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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.
