Erik Escobedo
Verified Expert in Engineering
Web Development Developer
For more than several years now, Erik has been writing software for a living, and he'd love to keep doing so far into the future. Telecommuting-wise, he's been working and communicating remotely for almost nine years now. He has worked with Ruby on Rails for the backend, along with all kinds of front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and both React and React Native.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Heroku, Vim Text Editor, GitHub, Git, MacOS
The most amazing...
...feature I've coded is a search engine capable of look for a neighborhood with a similar life style with the given one but located in another geographical zone.
Work Experience
Team Leader
Freelance Work
- Led a freelancer guild group—composed of local programmers sharing an office space; sometimes working independently, sometimes working on the same projects.
- Interviewed and met with leads and customers—helping them to design product strategies and software solutions.
- Taught and empowering the younger members of the group as well as consulting on their projects.
- Led shared projects and made technology decisions—like what platform to use, what libraries to implement, and what code styles to follow.
- Designed a system and database for both shared and individual projects.
Web Developer
Simulation Curriculum
- Worked alongside David Whips (the winner of the Apple Design Awards 2013).
- Led a three-person team assembled by the client—delegating tasks and reporting directly to the client.
- Implemented an independent AngularJS module by using a private API provided by the client.
- Worked with vectors and geometry figures in order to allow students draw, drag, split, and reassemble colorful geometric shapes.
- Designed equations which allowed the user to add momentum when dragging movable panels.
Web Developer
MojoTech
- Worked alongside great people like Christopher Shoemaker—a former member of the Mozilla team.
- Built a beautiful human resources management tool using the most advanced front-end technologies available then.
- Worked on a huge real estate application for which I designed a powerful neighborhood search engine.
- Communicated remotely using tools like HipChat, Basecamp, and more for almost 3 years.
- Migrated an existing application from PHP to Ruby on Rails 3.0.
Experience
Worker
Neighborhood Scout
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/I worked as part of the team that migrated the back-end codebase from PHP to Ruby on Rails 3.0.
Allocate
http://www.allocatehq.com/I used Backbone along Marionette (a front-end framework) to work on the user interface for this project. Since this was a home project for the company I was working on then, I worked along and communicated with a huge number of developers.
Network of 30+ iOS/Android Apps
https://apps.apple.com/mx/developer/row27-mobile/id330236857?l=en#see-all/i-phone-appsSkills
Languages
SQL, CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Swift, Python
Frameworks
Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails (RoR), React Native, AngularJS, Ember.js
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, React, Google API, Marionette.js, Node.js, GitHub API
Tools
GitHub, RSpec, Pivotal Tracker, Slack, Git, Vim Text Editor, Bower, HipChat
Paradigms
RESTful Development, REST, Agile Software Development, Scrum
Other
Vi, Vectors, Algorithms, Web Development, Mathematics, Data Structures
Platforms
MacOS, Heroku, iOS
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Education
Completed Credits towards a Bachelor's Degree in Mechatronic Engineering
National Autonomous University of Mexico | UNAM - Mexico City, Mexico
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