Alvaro Escobar

Alvaro Escobar

$90/hr
Sr. Systems Engineer
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
Location:
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Experience:
18 years
-http://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaroescobar (954) 600 – 6299 Mobile 33325 Zipcode Alvaro E. Escobar Professional Experience February, 2021 - Present PayPal Remote Senior Systems Engineer (RoR / Kotlin) Senior Engineer developing features and data streams for the Treasury Pricing Team at BrainTree subsidiary. Used a combination of Ruby and Kotlin languages, pairing with other developers over shared VMs. Other technologies used are Kafka, Protobuf, Data Lake. September, 2017–January, 2021 KIPU Systems Remote Senior Systems Engineer (RoR ) Part of the team that develops new features and maintains old ones for the #1 Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software for addiction treatment centers. Built systems using Ruby 2.3.0 and Rails 4.x. Initially used Sublime Text 3 and Terminal on iOS X, later on used Rubymine. Worked with many different gems. As version control systems used Git and GitHub. For bug tracking used Jira. Used Postgres database on the back-end. Initially used Heroku for deployment and continuous integration, later on used AWS. Initially used Slack for communication, later on Teams.. Personal accomplishments are:  Login Page redesign  Gender restricted rooms  Templates edition rights  API integration with CRM  API Development, Documentation and Testing with Swagger integration  Maintained supportive Distributed Systems (Authorizer,PDF & Lab Servers) May, 2016–June,2017 MDLive.com Remote Senior Systems Engineer (RoR & Java) Lead team developer at MDLive, innovating and enhancing leading edge systems to create an awesome experience for patients and medical providers in the Telehealth industry. Built systems using Ruby 2.3.0 and Rails 4.x. Maintained existing legacy systems using Ruby 1.9.4 and Rails 3.x. and also Java 7 for the Single Sign On. Used Sublime Text 3 and Terminal on iOS X. Worked with many different gems. As version control systems used Git and GitHub. For bug tracking used Jira. Used MySQL database on the back-end. For deployment and continuous integration we used Travis and for communication we use Slack. Personal accomplishments are:  Incorporated the NDC (National Drug Code) codes to all medications prescribed by providers in the system.  Developed, tested & documented most Restful API endpoints in the backend for mobile and web systems in the frontend.  Lead the API group into using Swagger for documentation of Restful endpoints. Also worked on Single Sign On written in Java 7 and exposing RESTful services for all MDLive systems. January, 2015–Dec,2015 Erdos Miller Systems Engineer (RoR & AngularJS) Remote Team lead developer for Erdos Miller which specializes in Monitoring Systems for Oil Drilling companies. Created, tested and maintained a dashboard website (LEAM Drilling Systems - http://www.leamfleettracker.com/) that monitors and captures real-time data from Oil-Drilling Wells. Built system using Ruby 2.2.2 and Rails 4.1. Used Sublime Text 2 on linux (Ubuntu) development environments. Worked with following gems; pusher, authority, angular-rails-templates, cofee-rails, rspec-rails and many others. As version control systems used Git and BitBucket. For bug tracking used Jira. Used Postgres database on the back-end and AngularJS 1.2, coffeescript style as a clientside framework. For deployment used Heroku and for communication we use HipChat. July, 2014–Dec, 2014 Sport Systems Online Inc. Ruby On Rails Architect (Ruby on Rails) Davie, FL Re-architected website for Sport Systems Online Inc. using SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture solution assisting sport organizations to better manage and organize their sporting events and pay for the services as they use them. Rebuilt system using Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.1.12, using SublimeText2. Worked with following gems; RSpec, simplecov, rails_best_practices and devise. For production used Apache & clustered Mongrels web servers. For version control systems switched to Git & Github. For bug tracking switched to Redmine. Used Heroku for deployment. Finally used XHTML, XML, Web 2.0 with AJAX, and MySql database on the backend. Worked on upgrading to Rails 4.x. June, 2012–June, 2014 MacNeill Group/Focus Tech Senior Web Architect (Java & NodeJS) Remote Team lead that designed, developed and tested MacNeill Group Insurance websites (PolicyPort, Tiva, ClaimsManagement, PolicyManagement, Insured Web, Agent Workbench). Used JAVA, J2EE Technologies with WebSphere 8.5, Eclipse, Spring 3.5, Jersey for restful services, JPA as the ORM, Subversion for java version control system, Maven for packaging and deployment and Jira for bug tracking. Later on developed website using nodeJS consuming those Java Restful services. Used Git for version control system and DB2 Database Server on the back-end. Customized all these products for many different customers like Southern Oak Insurance, Security First Insurance and others major insurance companies. Mar, 2012–May, 2012 Sport Systems Online Inc. Ruby On Rails Architect (Ruby on Rails) Davie, FL Senior Developer for Sport Systems Online Inc. which provides an online user-friendly solution that assists sport organizations to better manage and organize all sporting events online. Built system using Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.3.4, rake 0.8.7, on NetBeans and later on Aptana, using Webrick as the web server. Worked with following gems; Cucumber, Rcov, Watir and Selenium, and ImageScience. As version control systems used Subversion. Used Trac and Lighthouse for bug tracking and wiki. Customized Insoshi for social networking. Prototyped Amazon EC2 & Amazon RDS for server deployment flexibility. Finally used XHTML, XML, Web 2.0 with AJAX, and MySql database on the back-end. Worked on Rails 3.x upgrade. Jan, 2011–Feb, 2012 Cross Country Home Services Sunrise, FL Senior Web Architect (Java & PHP) Team Lead that designed, developed and tested CCHS websites (HomeProtectWarranty.com & Express Service Portal “esp.cchs.com” ) using JAVA, J2EE Technologies with Springsource Tool Suite (STS), Spring 3.0, RESTEasy for restful services, myBatis as the ORM, Subversion for version control system, Maven for packaging and deployment, Jira for bug tracking and project management and Hudson (Jenkins) for continuous integration. Built website in PHP, XHTML, XML consuming those Java Restful services. Used ORACLE 11 Server databases on the back-end. Working towards a SOA using JBoss AS. July, 2008–Dec,2010 Royal Caribbean International Senior Software Engineer (Java Developer) Miramar, FL Designed, Developed and Tested the B-2-B “booking engine” using JAVA, J2EE, JDBC Technologies with WebSphere (WAS6), Eclipse, RAD7, STRUTS, Hibernate as the ORM, CVS for version control system, Maven for packaging and deployment, Quality Center for bug tracking and Interwoven Worksite for collaboration. Used XHTML, XML, Web 2.0 with JSP, Javascript and AJAX on the front-end and T-SQL, MS-SQL Server databases and AS/400 on the back-end. July, 2006–June, 2008 ADP Inc. Remote Java Developer Designed, Developed and Tested the Digital Asset Management System (DAM) with user generated tagging system (Folksonomies) for the ADP Advertisement System. Worked in an Agile Development environment. Developed software programs, unit, functional and integration test procedures, and technical documentation. Used all latest open source technology with Java J2EE, MyECLIPSE 6.0, TOMCAT 5.5 and Resin 3.0, SPRING Framework Core and Webflow, Hibernate Framework and DAO, MAVEN, JIRA, Subversion, JSP and JSF, JUnit tests and Canoo webtests, XHTML, XML, UML 2.0, Web 2.0 with AJAX, and MySQL 5.0 on both Windows and Linux O/S. March,2004–June,2006 Java Developer Education ABC Distributing LLC Florida Atlantic University   Technical Skills     Kutztown, PA Master of Science in Computer Science. Graduated Magna Cum Laude. Universidad de los Andes  Boca Raton, FL PhD. abd in Computer Science and Engineering Member of the Secure Systems Research Group. Kutztown University   North Miami, FL Bogota, Colombia Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Operating Systems: Windows, Linux Ubuntu, Solaris, Mac OS/X, DOS. Databases: mySQL, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Postgres,MS SQL Server. Programming Languages: Java/Kotlin, Javascript, Ruby, PHP, HTML, XML, CSS. Frameworks: Spring, Rails, Kafka, RabbitMQ. Associations Member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) since 2001. Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) since 2007. References Available upon request. US Citizen.
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