Erick is available for hire

Erick Suarez

Verified Expert in Engineering

Back-end Systems Engineer and Developer

Location

Zapopan, Mexico

Toptal Member Since

August 16, 2022

Erick is a computer systems engineer focusing on software development. He is an expert in the software development lifecycle, especially the back end, and has experience working with Agile methodologies like Scrum. Erick will be a great addition to any team as a focused and dedicated lifelong learner.

Back-end Back-end Development Microservices Go Java Amazon Web Services (AWS)SQL TypeScript PostgreSQL Apache Kafka Algorithms Web Development Serverless Agile Software Development Slack

Portfolio

Brightcove

Go, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)...

VRBO

Java, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, Dropwizard, Microservices, Distributed Systems...

ENES Morelia

PHP, Java, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, MySQL, Back-end...

Experience

Microservices - 4 years Go - 3 years Java - 3 years Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years TypeScript - 2 years GoLand - 2 years Docker - 2 years Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Slack, Go, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GoLand, Back-end

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is a multi-region service for Brightcove that reduced the request latency by over 60%.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2020 - PRESENT

Brightcove

Reduced the request latency by over 60% using AWS S3 replication and DynamoDB streams.
Built a system to manage the concurrency in the videos per account configured by the client.
Migrated a replication system built in-house to a replication system using native functionalities of AWS S3 bucket.

Technologies: Go, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Back-end, APIs, Serverless, Back-end Development, Swagger, REST, Terraform, NoSQL, Software as a Service (SaaS), gRPC, Cloud Services

Software Engineer

2019 - 2020

VRBO

Developed a self-service system in Java to grant access to resources, which reduced support tickets by 50%.
Troubleshot different errors using Splunk to analyze logs.
Developed a system to handle 100,000 requests per minute using Kafka and Java.

Technologies: Java, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, Dropwizard, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Back-end, APIs, Back-end Development, Swagger, REST, Cloud Services, SQL

Web Developer

2017 - 2018

ENES Morelia

Developed an application to manage the resources assigned to each professor, reducing the total process time from one month to two weeks.
Improved their hiring system, which allows creating contracts directly in the system.
Migrated a system from PHP 6 to PHP 8 to fix security issues.

Technologies: PHP, Java, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, MySQL, Back-end, Back-end Development, CSS3, SQL

Experience

Concurrency Video Service

A microservice was written in Go to manage the concurrence of users using the same account. It is configurable for each client. I worked on the back end and mounted the app on AWS using DynamoDB as a storage service.

Skills

Languages

Go, Java, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS3, PHP

Paradigms

Microservices, REST, Agile Software Development

Platforms

Apache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes

Storage

PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB

Other

Back-end, Back-end Development, Algorithms, Web Development, APIs, Serverless, Cloud Services, Distributed Systems, Software as a Service (SaaS)

Frameworks

Angular, Dropwizard, Swagger, gRPC

Libraries/APIs

API Development, REST APIs, React

Tools

Slack, GoLand, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform

Education

2013 - 2018

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems and Networks

Technological Institute of Morelia - Morelia, Mexico

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