César Augusto Méndez Vargas
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
César is a systems engineer with in-depth and far-ranging experience managing and creating projects from the very beginning. He particularly loves the research and collaboration aspects of projects. Technically, what César cares about the most is the performance, database structure, algorithms, and simplicity of the system as a whole. He's curious, collaborative, holistic, and a team player.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), CentOS, Windows 10
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve done was reduce the time for a crucial process on a fantasy sports app from several minutes to only two seconds on average.
Work Experience
Systems Engineer
Nexo Global
- Supervised a small team of developers, helping them to deliver high-quality and useful features.
- Automated code deployments to staging and production.
- Created the guidelines for development and communication.
- Oversaw the analysis and development of complex and/or big features.
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 75%.
Systems Engineer
Freelance Work
- Built an online grade reporting tool for a public school.
- Developed a makeup artists' video tutorial platform based on WordPress and Vue.js with features such as channels, likes, and products (specifically those listed on the platform's makeup videos).
- Performed several software features implementation analyses for companies in terms of viability and the best approach for implementation.
- Automated the booking system for a small hotel in Brazil.
- Created a system for a company that rented audiovisuals to universities to manage device availability, have a list where all the devices where rented, easily see who was responsible for each rental, and manage the daily operation of incomes and expenses.
Lead Software Engineer
SellHound
- Led a team of five developers with different stacks: AI, mobile, and full stack.
- Reduced the loading time of the main platform component from an average of 15 seconds to just 1.5 seconds.
- Created a business intelligence ecosystem allowing company directors to access unprecedented reports and key metrics.
Full-stack Engineer
BrightIO
- Built a Laravel platform that allowed the clients to track every aspect of their business in an easy but powerful way.
- Created a Whatsapp and telegram bot capable of interacting with user requests.
- Constructed an OCR system that takes financial statements and highlights critical information.
- Developed a web platform capable of communicating with physical devices on the user's endpoint.
- Crafted a web scrapper to collect data from several endpoints to automate data entry.
Experience
MillonarIO
https://www.millonar.io/Basically, it is an ecosystem of numerous devices (such as Android POS, Web POS, thermal printers, Bluetooth printers, etc.) with all of them communicating via a network in order to conduct the operational part of the business.
Furthermore, it relies on arbitrary decimal precision computations, a lot of reporting, data analysis, security, and a wide variety of settings. All of this enables the business owners to manage their business operations parameters, especially to control their risk for monetary loss.
Bantasy
Servidores Activos
https://www.servidoresactivos.comThe platform itself is tied with a lot of automation and user tracking tools to make improvements based on user data and ease the workflow process.
Forfin Intranet
Capital Project
Sentiment Analysis Applied to Dominican Tweets
For this task, we built a multi-step pipeline and we employed human annotators with a strong background in linguistics working on a small number of texts from microblogs to compare the results.
The pipeline consisted of steps such as cleaning the text by removing URLs, hashtags, and mentions. This also included tokenizing and normalizing the tweets and then doing some calculations to analyze the tweet.
Business Bridge
Skills
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, Sass, HTML, Python, Ruby, C++, Go
Frameworks
Laravel, Divi, PhalconPHP, Electron, Cypress, PHPUnit, Flutter
Paradigms
Unit Testing, Agile, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), App Development, REST
Platforms
WordPress, Linux, Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, CentOS, Ubuntu, MacOS, Android
Libraries/APIs
Vuex, Vue, Pusher, Redis Queue, Node.js, jQuery, Socket.IO
Storage
MariaDB, MySQL, Redis, Redis Cache, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Bots, Cordova, Full-stack, API Integration, Web Scraping, Windows 10, Yoast SEO, Galera Cluster, Elementor, OCR, Text Mining, Image Processing, Chrome Plugins
Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio, Jenkins, Git, Apache Qpid, NGINX, Jira, Trello, Slack, Microsoft Power BI
Education
Flutter Developer in Software Development
Universidad Abierta Para Adultos (UAPA) - Santiago, Dominican Republic
Bachelor's Degree in Systems and Computing Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra - Santiago, Dominican Republic
IT Technologist Diploma in Information Technology
La Centenaria - Santiago, Dominican Republic
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