Esteban Muñoz Solís
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Toptal member since August 29, 2015
Esteban has over 13 years of experience developing software and 11 years developing full-stack web applications in Ruby on Rails. He's used to working both remotely and directly with clients. This experience has given him excellent communication skills with both clients and co-workers. He has a master's degree, is very proactive, and likes professional challenges, so he's always looking for projects that can make both him and the client grow.
Portfolio
Experience
- jQuery - 13 years
- Agile Software Development - 13 years
- Full-stack - 13 years
- Git - 12 years
- Ruby - 11 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 11 years
- APIs - 10 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Linux, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've helped code is a hardware/software solution for providing security and cryptographic processing, using network-attached encryption.
Work Experience
Co-owner and Software Engineer
EJE Digital
- Worked in several full-stack Ruby on Rails applications as senior software engineer for outsourcing clients.
- Provided guidance as technical lead for junior developers in the company.
- Managed in-house web applications using cutting-edge technologies as full-stack developer and technical lead.
Full-stack Web Developer
American Medical Professions Association (via Toptal)
- Built a complete web application from scratch, including features like profile management, social networking, document repository, and more.
- Wrote more than 500 automated tests for the app.
- Integrated the web application with some third party APIs.
- Took care of the administration of the web application, including setup steps for the code repository, hosting and assets, and the deployment process.
- Took care of the requirements analysis and design of the entire application.
- Kept constant communication with the client about requirements and project updates.
Software Engineer
Avantica Technologies
- Involved in design, development, testing, and maintenance activities for a security encryption software, both software and hardware related.
- Designed, developed, and tested an application in a web service that processed requests that were queued as they were received.
- Designed, developed, and tested a web application that created a meeting point for people with cancer and their friends and families.
- Analyzed requirements for a banking web application especially designed for teens. Also involved in the development of a prototype for this project.
- Oversaw a web application and API for an email marketing client.
IT Administrator and Software Developer
Reingeniería de Servicios S.A.
- Designed and developed software applications to facilitate the company’s management in all the required areas.
- Administrated the company's local network.
- Developed and managed one of the company’s web pages and its servers.
Experience
Costa Rican Citizen Registry Lookup
https://github.com/ejedigitalcr/people-lookup-crVerticalResponse API Wrappers
AvanticaGreen Web Application Game
https://github.com/estebanms/AvanticaGreenEducation
Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Costa Rica - San José, Costa Rica
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Costa Rica - San José, Costa Rica
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Ruby on Rails API, Node.js
Tools
Git, RSpec, Subversion (SVN)
Languages
Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, HTML, Sass, XML, CSS3, C, PHP, C#, Java, Perl, C++
Frameworks
ZURB Foundation, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap, Capybara, .NET, Zend Framework
Platforms
MacOS, Linux, Windows
Storage
JSON, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum
Other
Full-stack, APIs
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