meant for workshops.
- Designed UX wireframes for all pages on the website and visual design for the actual implementation.
- Collaborated closely with an Ecuadorian human rights institution to add initial content.
CMS Screener
Toptal
- Performed hundreds of technical interviews for applicants in the Drupal specialization.
- Created new tests and tasks used for the screening of Drupal developers.
- Helped grow the Drupal specialization in the Toptal network.
Chief Engineer
Hinted
- Implemented a complete redesign, revamping the back-end code to match the new face of the site.
- Led the development of new features, including being part of the decision process.
- Handled the development side of the project, including managing tasks for other developers.
- Designed custom logging and background processes to handle the more complex pieces of the project and generate reports used for decision-making.
- Handled a severe DDoS attack by implementing security features that effectively stopped the attacks.
Senior Drupal Back-end Developer
Appnovation
- Worked on several Drupal sites for clients, such as Pfizer and the Red Cross.
- Created custom Drupal modules to handle specific functionality, such as a "save for later" function for forms.
- Customized extensively the Entity Forms module.
Senior Developer | Tech Lead
Code and Theory
- Worked in developing huge websites for global audiences, the largest (NBC Olympics), handling over a billion visitors in less than a month.
- Led a small team of developers in implementing the San Francisco travel website.
- Handled a complex site migration (the Golf Channel site) to Drupal, including content import of thousands of articles.
- Fixed many issues involving load testing for high-traffic sites using tools like New Relic.
- Worked closely with teams from companies such as Google, Adobe, Akamai, and Acquia.
CTO
Jobsity
- Helped grow the company from only a handful of employees to over forty.
- Established processes and specialized systems for hiring and training developers. Involved in the professional growth of dozens of talented people.
- Created a system for tracking candidate developers on top of Drupal.
- Worked with many clients, mainly in the US and Canada, on high-profile projects such as the NBC Olympics website.
Co-founder | Architect | Lead Developer
Pricetag
- Architected and built the entire back-end of the application and coded a lot of its front end as well.
- Guided other developers who later worked on the project to ensure a stable codebase.
Sole Developer
Leyes del Ecuador
- Developed an iOS app to showcase Ecuadorian laws.
- Created a "virtual corkboard" function to take notes from the law texts, complete with skeuomorphic graphics and animations.
- Added in-app purchases for other laws.
Senior Developer
GoalQuest
- Created many base components for a custom PHP framework built from scratch, the most visible being a complex reusable "list view" component.
- Implemented functionality that reached thousands of users in the education sector.
Senior Developer
Funny Garbage
- Implemented functionality for a social network for military families (with the Sesame Street brand).
- Migrated the company website to Drupal, including a large portfolio section.
Independent Developer
Online Freelance Agency
- Achieved a perfect score for all the projects.
- Among many other projects, worked on an interesting script to parse poker game logs for PokerStars.com, extracting key information for the games.
- Implemented many bits of functionality for the MetroLyrics.com site, such as a copy/paste prevention script and various embeddable widgets.
Developer
Tanzanite Foundation
- Developed a Contacts application using .NET.
- Created a complex search page with custom filtering to sort through the contacts.
Developer
Mushoq
- Worked on several high-profile projects for Ecuador.
- Created a scalable search algorithm for a 100,000+ article newspaper site that reduced search times from over a minute to under a second.
Experience
Facilitario
http://facilitar.ioThis is still a work in progress, but there is some real content, and it has already been useful for creating workshops around the Ecuador 2016 earthquake.
Leyes del Ecuador for iOS
Acquia Grand Master Certification
http://certification.acquia.com/user/136Top 3% Overall in Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/users/368864/cambracaCModel
https://github.com/cambraca/CModelThe primary objective of this project was to construct a foundational model for Zend Framework. These classes enable seamless database mapping and provide convenient features such as automatic collections. While this code is not executable, the corresponding GitHub repository contains test code for evaluation purposes.
NBC Olympics Site
Publication: Political Campaining on Twitter and Artificial Virality
https://www.labarraespaciadora.com/ddhh/la-campana-en-twitter-y-la-viralidad-artificial/Education
Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFC) - Quito, Ecuador
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Vue, jQuery, Node.js, API Development, Facebook API, OpenAI API, X (formerly Twitter) API, Drupal API
Tools
Git, GitHub, PhpStorm, Adobe Lightroom, YouTrack, Jira, NGINX, NPM, Adobe Illustrator, Subversion (SVN), Adobe Photoshop, Apache, Let's Encrypt, Docker Compose, Grunt, Claude, Google Sheets
Languages
Sass, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, JavaScript, Go, Bash, VB.NET, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Java, Objective-C, Haskell, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, Regex
Platforms
Algolia, Drupal 8, Drupal 7, MacOS, Docker, Windows, Linux, Drupal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Omniture, Android, iOS, Zendesk, Apache Kafka, Acquia Cloud, New Relic
Storage
MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), JSON/XML Schemas, Memcached
Frameworks
React Native, Zend Framework, Symfony, Laravel, AngularJS, Prototype Framework, Svelte
Paradigms
Agile, Functional Programming, Scrum, Continuous Integration (CI), Load Testing
Other
Full-stack Development, Interviewing, Questionnaires, UX Wireframes, Training, Full-stack, Mentorship, Team Mentoring, Career Coaching, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Business Analysis, Chrome Extensions, Artificial Intelligence (AI), OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini API, Firefox Extensions, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, App UX, User Experience (UX), Programming, Cloud Infrastructure, Monitoring
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