Victor Bueno, Developer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Victor Bueno

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Software Developer

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since
July 17, 2014

Victor is a seasoned developer with over 20 years of experience focusing on the Microsoft technology stack. He can work with a wide range of software domains, including web apps, back-end services, databases, mobile apps, and most recently, AI. Victor can provide extensive experience, both as team lead and architect. He's also happy to work on a business-facing role, where he can make good use of his soft skills.

Portfolio

Rain
Go, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, DBeaver, PostgreSQL 9
Pasbridge Ltd.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud API, Azure, Angular...
The Money Source
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, .NET

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure, SQL, APIs

The most amazing...

...thing I've created is a complex rules engine for sampling candidate exam applications for QA from a large list of candidates.

Work Experience

Senior Back-end Developer

2022 - 2022
Rain
  • Managed to shift from Windows and .NET to Linux and Go in a few weeks.
  • Worked on the data ingestion group implementing several custom integrations to ingest customers' data.
  • Provided new ideas and ways to manage ingested data to ensure better usage and availability of that data required to conduct the primary business use case.
Technologies: Go, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, DBeaver, PostgreSQL 9

Technical Lead

2018 - 2020
Pasbridge Ltd.
  • Worked on several projects with a team of developers for different international customers creating web apps, mobile apps, back-end architectures, microservices, and more.
  • Defined standards and tools to use in projects, led and mentored developers into using those tools, and monitor proper usage.
  • Focused on security and performance on the back end using OAuth and Identity Server in several of those projects.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud API, Azure, Angular, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Agile Software Development, SQL Server 2014, MongoDB, REST, Microservices, .NET

Software Architect

2016 - 2018
The Money Source
  • Designed and developed many apps for the company.
  • Interviewed and hired developers for the team.
  • Managed the team.
  • Interfaced with the business to gather requirements, and suggested implementations and kick-off projects.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, .NET

Lead Developer

2015 - 2016
Yeezers Interactive
  • Managed several projects in the loan and credit management industry for several clients of Yeezers in the US.
  • Led a small group of developers.
  • Created both back-end applications, doing ETL, reporting, and data movement to and from different third party systems as well as front-end apps.
Technologies: .NET

.NET Web Developer

2014 - 2015
EasyJet
  • Implemented page enhancements on the company's main website, regarded as one of busiest in Europe.
  • Worked on the redirection mechanism used internally to avoid certain issues when mixing HTTP and HTTPS.
  • Helped the porting of the site to be purely 64 bits to allow the platform to use more memory.
  • Worked on several enhancements to the payments module.
  • Supported the TeamCity build system to ensure proper deployment of NuGet packages to the correct location.
Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, Git, Knockout (Knockout.js), Razor, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET

Lead Developer

2013 - 2014
Mintec
  • Contributed to the development of the first version of a new costing tool. Handled everything from requirements gathering to final development and testing.
  • Implemented usage of a new set of methodologies and tools in the development department.
  • Developed a complex multitask calculations engine in charge of calculating the risks and opportunities for retailers based on the their procurement data and Mintec's commodity data.
  • Mentored team members in the new technologies and methodologies.
  • Helped conduct second round interviews for new senior developers.
Technologies: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, SQLite, VSS, Visual Studio

Senior .NET Developer, Team Lead

2013 - 2013
Sony
  • Helped finalize development of the Windows 8 version of Sony’s online music system.
  • Worked with a complex in-house JavaScript architecture requiring extensive JavaScript expertise.
  • Dealt with issues in the JavaScript unit testing step arising from Sony's use of Jenkins for continuous integration.
  • Learned advanced JavaScript techniques.
  • Established close relationships with my coworkers.
Technologies: Visual Studio, Jenkins, JavaScript, Windows

.NET Architect, Senior Developer, Team Leader

2011 - 2013
Wolters Kluwer
  • Supported 15+ applications over a wide range of technologies.
  • Introduced best practices to the development team.
  • Managed a team with both onsite and offshore (India) members.
  • Ensured SLAs regarding support tickets.
  • Automated the whole environment with continuous integration and deployment scripts.
Technologies: Lotus Notes, Oracle, SQL Server 2008, IIS 7, VB.NET WinForms, .NET, Web API, ASP.NET MVC 4, C#, Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer .NET 4.5 Web Applications Developer, Visual Basic 6 (VB6), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Microsoft SQL Server

.NET Architect, Senior Developer, Team Leader

2005 - 2013
Cambridge Assessment
  • Involved in the development of many key web and back-end systems for the company.
  • Mentored, interviewed, and coached other colleagues.
  • Took part in all phases of many projects including estimating, designing, developing, and testing as well as generating automated deployment scripts.
  • Introduced the Agile methodology.
  • Acquired extensive exposure to the business, developing strong relationships based on trust and confidence in my work.
Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, JavaScript, Web Servers, Ajax, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, Message Queues, Windows Workflow Foundation, Entity Framework, Visual Studio

Candidate Sampling Algorithm

Following a strict set of mathematical functions, we developed the system to "sample" certain candidates from a large list in order to perform QA on the marking exercise done by exam markers.

Languages

C#.NET, XML, C#, JavaScript, SQL, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Visual Basic 6 (VB6), C++, Python 3, Rust, Go

Frameworks

.NET Core, .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core 2, Knockout (Knockout.js), Bootstrap, ASP.NET MVC, Razor, ASP.NET MVC 4, VB.NET WinForms, Angular, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, Shopify API, Azure Blob Storage API, jQuery, Web API, Entity Framework, Google Cloud API, TensorFlow, Azure Cognitive Services, Jenkins Pipeline

Tools

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS SDK, NuGet, Jira, Bitbucket, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), TeamCity, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Postman, Git, Visual Studio, VSS, Jenkins, Lotus Notes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GitLab, Confluence

Paradigms

Model View Controller (MVC), Agile Software Development, Inversion of Control, Unit Testing, Clean Code, Concurrent Programming, DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Azure DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Extreme Programming, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Continuous Deployment, Microservices, REST

Platforms

Win32, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Shopify, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WinRT, Windows, Azure IaaS, Azure PaaS, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Xamarin, Android, Oracle, Docker, Blockchain

Storage

Azure Blobs, JSON, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, Redis, MongoDB, Azure Queue Storage, SQLite, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Azure SQL, Elasticsearch, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2014, Alibaba Cloud, DBeaver

Other

Ajax, SOLID Principles, Solution Architecture, APIs, Back-end, API Integration, CI/CD Pipelines, Architecture, SOAP, Code Contracts, Scrum Master, Serverless, Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer .NET 4.5 Web Applications Developer, IIS 7, Message Queues, Web Servers, Artificial Intelligence (AI), User Experience (UX), Machine Learning, PostgreSQL 9

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