Going

Staff Rails Developer

Going, formerly Scott's Cheap Flights, is a subscription service that sends out only the best international flight deals to more than 1.5 million subscribers every day.

I've joined the company to work on the new web platform that's been built with Ruby on Rails.

CareerFoundry GmbH

Advisor in the Mentor Advisory Board

Every year CareerFoundry selects six among the best mentors of their courses who have exceeded expectations in the categories of "helpful", "encouraging" and "timely" but who also have a wealth of wonderful written feedback sent to the student and mentor teams.

I was chosen to fulfill this role in order to give them thoughtful feedback to improve the platform and the courses.

NoviCap

Senior Rails Developer

NoviCap (TechStars Barclays 2014) is an online platform which allows Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to access the capital locked in their long-dated invoices. NoviCap provides invoice finance in a fast, flexible, and transparent way while offering professional investors the opportunity to invest in a short-term asset yielding above-average returns.

On a daily basis I take care of improving the platform on both the backend (Ruby on Rails) and frontend (React).

Key projects I worked on:

• Improved the analysis testing suite lowering their time from 25 minutes to 3 minutes and made them simpler to test
• Added a way to recourse payments in order to retrieve the invested money from other financed invoices
• Automated the checking of the validity of submitted documents and their recurring notification
• Drastically lowered the amount of time spent every day by operations to submit payments by automatically export a payment file to upload on the bank website
• Added some API endpoints and helped partners on their integration
• Worked and improved the double entry accounting system that was based on an event driven architecture

CareerFoundry GmbH

Web Development Mentor

CareerFoundry is the number one community for career development in tech. Since 2014, it has helped educate more than 27'000 people from 80 countries, improve their careers and change their lives.

As a mentor I helped more than 100 students during their journey to become Junior Web Developers through regularly reviewing exercises, code reviews and checking for fundamental understanding of concepts, occasional video calls to discuss the projects in depth and finally suggesting supplemental learning materials and personal insights in areas where students are struggling.

Musikee

Co-Founder / CTO

Musikee is a platform to allow musicians and labels to involve their fans in promotional activities in exchange for rewards.

I mainly took care of the whole backend and API (following the JSON API spec) that integrated with an Angular SPA.

DataNovo Inc

Rails Developer

DataNovo is a big data, analytics startup that provides predictions of future outcomes and actionable recommendations to help companies, legal practitioners, and stakeholders assess the strength of a patent.

It started as a pivot of TradeGig and I built 2 different applications to fetch and parse all 5 million US patents and trial documents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), providing an internal API to connect them to the main application.

TradeGig LLC

Co-Founder / CTO

TradeGig was a service marketplace where people could put their skills for sale initially in exchange for an internal credit to barter for other services, and later for money.

It was accepted to participate at Start-Up Chile in the 7th batch.

I mainly worked on both the backend and frontend, using different technologies (Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, Braintree, Balanced Payments, and others)

Neonisi Srl

Co-Founder / CEO

Neonisi was an Italian auction/e-commerce platform achieving almost 2 millions of unique items available to purchase (at that time eBay Italy had 13 millions).

It also integrated directly with 3rd party Dropshipping providers, eBay (through their API) and with any external e-commerce (through CSV files) in order to keep the catalog in sync without much effort.

I Co-Founded the company wearing so many hats, and working mostly on the Customer Development, Product Strategy, Customer Support, Team Management, Hiring, System Administration and developing the whole platform using Ruby on Rails and other technologies (Sinatra, Sphinx, Neo4j, Redis, MySQL, Beanstalkd and others). Plus mopping the floor and taking out the trash when leaving the office at night ;)