
Ramiro Agustin Palacios
Verified Expert in Engineering
C#.NET Developer
Málaga, Spain
Toptal member since April 6, 2013
Ramiro is a PMP Certified ScrumMaster and experienced systems engineer with over ten years of software development experience in Microsoft environments. He's self-taught, self-motivated, and proactive. With an innovative attitude, he is committed to the use of best practices to produce high quality applications.
Portfolio
Experience
- SQL - 10 years
- C# - 7 years
- Visual Basic 6 (VB6) - 7 years
- Technical Project Management - 4 years
- Project Management - 4 years
- Entity 4 - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
SQL, Subversion (SVN), TFS, VB.NET, C#, Microsoft Visual Studio
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was an eCommerce solution for a major UK company, for which I worked as the lead developer and the focal point with the client.
Work Experience
Senior Developer
Toptal
- Developed a distributed system with a mix of technologies from ASP.NET to MVC 3.
- Responsible for software development for the solution using C#, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET, MVC 3, EF 4.1, Fiddler 2, SQL Server 2008/2012, IIS, VS 2012, Ajax, JavaScript, and jQuery.
- Responsible for builds automation using TFS 2012.
- Maintained technical contact with client’s architects, technical leaders, and development partners.
- Responsible for requirements analysis and backlog management using Jira.
- Responsible for query and maintenance of SQL Server databases that manages thousands of transactions every day.
Technical Manager
Globant
- Worked as focal point of eCommerce service solution recently developed.
- Handled resolution of build issues.
- Organized team to accelerate development and deployment processes.
- Performed extensive testing and debugging.
- Evaluated app performance under various user conditions, in particular focusing on performance across operating systems.
Software Developer
Globant
- Developed a distributed/cloud-computing system based on MVC 3, Silverlight and WCF technologies, MarkLogic, and SQL Server databases, that allows the user to browse, view, purchase, subscribe, and download more than 50,000 British Standards covering a broad range of disciplines for all industry sectors.
- Analyzed and developed a generic eCommerce solution for all BSI, applications creating a cart to manage the purchase of BSI products.
- Performed software development for BSOL using C#, .NET 4.0, WCF, WWF, ASP.NET MVC 3, EF 4.1, AppFabric, Fiddler 2, Rhino Mocks, SQL Server 2008, IIS, MarkLogic, VS 2010, Ajax, Javascript, jQuery, and more.
- Automated build process using TFS 2010 and PowerShell.
- Planning meetings to generate timeline estimates.
- Ran standup meetings to share progress to-date and status of the delivery.
- Showcased meetings to show the finished and tested work to the Client (Product Owners, Project Managers, Enterprise Architect, etc.).
- Maintained technical contact with client’s architects, technical leaders, and development partners.
- Deployed and configured the application in QA environments.
- Performed requirements analysis and unit testing definition.
- Worked on-site for 3 months at BSI Offices in Chiswick, London, UK.
Systems Manager
Comunicaciones Moviles S.A.
- Analyzed, designed, and developed administrative software.
- Worked as team's technical reference, in charge of two developers.
- Negotiated new features, enhancements, releases, meetings, and payments with the customer.
- Created test-driven development training, used in the last release.
- Developed a new system menu with jQuery that was reused by other developers.
- Developed a new feature to compare various files through conversion to XML.
- Created system database, indices, quires, relationships, structure, and data transformation services.
- Deployed administrative software and trained staff to use said software.
Business Analyst,
Compañía de Tecnologías Latinoamericana
- Analyzed, designed, and developed software for quality certification based on Pectra BPM.
- Negotiated new features, enhancements, releases, and meetings with the customer.
- Deployed software for quality certification.
- Trained client staff to use the quality certification software.
Business Analyst, Developer
Traiding S.A.
- Analyzed, designed, and developed administrative software.
- Negotiated new features, enhancements, releases, meetings and payments with the customer.
- Created system database, indices, queries, relationships, structure, and data transformation services.
- Trained staff to use the developed tools.
Experience
TIGRE
Flexible and dynamic, TIGRE remains current with the ever changing credit and compliance environment.
British Standards On-Line (BSOL)
Also included a generic eCommerce solution for all BSI applications, creating a cart to manage the purchase of BSI products.
Education
Certified Scrum Master Degree in Scrum - Agile methodologies
Scrum Alliance - Cordoba
Certified Project Management Professional Degree in Project Management
Project Management Institute - Buenos Aires
Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering
National Technological University - Cordoba, Argentina
Skills
Libraries/APIs
LINQ, Windows Forms (WinForms), jQuery UI, Win32 API, jQuery, Windows API
Tools
Notepad++, TFS, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Jira, Fiddler, Visual SourceSafe, VirtualBox, Microsoft Visual Studio, Subversion (SVN), Visio, Adobe Dreamweaver, IBM Rational Rose, OpenVPN, Fireworks
Languages
C#, Visual Basic 6 (VB6), SQL, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), Active Server Pages (ASP), Java, VB.NET, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, UML, XML/XSLT
Frameworks
Entity, ASP.NET MVC 3, Entity 4, ASP.NET, Rhino Mocks, .NET, WWF, NHibernate, Json.NET
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Scrum, Unit Testing, Model View Controller (MVC), Pair Programming, Test-driven Development (TDD), Design Patterns, XP, Extreme Programming, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Refactoring
Platforms
Windows, Win32
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Storage
SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), JSON
Other
Requirements & Specifications, Technical Project Management, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Payment Gateways, IIS, eCommerce, Data Warehouse Design, Data Warehousing, Ajax, Regular Expressions
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