Federico Comesaña
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay
Toptal member since January 30, 2017
Federico is a results-driven, customer-focused, articulate, and analytical software engineer who loves challenges. He has an extensive background in the full cycle of software development process so he's got plenty of experience with web development. Professional development plays an important role with him so he keeps up to date with the different IT areas he works with so if Federico's not working, he's learning new technologies.
Portfolio
Experience
- Django REST Framework - 6 years
- Back-end - 6 years
- Linux - 6 years
- Django - 6 years
- Python - 6 years
- Teaching - 4 years
- Unit Testing - 4 years
- Angular - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Bitbucket, GitHub, WebStorm, PyCharm, Ubuntu
The most amazing...
...project I worked on was Subrayado. It was an important news website with several technical challenges i.e. build a CMS, high traffic support and async tasks.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack Developer
Toptal
- Developed an app for automation for Industry (PLC’s, AGV’s, conveyors, robots, vision cameras). Custom SCADA for the web using WebSockets for real-time communication.
- Launched processes for Warehouse automation (Conveyors, AGV's and Cranes) using Celery and Django-Rest Framework.
- Migrated a phone accessories eCommerce platform from Magento to Shopify.
Project Manager | Team Leader | Tech Leader
University of the Republic Faculty of Economics and Administration
- Implemented an administrative website for students at a university which allowed 500 people to plan together a one-year trip around the world.
- Performed requirements gathering and analysis. Did task estimation and project planning.
- Developed a website using Django and Celery for asynchronous tasks. The website is capable of event notification, assistance management, people tracking, travel diary, surveys, and fines.
- Implemented deployment and infrastructure using Fabric, Linode, MySQL, and Nginx.
- Performed search engine optimization (SEO) and performance optimizations for 500 concurrent users (Nginx caches, MySQL config, and Django queries).
Full-stack Developer
Pyspring
- Created a mobile app for iOS and Android using Apache Cordova. The app uses QR Code scanning and geolocation to retrieve information.
- Developed core APIs using Django Rest with 100% unit testing coverage.
- Implemented websites using Django and AngularJS with extensive unit test coverage. Also developed asynchronous tasks using Celery.
- Worked on deployment and infrastructure, setting up several VPS (databases, web servers, and security).
Web Developer
Overactive
- Involved in the full life-cycle of software development process at Overactive—including requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding and testing for high volume traffic websites.
- Developed a custom CMS and back-end of a portal website for a TV news program with social network integration (Facebook, Twitter and Disqus). Improve performance for high concurrent users, adding/ optimizing Memcached, Nginx cache, and Django queries and template rendering.
- Worked on the front-end and back-end of a TV provider website. In addition to showing programming, this website is connected to several payments gateway and other Entertainment providers such HBO Go, Fox Play and Hot Go, using SAML protocol for authentication.
- Worked on a an electronic financial system at Puerto Rico—performing management tasks and also being core back-end developer. Highlights: requirements analysis, legacy systems integration and payment gateway integration.
- Handled front-end tasks for online banking at Jamaica National Building Society's Electronic Financial Services.
Programming Teacher
ORT University
- Worked as a teacher of the subject Programming 1 and 2 at ORT Uruguay University.
- Did course planning.
- Handled course work and correcting tests.
Programming & Robotics Teacher
Ceibal Plan
- Worked on the Ceibal Project which is the implementation of the OLPC Project in Uruguay. My work mostly involved me teaching the programming and robotic courses organized by Ceibal and ORT Uruguay University at LATU.
- Taught at a training workshop for 500 high school teachers.
- Did short course planning.
Experience
Subrayado News website
http://www.subrayado.com.uyTCC Website
https://www.tcc.com.uyGrupo de Viaje de Ciencias Económicas
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Education
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
Universidad ORT Uruguay - Montevideo, Uruguay
Certifications
Certificate in English - Level 6
VGC International College
First Certificate in English Examination
University of Cambridge
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Fabric, OpenCV, jQuery, React Redux, React
Tools
Subversion (SVN), Git, NGINX, PyCharm, WebStorm, GitHub, Bitbucket, Celery, Karma, Apache
Languages
Python, Python 3, JavaScript, Scratch, CSS, Java, SQL, C#, C, Assembler, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), C++, HTML, TypeScript
Frameworks
Django, Django REST Framework, Bootstrap, .NET, Angular, Flask, Jasmine, PhoneGap, AngularJS, Redux
Storage
JSON, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, Redis, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server
Paradigms
REST, Unit Testing, Scrum
Platforms
Linux, Ubuntu, Windows
Industry Expertise
Teaching
Other
Teamwork, Back-end, Robotics, Communication, Computer Science, Software Engineering, WebSockets, VPS/VDS, Cordova, PICC, Unix Shell Scripting
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