Ramiro Agustin Palacios, Developer in Málaga, Spain
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Ramiro Agustin Palacios

Verified Expert  in Engineering

C#.NET Developer

Location
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.

Availability

Part-time

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

2013 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: SQL, ASP.NET, C#

Technical Manager

2012 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: .NET, C#

Software Developer

2011 - 2012
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.
Technologies: jQuery, JavaScript, .NET, C#

Systems Manager

2006 - 2011
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.
Technologies: UML, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, CSS, HTML, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript, VB.NET, C#

Business Analyst,

2005 - 2006
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.
Technologies: UML, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, VB.NET

Business Analyst, Developer

2003 - 2005
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.
Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

TIGRE

Proprietary Due Diligence and Compliance System used for the analysis and reporting of the suitability of purchasing residential mortgage loan in the secondary mortgage market. It also serves as the first line of quality control with built in data validation logic designed to improve the accuracy of results and warn of potential input data discrepancies.
Flexible and dynamic, TIGRE remains current with the ever changing credit and compliance environment.

British Standards On-Line (BSOL)

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.
Also included a generic eCommerce solution for all BSI applications, creating a cart to manage the purchase of BSI products.

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, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Rhino Mocks, .NET, WWF, NHibernate, Json.NET

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

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, Payment Gateways, IIS, eCommerce, Data Warehouse Design, Data Warehousing, Ajax, Regular Expressions

Libraries/APIs

LINQ, Windows Forms (WinForms), jQuery UI, Win32 API, jQuery, Windows API

2013 - 2013

Certified Scrum Master Degree in Scrum - Agile methodologies

Scrum Alliance - Cordoba

2013 - 2013

Certified Project Management Professional Degree in Project Management

Project Management Institute - Buenos Aires

1998 - 2005

Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering

National Technological University - Cordoba, Argentina

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