
Ricardo Quinones
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Ricardo started his career as a boot camp grad from App Academy. Over the past nine years, he benefited from being surrounded by many talented engineers who helped him hone his craft, from Handy to WeWork. He's currently working at an early-stage startup and is also interested in freelancing opportunities and their flexibility.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Docker, Bash, Shell, Node.js, Ruby, Go
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is my first full end-to-end feature as a fully-employed software engineer. I still apply the lessons I learned then.
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Carrot
- Built the communication infrastructure for emails and push notifications.
- Integrated our platform with seven affiliate networks to bring in revenue.
- Built the CI/CD workflows and pipelines for every one of our apps using GitHub Actions.
- Integrated all of our applications with an ELK stack provider and conformed all of our applications to emit JSON logs in Elastic Common Schema (ECS) to help standardize log querying across all of our apps and services.
Staff Software Engineer
WeWork
- Managed a team of seven engineers building out the marketing website for WeWork.
- Led the engineering effort in launching WeWork's On Demand application and coordinated engineering and architectural decisions within the team.
- Spearheaded the architecture for a new business vertical.
Full-stack Developer
Handy
- Built out the revamped booking system that powered Handy's online checkout.
- Created the admin tooling and business logic for Handy's custom coupon and discounting system.
- Built the admin tooling for marketers to be able to quickly spin up custom landing pages to help drive targeted traffic to Handy.com.
Experience
On-demand Application
I acted as the engineering lead on the project and spearheaded the architecture for this new business vertical. I coordinated engineering and architectural decisions within the engineering team as well as with other teams in the organization.
The project required a new payment integration with Stripe to enable on-demand payments and a new infrastructure for communicating with users. The payment integration with Stripe enabled the company to quickly expand the offering to 60+ major cities worldwide by the time I left.
Skills
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, Go, SQL, Bash
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, Backbone.js, Apache Lucene, Stripe
Platforms
Heroku, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic, MacOS, Apache Kafka
Storage
PostgreSQL, PSQL, MySQL
Other
APIs, Prometheus
Tools
Jira, rbenv, RVM, Sublime Text 3, Kibana, Grafana, Postman, Shell, SendGrid
Frameworks
CODE, Ruby on Rails 4, Angular, Sinatra, Swagger, MJML, React Native
Paradigms
Management, REST
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
University of Florida - Gainesville, FL, USA
Certifications
Software Engineering Certification
App Academy