Ramiro Castro, Developer in Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina
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Ramiro Castro

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Front-end Developer

Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina

Toptal member since April 2, 2014

Expertise
Front-endFull-stackLinuxPHPCSSLAMPUbuntuJavaScriptWeb DevelopmentBack-end DevelopersSystem AdministrationAjax
Bio

Ramiro is a software developer with wide experience in system administration, dev-ops, back-end and front-end development of distributed applications.

Portfolio

Santex America S.A.
MySQL, Linux, NGINX, Apache, jQuery, Node.js, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services
F5 Networks, Linux
Freelance
Apache, Linux, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP

Experience

  • Front-end - 10 years
  • LAMP - 10 years
  • Node.js - 6 years
  • JavaScript - 6 years
  • DevOps - 2 years
  • Docker - 1 year
  • NoSQL - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Terminal, Sublime Text, Chrome, Ubuntu

The most amazing...

...software I've developed is a middle-ware application that communicates in real-time with the browser, and a crawling back-end service.

Work Experience

Software Developer

2009 - PRESENT
Santex America S.A.
  • Developed data-oriented User Interfaces using HTML5, CSS 3, jQuery / jQuery UI / jqGrid, Backbone.js, AngularJS.
  • Developed Middleware applications using node.js, Socket.IO, Express, Jade.
  • Programmed RESTful Web Services using JSON.
  • Developed applications using Linux, PHP5, Apache/nginx and MySQL.
  • Designed and implemented testing and production web applications environments.
  • Drove web applications performance and reliability: tuning Apache and MySQL, Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks.
  • Involved with the entire cycle of web applications development: planning functionalities and features, designing and implementing solutions, maintaining web sites.
  • Wrote technical specifications and thorough documentation.
  • Wrote change scripts and implementation procedures.
  • Trained and mentored semi-­senior team members.
Technologies: MySQL, Linux, NGINX, Apache, jQuery, Node.js, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP

System Administrator

2009 - 2011
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services
  • Worked as System Administration for Unix and Wintel platforms in a high availability, 24x7 environment.
  • Provided technical support and guidance for large-scale critical production systems.
  • Was responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, incident resolution, problem escalation, outage notifications, implementing changes, backup and maintenance, team coordination and customer interaction.
  • Communicated and coordinated with a broad range of users: developers, engineers, technical leaders, operations and management among others.
  • Required strong analytical and problem solving skills, and ability to work well under tight time constraints to resolve software and system issues in highly trafficked web applications.
Technologies: F5 Networks, Linux

Developer

2003 - 2011
Freelance
  • Designed, coded, implemented, tested and deployed web applications.
  • Improved user experience creating interactive web interfaces using Javascript, Ajax, HTML and CSS.
  • Developed over 100 web projects using different MVS CMS platforms, open source libraries, using PHP5, Linux, Apache & MySQL.
  • Projects included HR applications, Marketing tools, Corporate Intranets, e-Learning & eCommerce portals, Web Sites.
Technologies: Apache, Linux, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP

Experience

Santex Group Web Site

http://santexgroup.com/
Developed responsive web site and blog using Wordpress CMS to implement the provided graphic design.

Marketing Action Platform

I have developed the UI for a Search Engine Marketing application platform used by companies such as IBM, Intel and others. I wrote the UI as a single page MVC application. It communicates with a Java back-end using JSON web services. This is a multi-user / multi-tenant application.
I have also developed a middle-ware to communicate the UI to the back-end in real-time using Node.js and Socket.IO, and a PDF generator using PhantomJS.

TimeApp

This is a DEMO application which lets users manage time-zones, helping you track the time of different cities.
I wrote it from scratch, as a part-time project, in 2 weeks time, using AngularJS, Bootstrap (as CSS framework) and a RESTful PHP back-end, based on Slim micro-framework.

Education

1998 - 2006

Partially-completed Degree in Systems Engineering

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional  - Córdoba

1996 - 1997

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Córdoba, Argentina

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, jQuery, Socket.IO, Highcharts, jQuery UI, Polymer, PhantomJS, Restify, Flot, RxJS, Mustache, Moment.js, LocalStorage, Underscore.js, D3.js, Lodash, React, Modernizr, RequireJS, Backbone.js

Tools

Bower, Docker Compose, Bower Front-end Dependency Manager, GitHub, Bitbucket, Docker Hub, Composer, Git, Shell, Subversion (SVN), Sublime Text 2, NGINX, Apache, Terminal, jqGrid, Jenkins, Confluence, Jira, Sublime Text, Apache Solr, NPM, Yeoman, Gulp, Webpack, Grunt, Mongoose, Apache JMeter, Varnish, SQLyog, MySQL Workbench, PhpStorm

Languages

PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Bash Script, TypeScript 2, TypeScript, ECMAScript (ES6), Sass

Platforms

Linux, Ubuntu, LAMP, Debian Linux, Docker, Drupal 8, Drupal, Acquia, Meteor, Red Hat Linux, Unix, Windows

Frameworks

Bootstrap 3, AngularJS, Express.js, Twig, Angular, Bootstrap, Chrome, Laravel, ZURB Foundation, Ionic 2, CodeIgniter, Slim

Paradigms

Object-oriented Design (OOD), DevOps, Agile Software Development, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), REST, Model View Controller (MVC), Scrum, MapReduce, Continuous Integration (CI), Responsive Web Design (RWD), Design Patterns

Storage

Oracle PL/SQL, JSON, MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, NoSQL, Firebird, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Redis

Other

Front-end, Full-stack, User Experience (UX), Web Development, Back-end Development, GitFlow, Ajax, System Administration, F5 Networks, ESLint, Chrome Extensions

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