Architect
2013 - PRESENTBizTastic- Architected and developed compelling and innovative services and software for the enterprise integration space with a strong Microsoft technology background.
- Served as the lead BizTalk architect.
- Developed an Azure-based SaaS product focusing on the integration space using the most up-to-date Azure technologies including Azure websites, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Application Insights, SQL Azure, and Key Vault.
- Built a CI and CD environment using VSTS and Azure ARM.
- Architected the UI and UX based on Angular 4 with full-stack responsibilities all the way from the concept and design to development, testing, and continuous integration.
Technologies: BizTalk, Angular, .NET, C#, Entity Framework, Web API, TypeScript, JavaScriptLead Software Architect | Head of Technical Presales
2013 - 2016Kovai (BizTalk360)- Helped the company grow from three employees to 35 in two locations (UK and India).
- Developed and delivered a world-class software product which is the most popular Microsoft BizTalk Server third-party product in the market.
- Fostered the internal efforts to grow the company portfolio from one product to four products.
- Worked directly with the CEO and played important roles in critical areas such as sales, marketing, product development, and support.
- Mentored the members of the BizTalk teams.
- Architected, designed, and developed an upcoming SaaS product hosted in Azure, based of a PaaS Azure functionality that includes Azure websites, web jobs, Azure storage, Service Bus, and SQL Azure including SQL elastic pools, Azure Event Hubs.
- Championed innovative features in the product that led to the BizTalk360 Rules Engine and Analytics.
- Hired, mentored, and developed the support team and its procedures to deliver a remarkable service with reported high level of satisfaction from customers.
- Delivered technical presentations of the products to potential customers and liaise with all levels of customer contacts from the technical teams up to the chief-experience officer level.
- Acted as a client account manager: managing and coordinating the top three largest customers to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and upsell.
- Hired, mentored, and supported the India team.
Technologies: BizTalk, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, WCF, Knockout.js, Web API, Azure, Service BusPremier Field Engineer – BizTalk/Integration
2007 - 2013Microsoft- Delivered proactive services to Microsoft Premier Customers; these services require internal certification to guarantee a high level of quality and consistency of the delivery across the regions.
- Drove BizTalk readiness across EMEA, improved collaboration, mentored new hires, and wrote engineer technical training plans.
- Evaluated and assessed the BizTalk Server infrastructure and operational processes.
- Gave a workshop overview of the Microsoft BizTalk Server along with presentations and labs on how to design, build, and operate a robust and scalable environment.
- Designed a workshop to address disaster recovery planning requirements that are a vital pillar of building a mature enterprise-class business system.
- Developed the BizTalk Performance Lab, a customized engagement focused on tuning your specific application to meet its performance requirements.
- Developed the BizTalk Architecture and Design Review, a customized engagement designed around the business and technical requirements of your specific application.
- Built-up the .NET Code Review which provides a detailed look at specific components of.NET application’s source code and makes appropriate recommendations of issues found that may cause support issues.
- Focused on analyzing an integration related to Microsoft Azure offerings that could be used to form the next generation PFE services for integration including BizTalk Services; running BizTalk Server on Azure Virtual Machines, Service Bus.
Technologies: BizTalk, .NET, C#, Dynamics CRM, AzureApplication Consultant
2004 - 2007myPartner- Acted as an application consultant working with Dynamics NAV and BizTalk with a strong focus on development.
- Collaborated with functional consultants to review the business requirements to design, implement, and test feature requests.
- Implemented and customized ERP deployment projects ranging from the application design and architecture specification down to the functional module configuration, code customization, and version upgrades.
- Managed and was responsible for the full application development lifecycle of the BizTalk integration projects including collecting the integration requirements, proposing functional and technical designs, developing, testing, and training the customers.
- Participated, in a large integration project, on the Dynamics CRM which was one of the most important integration targets; contributed to a large knowledge of the internal workings of the Dynamics CRM.
Technologies: BizTalk, .NET, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Dynamics CRM
Ricardo Torre
Software Developer in Porto, Portugal
Member since October 4, 2017
For the past 14 years, Ricardo's been working mainly with C#, ASP.NET, Angular 4, and the Microsoft Integration stack. Currently, he's working on a startup for a PaaS product based on the Azure and Microsoft Integration stack. Ricardo is passionate about designing and building software and teams for a high-performance delivery.
Ricardo is now available for hire
Portfolio
- BizTasticBizTalk, Angular, .NET, C#, Entity Framework, Web API, TypeScript, JavaScript
- Kovai (BizTalk360)BizTalk, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, WCF, Knockout.js, Web API, Azure...
- MicrosoftBizTalk, .NET, C#, Dynamics CRM, Azure
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
BizTalk, C#, Web API, Entity Framework, Angular
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve done was to develop solutions for BizTalk—taking them to production, supporting them, and operating them on a day-to-day basis.
Employment
Experience
- BizTalk360 (Development)https://www.biztalk360.com
Once your BizTalk solutions are developed and taken to production, you begin supporting them and operating them on a day-to-day basis. At this point, your support staff experiences various challenges on an ongoing basis.
The standard tools like BizTalk Administration Console are not designed or appropriate for support/operational activities. It lacks a lot of basic functionality like basic user access, keeping an audit trail of activities performed by support staff, and so on. In some cases, the standard BizTalk admin console is way too powerful to hand over to inexperienced or non-BizTalk people.
The other challenge was on the BizTalk Monitoring side; once your BizTalk solutions were deployed to a production environment, it's important to keep an eye on the health of them.
For example, you need to get notified if a receiving location is down, a host is down, and so on. Right now BizTalk customers need to rely on some external tools like a SCOM (system center operations manager), HPOM, etc. SCOM comes with very a good management pack for monitoring BizTalk server, but the challenging part is in the complexity of setting up SCOM and ongoing management of alerts when your BizTalk applications start growing.
Skills
Languages
TypeScript, C#, SQL, JavaScript, C#.NETFrameworks
Angular Material, Angular, Entity, .NET, Knockout.jsLibraries/APIs
Azure Blob Storage API, Web API, GoJS, Azure API ManagementTools
Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure DevOps Services, Azure Key Vault, Application Insights, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics NAVPlatforms
Azure IaaS, Azure, Visual Studio Code, Azure PaaS, Azure Event Hubs, Visual Studio 2016, MicrosoftStorage
Azure Websites, Azure SQL, SQL Server 2014, SQL Elastic PoolsOther
Integration, BizTalk, Azure Web Jobs, Azure Service Bus, Azure Resource Manager (ARM)Paradigms
Agile
Education
- Master's degree in Computer Science2001 - 2007ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto - Porto, Portugal
