‍Daniel

Latin Americas
Mexico

$70/hour

English
About me

Tech Lead with over 10 years of experience in software development, specializing in Ruby on Rails, Go, and TypeScript. Currently leading the Sammy Cash platform, growing it to 15,000+ users. Formerly at Spin and TaskRabbit, driving product launches and innovative solutions. Strong background in IoT, microservices, and accessibility compliance.

Skills
Skill Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails
100.0%
(10yrs)
Skill Golang Golang
95.0%
(6yrs)
Skill React.JS React.JS
90.0%
(8yrs)
Skill PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
90.0%
(15yrs)
Skill AWS AWS
80.0%
(6yrs)
Skill Java Java
70.0%
(10yrs)
Experience
Technical Lead | Sammy Cash
Aug 2022 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Sammy Cash is a startup banking platform for global digital professionals. Allows users outside the U.S. to open and keep their money in US dollars in a US bank account.

Project- Sammy platform

Led a remote async team of eight engineers and successfully launched the Sammy Cash platform from its inception and grew it to more than 15,000 active users. We have developed and launched features like KYC validation, International transfers, Referrals, Peer to Peer, transfers and several third-party integrations.

We use Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Hotwire, Tailwind , React Native, Styled Components, PostgreSQL, Stripe, GitHub, Heroku, DigitalOcean, AWS S3, Shapeup.

Technical Lead | Spin
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022

Spin is one of the leading micro-mobility companies and a unit of Ford Mobility. We operate dockless electric scooters on campuses and in cities across North America and Europe.

Project- Spin Pass

Successfully launched SpinPass products in North America, the UK, Germany, and Spain, growing it to represent 20% of our sales worldwide. Built using ReactNative, Jest, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, PostgreSQL, Datadog, Docker, CircleCI, Stripe & Paypal.

 

Project- IoT Datadog integration

Knowing the status of our vehicles (scooters, e-bikes) is key for the company. We wanted to know in real time if a vehicle was out of an area, and its battery was below 20%, among other metrics. So we successfully implemented and launched our metrics service using Go, gRPC, Datadog, and CircleCI.

Professor | Tec de Monterrey
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

Taught 47 students about web application development professionals using ReactJS and Svelte

Senior Software Engineer | TaskRabbit
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020

TaskRabbit is a platform for freelance labor with local demand, allowing consumers to find immediate help with everyday tasks, including cleaning, moving, delivery, and handyman.


Project- I18n

Achieved launch of our web and mobile service in Spain and Canada for Spanish, Catalan, and French languages. I Implemented a process to automate translations using rake jobs and Smartling We developed new features and APIs to support multi-language for all platforms (web & mobile) using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Rspec, Redis, Docker, Rake, and Datadog.


Project- Accessibility

Completed accessibility compliance (ADA) for our web and mobile applications. Develop several APIs using React, Cypress,, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Docker, CircleCI.

Software Engineer | FigureEight
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

FigureEight is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company, their platform transforms text, image, audio, and video data into customized high-quality training data for a wide range of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, consumer products, and identification.


Project- Single Sign On

Achieved Single-Sign-On service for our on-prem platform for the US Government.

Built a microservice to allow on-prem users to sign in using Okta and SAML protocol assertions.

Developed Ruby on Rails services using Postgres, Docker, SemaphoreCI, PaperTrail, and Google Cloud service.


Project- Monoliths to Microservices

Worked on splitting two big monolithic applications into several microservices, we achieved reduced response time for high-demanded services from ~1s to ~4ms.

Developed services in Ruby on Rails, using Postgres, Docker, Redis, Papertrail, and AWS S3

Software Engineer | Switchfly Inc.
May 2012 - Oct 2016

 Travel SaaS technology platform that provides e-commerce solutions for airlines and travel loyalty programs.


Project- Encore

 A project dedicated to customer service for American Express travel loyalty programs. Built several features for Hotel (rooms) bookings using Java, Googl Guice, EmberJS, Hibernate, Selenium, Postgres, EasyMock, and Maven.


Project- Loyalty Programs

Built and supported social loyalty applications using Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Sidekiq, and Capistrano.

Software Engineer | GCC Chihuahua
Jun 2008 - May 2012

Worked on SAP implementation, Point of Sales system development for USA division, and Continuous

Improvement application; using Java, Spring MySQL, Oracle, and Hibernate

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science | Tecnológico de Monterrey
2003 - 2008