Gustavo Zapata Quinonez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Gustavo is a senior full-stack developer specializing in web-based development, including eCommerce sites and fully responsive web platforms. He is skilled in JavaScript, Python, Redux, Git, Node.js, and React. He has eight years of experience building beautiful and robust websites and web apps for startups and enterprise-level organizations like Cisco, Ascential, and SHL. Gustavo is passionate about designing and engineering optimal digital solutions that offer a great user experience.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, Git, Node.js, React, Redux, Linux, JavaScript, Web Development, MongoDB
The most amazing...
...software I've developed is a web-based application for Ness Digital that allows doctors and clinics to control and manage surgeries and surgical supplies.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack Developer
Campus
- Developed and implemented client and server-side features on a web-based communications platform using messaging, call, and video call services.
- Designed user interfaces to meet the business requirements and architected a solution with performance and scalability in mind.
- Improved the server application's codebase written in Go by refactoring the endpoints, controllers, and WebSockets.
Product Developer
Ascential
- Developed and maintained digital solutions for hosting live events such as Cannes Lions Live, Money 20/20 US and Europe, and Digital Commerce Accelerator.
- Built UI components with React and Styled Components using an in-house component library bootstrapped with Storybook.
- Set up and spun up new platforms on AWS and implemented CI/CD using CircleCI.
- Deployed multiple services and applications to different environments for user acceptance testing and the stakeholders.
Full-stack Developer
Ubitech
- Prototyped and redesigned a web portal for users to manage their players and visualize the statistics for therapeutic gaming for cerebral palsy patients.
- Improved the existing server application written in Node.js and the Express framework.
- Designed and developed the authentication method using JSON Web Tokens.
Software Engineer
Cisco
- Integrated AppDynamics into an internal identity and access management system, wrapping all requests to have insights into users' activity within the system.
- Developed and implemented new features into Cisco's OneID web platform using JavaScript, React, and Redux.
- Contributed to the monthly releases of the software and helped the team with deployments to production.
Web Developer
SHL
- Designed and developed a client custom version of the Interview Guide Builder, a tool for creating interviews specific to job levels.
- Built a customized version of the tool for clients such as American Express, Mercedes-Benz, Nomad Foods, Capitec South Africa, and Societe Generale Hong Kong.
- Improved how clients add new content to the tool by creating an Excel file that emulates the actual website allowing users to easily add, remove, or change content.
Experience
TwentyFiveStore | An eCommerce Web App
UbiTheraPlay | A Web-based Application
https://app.ubitheraplay.com/Sewa by HelPal | A Web App for PayPal Hackathon 2019
Ness Digital | A Surgery Supplies Management App
https://app.nessdigital.co/Skills
Languages
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, Python, PHP, SQL, TypeScript, GraphQL, Kotlin, Swift, Assembly, Go
Frameworks
Redux, Express.js, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Gin-Gonic, Spring Boot, Django
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, Node.js
Paradigms
Agile
Platforms
MacOS, Web, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Android, Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, Raspbian, Raspberry Pi, Contentful, Netlify
Storage
Databases, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Other
Agile CRM, Web Development, APIs, Full-stack, Big Data, Data Modeling, Networking, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Algebra, Storybook, WebSockets, Gatsby, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Hardware, Sitecore, Digital Commerce, eCommerce
Tools
Git, Jenkins, Sequelize, Webpack, CircleCI, AppDynamics, Squirrel, Mongoose
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Kingston University London - London, United Kingdom
Access to Higher Education Diploma in Computer Science
Kingston College - London, United Kingdom
Certifications
Advanced React.js
Pluralsight
The Complete Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB Bootcamp 2020
Udemy
Learning Spring with Spring Boot
M220JS: MongoDB for JavaScript Developers
MongoDB University
Agile Foundation Certificate
Agile Business Consortium
Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python
FutureLearn
Google Developer Scholarship
Udacity
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