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Hire GabrielGabriel Bursztein
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Full-stack Developer
Montevideo Montevideo Department, Uruguay
Toptal member since June 16, 2020
Bio
Gabriel is an active full-stack developer with enthusiasm for the capabilities of React and Ruby on Rails. Over the years, Gabriel has helped startups to transform their visions into reality. He's worked within agile methodologies to deliver high-quality code every sprint to the customer. As a whole, Gabriel is a product-oriented person who loves to find ways to improve the product continuously.
Portfolio
Draftea
Go, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
Channels
Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), React, React Native, GraphQL, RSpec, Cypress, Stripe
Rootstrap
GitHub, HTML, CSS, SQL, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Ruby, Heroku, Redis...
Experience
- SQL - 4 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 3 years
- PostgreSQL - 3 years
- React - 3 years
- Ruby - 3 years
- MongoDB - 2 years
- Go - 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
GitHub, Slack
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a peer-to-peer educational platform that connected users through video calls, phone calls, and chats.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
2021 - PRESENT
Draftea
- Helped build an MVP in under two months. The back end was hosted in AWS.
- Designed and built an event-based architecture to calculate players' and lineup scores. It was designed to support more than 100 thousand users. Technologies used included Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, and SQS.
- Developed integration with multiple sport data providers.
Technologies: Go, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
Senior Full-Stack Developer
2020 - 2021
Channels
- Helped launch the company's MVP, building a significant number of new features.
- Mentored junior developers and helped them to adapt quickly to our codebase.
- Integrated a tool to measure the site's performance. With those results, some actions were taken in order to improve the site.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), React, React Native, GraphQL, RSpec, Cypress, Stripe
Full-stack Developer
2017 - 2020
Rootstrap
- Co-developed a project-and-resource management platform to help automate internal processes, including developing the React front end and Rails back end.
- Designed and coded multiple APIs for a wide variety of projects.
- Coached junior developers with Ruby on Rails and React.
- Contributed to an open-source gem by fixing bugs.
- Developed hundreds of tests using BDD (behavior-driven development).
- Reviewed and improved several pull requests for other projects.
Technologies: GitHub, HTML, CSS, SQL, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Ruby, Heroku, Redis, PostgreSQL, React Native, React, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Full-stack Developer
2016 - 2017
ISA
- Developed a platform to aid an Uruguayan public company with its hiring process, developing software using XPages, a Java extension.
- Tracked and fixed bugs on multiple internal tools.
- Gathered information and wrote the requirements to help rebuild a platform, observing and interviewing users of the system to understand their needs and interaction with the system.
Technologies: HTML, SQL
Experience
Basketball Platform
https://cross-court.com/I developed a basketball platform in which users can book a court for a 1-hour session. The system included multiple users, an admin website, and more. I developed the back end and front end using the following technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and Stripe.
E-learning P2P Platform
I contributed to the development of a learning platform with live lectures with the following features: chats, video calls, and phone calls for up to 15 minutes. I was tasked with API development and used technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Sockets, and Twilio.
eCommerce Platform
I developed an eCommerce platform in Ecuador that people could use to order products from different local stores. The platform included four mobile apps and an admin site. I co-developed the Rails back end and took part in mobile development, using the following technologies: Ruby on Rails, React Native, Sockets, and Google APIs.
URL Shortener
This is a web app that can be used to shorten URLs. Users can insert a long URL and receive a new one as short as possible and easy to share. Users can see the most visited sites as well. I used Ruby on Rails to develop the back end and React for the front end.
Education
2014 - 2019
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
ORT University - Montevideo, Uruguay
Certifications
MARCH 2017 - PRESENT
Business Program, Entrepreneurship Studies
Tel Aviv University
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, REST APIs, Stripe
Tools
GitHub, RSpec, Slack
Languages
Ruby, GraphQL, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Go
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Redux, React Native, Cypress
Paradigms
Behavior-driven Development (BDD)
Platforms
Heroku
Storage
PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra
Other
APIs, Full-stack
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