Ricardo Quinones, Full-stack Developer in New York, NY, United States
Ricardo Quinones

Full-stack Developer in New York, NY, United States

Member since December 13, 2022
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.
Ricardo is now available for hire

Portfolio

  • Carrot
    Node.js, GraphQL, React, React Native, PostgreSQL
  • WeWork
    Management, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Apache Lucene, Kibana, New Relic...
  • Handy
    JavaScript, React, Angular, Ruby, Ruby on Rails 4, MySQL, Sinatra, Jira

Experience

Location

New York, NY, United States

Availability

Part-time

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.

Employment

  • Principal Software Engineer

    2021 - PRESENT
    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.
    Technologies: Node.js, GraphQL, React, React Native, PostgreSQL
  • Staff Software Engineer

    2016 - 2021
    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.
    Technologies: Management, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Apache Lucene, Kibana, New Relic, Grafana, Heroku, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Go, Postman, Swagger
  • Full-stack Developer

    2013 - 2016
    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.
    Technologies: JavaScript, React, Angular, Ruby, Ruby on Rails 4, MySQL, Sinatra, Jira

Experience

  • On-demand Application

    Worked on a project that involved integrating the company's existing workspace and conference room booking infrastructure into a wholly new one-time, on-demand payment system and a new mobile application for iOS and Android. The project was intended to maximize empty office space by offering it on demand to users who could book the space via the app.

    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, Go, SQL, GraphQL, Bash
  • Libraries/APIs

    Node.js, React, Backbone.js, Apache Lucene, Stripe
  • Platforms

    Heroku, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic, MacOS, Apache Kafka
  • Storage

    PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • 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
  • Other

    Prometheus

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
    2001 - 2005
    University of Florida - Gainesville, FL, USA

Certifications

  • Software Engineering Certification
    NOVEMBER 2013 - PRESENT
    App Academy

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