José Vicente Ruiz Cepeda
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Madrid, Spain
Toptal member since June 21, 2022
Jose is a seasoned entrepreneur, freelancer, and developer. He has co-founded two startups that raised millions of dollars and led them on the technical side as the chief technology officer. He also holds a master's degree in machine learning from Columbia University. Jose excels at finding the best ways to create value for a business in an agile fashion, thanks to his experience wearing multiple hats, such as strategy, product, design, and marketing, and his deep knowledge of technology.
Portfolio
Experience
- Agile Product Delivery - 6 years
- Lean Startups - 6 years
- TypeScript - 4 years
- Node.js - 4 years
- Software Architecture - 4 years
- React - 4 years
- Leadership - 4 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
TypeScript, Python, SQL, Artificial Intelligence (AI), React, Machine Learning
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is FounderNest, a platform with an AI/NLP core that tracks millions of companies allowing their users to find them based on their unique needs.
Work Experience
Technology Consultant
426 Code
- Designed and implemented OKR at the strategic level, overseeing and iterating its development for several cycles.
- Advised the C-level of the company in topics such as Product Management, Data Strategy, Artificial Intelligence, Agile Software Delivery, generative cultures, etc.
- Mentored the internal development team in following software engineering and DevOps best practices.
Technical Lead
Freelance
- Developed and maintained a back-end following clean architecture and used TypeScript, NestJS, Prisma, and GraphQL (Apollo).
- Implemented a multi-platform mobile application with TypeScript, React Native, GraphQL (Apollo), and Tailwind. The architecture was component-based and Clean-inspired in the division of layers.
- Built and maintained a set of scrapers to extract public wine information from competing websites as a way to bootstrap our database.
Co-founder and CTO
FounderNest
- Implemented, extended, and maintained an AI engine to extract features from 2+ million startups' data and match them with the description of the user needs using NLP.
- Implemented, extended, and maintained 10+ crawlers, scrapers, and API adapters to find, extract, and keep updated over two million companies with all their information, such as team, funding, sector, technologies, and patents.
- Implemented, extended, and maintained a TypeScript-written back end (Node.js and NestJS), two front ends (React and Redux), a user dashboard, and an admin panel.
- Found, recruited, and retained a highly talented team of software engineers, creating and nurturing a world-class technical culture along the way. Hired 10+ engineers and interviewed 100+.
- Iterated internal working processes and communication channels, including our product management culture, to reduce bottlenecks and improve efficiency.
- Evangelized and supported the implementation of a data-driven culture rooted in OKRs and business intelligence across the whole company.
- Communicated with other teams frequently to understand their needs and how to use technology to create value for them.
- Represented the company publicly at events and supported fundraising.
Co-founder and CTO
Relendo
- Found, recruited, and retained a talented team of junior software engineers, creating and nurturing a high-level technical culture.
- Iterated internal working processes and communication channels to reduce bottlenecks and improve efficiency.
- Implemented, extended, and maintained the rental platform with SOA, including its RESTful API and SEO-optimized responsive website.
- Supervised the implementation of native Android and iOS applications with clean architecture.
- Designed, implemented, and executed growth hacking strategies to acquire users and products with zero marketing budget.
Experience
FounderNest | AI Scout for Investors and Corporates
https://foundernest.com/I acted as the CTO and coordinated a team that grew from just myself to seven developers over two years. As such, I led the implementation of the core AI models and the initial data extraction and normalization infrastructure. I also designed the architecture of the back and the front ends and took an important role in extending them in terms of new functionalities and adjustments.
Relendo | P2P and B2C Rental Marketplace
https://startupsreal.com/relendo-an-attractive-collaborative-consumption-project/Wine Collections Tracking App
The functionalities included signup/login with authentication, the multi-faceted search of wines within a user collection, including a map view of wine origins, search with images taken from the camera, custom cellar creation for users, including multiple levels with sub-levels, and the ability to place wine bottles in any of them. This included the addition of new bottles and consumption of them, along with tasting notes equivalent to reviews.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Columbia University - New York City, NY, USA
Exchange Program in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Champaign, IL, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Polytechnic University of Valencia - Valencia, Spain
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, REST APIs, jQuery, Google Sheets API, Stripe, Stripe API, GitHub API, D3.js, Puppeteer
Tools
Google Analytics, Prisma, Expo, Figma
Languages
TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, Python, Java, Ruby, GraphQL, C++, PHP
Frameworks
React Native, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap, Material UI, Redux, Tailwind CSS, NestJS
Storage
Databases, JSON, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Paradigms
Microservices, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Scrum, Kanban, Automation, Mobile Development, Business Intelligence (BI), DevOps, Agile, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Clean Architecture, OLAP
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Android, iOS, Azure
Other
Agile Product Delivery, Technical Hiring, Scraping, Full-stack, Web Scraping, APIs, Architecture, Web Development, Source Code Review, Code Review, Task Analysis, Interviewing, Team Management, Web Search, CTO, Full-stack Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Engineering Software, Leadership, Lean Startups, Growth Hacking, Data Cleaning, Computer Graphics, SaaS, Technical Leadership, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Algorithms, Compilers, Computer Vision, Discrete Mathematics, Project Planning, Agile Coaching, Strategy, Analytics, Data Engineering, CI/CD Pipelines, Native Mobile Apps, Scrumban, Normalization, SEO Tools, Search, Scripting, Domain-driven Design (DDD), Product Management, Software Engineering, OAuth, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), OpenAI GPT-3 API
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