Luis Luna Aguilar
Software engineer, entrepreneur and simplicity lover-
Summary
Hi! I'm software engineer and entrepreneur who believes in simple solutions. They work better, feel better, and
are far more elegant.
The web amazes me everyday; it makes us better, it makes us aware, and it makes life easier. It creates
opportunities for all it's visitors by sharing it's knowledge to improve and enhance itself and those who pay
attention to it. I'm committed to helping it do that.
I've been working in Ruby on Rails web stack for the past years (more details below), and also I work everyday
with front-end technologies (HTML, JS, CSS, HAML, SLIM, SASS, Coffeescript, among others).
If you think I can help you achieve your goals, or if you can help me achieve mine, get in touch at-
Experience
Cofounder and CTO at Carey Medical
March 2015 - Present (1 year 11 months)
Carey Medical started in 2013 as a GLS Labs project for Clínica Integral Cordero, where we designed and
developed a web platform to provide scheduling and electronic health records to their clinic. Over the years
we added inventory, invoicing and reporting tools to help them with their day to day, and at the same time
we solidified our platform.
In late 2014, given the quality and solid foundation of our product, tested more than 2 years in real scenario
usage, we decided to launch Carey Medical as our first SaaS product for the health centers and clinics of
Costa Rica.
As the CTO of Carey, which I've been very emotionally close because I've used the project across the
years to implement everything I've learned, to make it better and to test those technologies on production
scenarios, I'm in charge of the development of the product, the infrastructure and services needed to run a
SaaS platform, and of making sure it keeps the quality we have managed to obtain as it grows.
Co-founder and Consultant at GLS Labs
September 2012 - Present (4 years 5 months)
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GLS is the entrepreneurship adventure my partner and me always wanted. We believe that we need to create
jobs to give back to society and impulse others, we want to share with them our developing philosophies and
make them feel as excited as we are building things.
We want to help our clients improve their business creating new products for them, or improving existent
ones. This let me work with different technologies and learn about the field in which the products will be
used.
Also, a company of your own makes you learn to be an administrator, an accountant, a client manager. It
teaches you to take decisions about what technology to use for a project, about how to gather technical
requirements looking to minimize misunderstandings, and makes you lead developers & designers teams. It
drives you to learn more, so you can share more and give back to the persons working with you.
GLS is a learning experience that teaches you new things with every project.
Ruby on Rails Developer at New Futuro
March 2012 - July 2013 (1 year 5 months)
I started working for New Futuro as contractor via Pernix Solutions, and officially joined the team in March
2012. I worked in the newfuturo.com website as a Ruby on Rails developer, developing new features and
improvements to existent ones, providing solutions to the problems we faced at the same time.
I also had the role of Data Engineer, providing reports and elaborating researches to guide business and
development decisions. I got experience in Google Analytics, Segment.io, Mixpanel, Session Cam,
ClickTale and other data tools for researching users behavior and site statistics.
The New Futuro adventure took me to a lot of live events, with thousands of attendants and held in different
locations of the US (LA, HOU, MIA, CHI), where I was able to interact with our users and research how
they used our site, and how we could improve for them. This interaction drastically improved my people and
communication skills, after the hundreds of talks with our users and their families.
Ruby on Rails Developer at Pernix-Solutions
July 2011 - March 2012 (9 months)
When I arrived worked for 2 months in a Drupal project, where I learned some PHP and had my first
experiences with CMS applications.
After that, in September 2011, I started working in the New Futuro project as a Ruby on Rails developer,
which introduced me to technologies like HTML-CSS-Javascript preprocessors, Git as a source control
system, and applications deployed on unix based systems. Also I was new to Ruby on Rails, and I gained
solid expertise in all of these technologies.
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I worked under agile teams and I started using tools for managing the process, like Pivotal Tracker, Camp
Fire or Base Camp.
This job took me to my first international working experiences, first I spent two weeks in Chicago working
with Obtiva (acquired by Groupon), to learn from their developers in a knowledge exchange program. After
that I went to the US to do consultancies for our clients at New Futuro, which introduced me to the american
working culture, which I got in love with, admiring their passion and focus on career development. This was
a life change experience that has guide my professional values since then.
Certifications
edX Honor Code Certificate for eHealth – Opportunities and Challenges
edX
Machine Learning
Coursera
December 2014
Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach
Coursera Verified Certificates License C9SDX2E468NT October 2015
Machine Learning: Regression
Coursera Course Certificates License WS63VRYMX7C7 January 2016
Machine Learning: Classification
Coursera Course Certificates License QRQ38C3DY9SU April 2016
edX Honor Code Certificate for Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science
edX
The Music of the Beatles
Coursera Course Certificates License W457HBKRDRQK June 2016
Projects
newfuturo.com
September 2011 to July 2013
Members:Luis Luna Aguilar, Franz Pereira, Christian Deliens, Jose Boza, Beatriz González, , Gilbert Corrales,
Gabriela Castro
The New Futuro site provides helpful information and tools for students, looking forward to help them
achieve their dreams and be successful in a college career.
glslabs.com
June 2013 to Present
Members:Luis Luna Aguilar,
The GLS Labs website shows in a simple and elegant way what GLS Labs does, and the benefits of working
with us.
yolavendi.com
July 2013 to Present
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Members:Luis Luna Aguilar, Jimmy Garita
We developed this project for our client TEAH Digital, who provided the design of the product. At GLS we
built a Ruby on Rails application and a backend written in PHP for administration of the application content,
sharing a database between the two of them.
pymerang.com
August 2013 to Present
Members:Luis Luna Aguilar, Andres Lara Cordero
We help our clients at Pymerang to do maintenance work for their website, as we are planning to revamp the
user experience. This is a projects in it's first steps.
Languages
Spanish
English
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Skills & Expertise
Software Engineering
Software Development
Web Development
Ruby on Rails
JavaScript
jQuery
HAML
CSS
SASS
Git
MySQL
HTML
PostgreSQL
JSON
Spanish
MVC
HTML5
Agile
Project Management
Start-ups
PHP
ASP.NET
SQL Server
SQL
XML
AJAX
Web Services
UML
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Unix
Programming
Web Applications
English
Google Analytics
Segment.io
Mixpanel Analytics
SessionCam Analytics
Clicktale
Microsoft SQL Server
Agile Methodologies
HTML 5
Education
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Bachelor, Computing Engineering, 2008 - 2012
Universidad de Costa Rica
Economics, 2009
Interests
user experience, interaction design, design, front end development, reading, soccer, photography, indie rock,
guitars, traveling, hiking
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Luis Luna Aguilar
Software engineer, entrepreneur and simplicity lover-
3 people have recommended Luis
"I have known Luis professionally for the past 4 years. Luis is a very dynamic, organized and results oriented
tech entrepreneur. His ability to focus on user needs and his continuous drive to solve target market pains
makes him a valuable partner for every project. I like his structured and factual approach to data analysis as a
way to develop a product road map."
— Gerardo Canales, Management Consultant, Aventine Hill Partners, was Luis's client
"Luis is a great software engineer. Not only he has an excellent disposition to walk that extra mile to solve
a problem, but also he understands that creating a digital product entails many different disciplines. He had
the initiative, discipline and drive to become key in our data analytics efforts (key to any startup, and made
us take better decisions based on that data). I definitely recommend Luis as a great addition to a development
team."
— Franz Pereira, managed Luis at New Futuro
"I had Luis joined my team early on our endeavor with New Futuro as an intern and soon after he showed
he had the skills to be promoted to employee and join the team full time. Luis' proactive and no-fear-tochallenges attitude has been key to making up to the never ending challenges of a startup life and thru his
drive for innovation and continuos improvement he went to become a cornerstone piece for our data analytics
efforts. I'd recommend Luis to any technical endeavor and would love to have him in my team anytime."
— Gilbert Corrales, managed Luis at New Futuro
Contact Luis on LinkedIn
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