Joel Garcia
1390 Market Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94102-https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelgarcia
https://github.com/joel-maws
OVERVIEW
Innovative, hands-on engineer with a proven record of designing, developing, and operating
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Big Data solutions written in Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java, or
Node.js, which run on AWS, Heroku, Azure, or Aptible.
CERTIFICATIONS
1. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2. AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3. AWS Certified Database - Specialty
4. AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5. DataStax Partner Solutions Architect
EXPERIENCE
9/2015 – 11/2018 ConsejoSano
San Francisco, CA
Lead Developer
https://www.consejosano.com
ConsejoSano sells a multi-lingual patient engagement cloud platform to produce better health
outcomes.
● Built the MVP in a HIPAA compliant manner on Aptible making use of Ruby on Rails
and Java. Ruby on Rails was used for the web portal and REST APIs, which needed to be
consumed by the mobile applications. Java Spring component was used to transform
healthcare data from EMRs into our cloud via ETL. Java Spring component integrated
with Twilio to provide SMS and programmable voice functionality.
● Assisted ConsejoSano in raising $9 mill in Seed and Series A funding.
11/2014 – Present AllCode
San Francisco, CA
Lead Developer
https://www.allcode.com
Wrote a number of Ruby on Rails, Java Spring, Node.js, and Scala solutions for various clients.
● Ruby on Rails apps persist to a MySQL or PostgreSQL, which runs on AWS or Heroku.
Invariably, there is a Redis for a RAM cache. Most of these solutions are fronted with
Nginx and leverage Passenger or Unicorn. If media is required, then S3/CloudFront.
● Java Spring solutions typically leverage Spring Boot. Make use of Hibernate to
communicate with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
● On Heroku, the Node.js solutions will communicate with a mlab MongoDB for storage,
leverage a Redis Cloud for a RAM cache, and Papertrail for logging.
● Certified DataStax Partner – Provide assistance to DataStax clients on DSE and Apache
Spark. For these solutions, I’ll typically architect, develop, operate, and troubleshoot
enterprise deployments of DataStax. These solutions are typically written in Java or Scala.
Source code for a Java and Scala Spark Cassandra Connector project is available here
https://github.com/joel-maws/SparkStarterScalaJava
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Source code Repositories: GitLab, Bitbucket, and GitHub
IDEs: JetBrains - RubyMine, IntelliJ, and WebStorm
Process: Jira, Slack, and Trello
1/2014 – 11/2014 LittleCast
San Francisco, CA
Vice President of Engineering
http://www.littlecast.com
LittleCast provides a SaaS video platform to enable the film and music industry to monetize.
● Recruited to ramp up Engineering, Product Management, QA, Support, and Operations
in San Francisco and Lahore, Pakistan. Managed 5 direct reports.
● Delivered two native mobile applications, LittleCast and LittleTV. LittleTV competes in
the asynchronous video chat space built on Ruby on Rails, Parse, Firebase, and
EngineYard.
● Delivered a Multi-Channel Network (MCN) on Facebook enabling the film and music
industry to monetize video via pre-roll built on Ruby on Rails and EngineYard.
4/2013 -1/2014 Self Health Network
San Francisco, CA
Chief Technology Officer
http://www.selfhealthnet.com
The Self Health Network provides a SaaS based private social network that facilitates the
reduction of hospital readmissions by leveraging medical devices.
● Recruited to build the hospital readmissions solution from scratch. Took the idea and
delivered the product written in PHP and Java leveraging MySQL running at Rackspace.
● Hired a team of Engineers, Product Managers, QA, and Operations personnel in San
Francisco, Medellin, New York City, and Lahore.
● Setup all of the product delivery and operational processes ranging from requiring
Product Managers to write accurate product requirement documents to branch
management of releases in GitHub.
6/2011 - 4/2013 TidalWave Interactive
San Francisco, CA
COO and Co-Founder
http://www.tidalwaveapp.com
TidalWave delivers a SaaS mobile and social media-marketing platform for businesses. TidalWave
was acquired by private equity in March of 2014.
● Founded TidalWave with the former President of Embarcadero Technologies, #1
performing IPO of 2000.
● Recruited and managed Engineering, Product Management, Operations, and Sales teams
in San Francisco, Miami Beach, and Medellin, Colombia.
● TidalWave runs on AWS making use of Linux, Apache, MySQL RDS, jQuery, Sencha
Touch and ExtJS, and Spring.
● Successfully raised angel funding and closed the private equity deal in- – 6/2011 LiveVox
Vice President of Engineering
http://www.livevox.com
San Francisco, CA
Recruited to bring order to a SaaS based predictive dialer solution for call centers that suffered
from daily business disruptions, lacked change management, and had poor implementation.
Golden Gate Capital acquired LiveVox in March of 2014.
● Implemented process and architectural changes to enable the solution to serve millions
of pages and place up to 13 million calls per day. Revenue quadrupled. Head count
tripled.
● Managed a team of 75 with 8 direct reports in Engineering, Product Management,
Quality Assurance, Client Setup, and Technical Support in North America, Asia, and
Latin America.
● Opened offices in Medellin, Colombia and Mexico City, Mexico.
Led the team in the following initiatives:
● Established an Oracle 10g data warehouse.
● Improvement of SIP and RTP architecture: OpenSips with LCR and RtpProxy.
● Addition of new carriers: Verizon, Transcom, Qwest, PacWest, and Zone.
● Implementation of outbound SMS making use of the MBlox API.
● External and Internal Audits: PCI DSS and SAS70 in- – 2008
Med-Vantage Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Vice President of Engineering &IT
http://www.medvantage.com
Recruited to build an enterprise solution for health insurance plans to make physician cost and
quality transparent to the consumer. Facilitated the growth of a tiny consulting firm into a
Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) backed software delivery venture. IMS Health acquired
Med-Vantage in May of 2011.
● Designed the UI and wrote the initial versions of the Med-Vantage platform in in a
HIPAA compliant manner in Java and C# to make physician cost and quality transparent
to the consumer.
● Hired and managed a team of 40 in San Francisco in Engineering, Quality Assurance, IT,
Technical Support, Product Management, and Operations
● Assisted in the closing of $15 million in Series A funding for Med-Vantage.
2003 – 2006
Symantec
Redwood City, CA
Senior Software Development Manager
http://www.symantec.com
Designed and directed all Engineering aspects of the Symantec Security Information Manager
(SSIM) DB Expansion Pack and Symantec’s Enterprise Security Architecture (SESA)
● Delivered the SSIM DB Expansion pack, a custom Oracle 10g RAC solution designed to
hold terabytes of security events for Dell.
● Responsible for all development aspects of Symantec’s Enterprise Security Architecture
(SESA) in Redwood City. Managed a team of 20 at two locations: Redwood City and
Santa Monica.
1998 – 2003
Embarcadero Technologies
Senior Software Development Manager
http://www.embarcadero.com
San Francisco, CA
Directed all development aspects of Embarcadero Performance Center, and the Embarcadero
Debugger in RapidSQL and DBArtisan.
● Designed and developed the UI, middleware, and backend for Performance Center and
the Embarcadero Debuggers for Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server.
● Hired, trained, and led a 15-person team.
1996 – 1998
Oacis Healthcare Systems
San Rafael, CA
Project Lead
http://www.oacis.com
Introduced formal analysis, design, GUI, and architecture phases into the software development
life cycle for a Clinical Pharmaceutical Order Entry solution.
● Trained and led a team of 20 developers and managers in a software development
process that is a merger of Rational’s Objectory process and the Fusion process.
● Implemented large portions of the UI for the Pharmaceutical Order Entry product. This
involved coming up with a custom MFC tree control with search features-
EQE International
San Francisco, CA
Senior Software Engineer
http://www.eqecat.com/
● Design the UI and implemented the code for a Win32 MFC single site risk assessment
application for earthquakes that geo-codes latitude and longitude to street addresses
making use of the Census Bureau’s Tiger files. This involved converting the raw Tiger file
data into an organized data model. The GUI displayed the contents of the Tiger files in a
custom-drawn map.
EDUCATION-
Carleton College
Northfield, MN
B.A. in Mathematics
● Awarded Cowling Scholarship for Minority Students.
● 3 time All-MIAC and Captain of the Men’s Soccer Team.
PATENTS
Rules-Based
Software
and
Methods
for
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/-
Post Procedure Care and Wellness Management
https://patents.google.com/patent/US-A1/en
Health
Care
Measurement.
