David Camargo
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Fractional CTO, Leadership Mentor @ Lidr.co, Product & Engineering Mentor@Founder Institute Bogotá
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
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CTORemote experienceBright FintechApr 2023 - Feb 2024 (11 months)Launched a remittance app to send money from Europe to Africa Direct involvement in MVP development, technical decisions, and engineering team assembly. Managed the 3rd party integrations for payouts, KYC, and compliance. Ensure good practices within the team (code review, pair programming, continuous delivery) Tech Stack: React, TailwindCSS, NextJS, Github Actions, Serverless, Java, Spring Boot- DFractional CTODavid CamargoJan 2023 - Current (1 year 4 months)
- LLeadership MentorLIDR.COJan 2022 - Current (2 years 4 months)
- VP of EngineeringRemote experienceInstaleapFeb 2019 - Mar 2023 (4 years 2 months)- Led the tech team to create a product that generates more than 2M ARR in less than 2 years. - Grew the team. Assesed and hired more than 85+ people for the tech team (software engineers, product managers, designers, support engineers, etc) - Manage the engineering team (approx 102 and counting) 12 direct reporters - Planted and harvested new teams (from software engineering to support). Including product and architectural decisions. Coding when needed. - Be a central coordinator between different stakeholders (internal and external). - Our tech stack: Node.JS, Typescript, Python, ECS, RabbitMQ, Terraform, PostgreSQL, ReactJS, Apollo GraphQL, Firebase, Kotlin
- Tech LeadMercadoniAug 2018 - Feb 2019 (7 months)- Led a team of 15 engineers(backend, web, iOS, Android) for our client-facing applications. - Propose and execute several projects to scale the architecture of the systems and improve reliability and performance. - Established and enforced several guidelines on core systems that helped other teams to experiment on our codebase. - Delivered major versions of the applications (web, iOS, Android) and rescued several dead-end projects. - Tracked several system metrics with Prometheus and Grafana, and some product metrics with Google Analytics and Metabase (SQL) - Coordinated work with the head of product and the head of engineering. - Our tech stack: Node.JS, ECS, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React/Redux/Sagas, Firebase, Kotlin, and Swift. C
- Senior Fullstack EngineerMercadoniMay 2018 - Aug 2018 (4 months)- Developed several features for a new version of the client-facing web application. - Launched the new version of the client-facing web application using a controlled roll-out using CloudFront and lambda@edge. - Migrated several features from the legacy API version to a new one. - Added tracking and monitoring capabilities to the web application and the API's - Tech stack: Node.JS, ECS, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, React/Redux/Sagas, CI/CD with Jenkins (Frontend)
- Senior Front-end DeveloperVerified experienceTorreFeb 2016 - Apr 2018 (2 years 3 months)Most of the time, I worked for Torre Research, one business unit in charge of finding and developing new products with the potential to transform the way in which professionals around the world work. I helped to achieve that goal by: - Architecting and developing the frontend side of 7 different product experiments, 6 alpha products working on Angular and 1 Vue.js beta product currently live and known as Torre Bio. - Developing in Scala /Play the backend side to connect the company-wide messaging microservice, and part of the logic required for the creation of profiles and the recommendation system that the Torre Bio platform uses. - Maintaining, developing and fixing Materrial, a special fork of Vue Material designed to meet company requi
- TProduct ManagerTutoryaJan 2015 - Jul 2015 (7 months)The responsibility of making Tutorya the product that helps develop the hidden potential in every person through academic performance rested on my shoulders. To make it more concrete, my key responsibilities included: *Create clear and attainable product objectives *Use agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean UX) for keep all things in order and develop an awesome product *Ensure a great user experience with Tutorya *Listen and understand the stakeholder's interest and our user needs *Manage the risk involved in the evolution of the product *Build the product requirements *Determine the exact needs of our customers, based on their behavior with the product, and meet them. *Communicate and supervise the UI/UX Process and all of the Software Develop
- TFull Stack DeveloperTutoryaAug 2013 - Nov 2015 (2 years 4 months)In Tutorya, we put our effort into developing the ultimate way for elementary, middle and high school students to achieve their academic goals. I contributed to it in the following ways: - Achieved the goal of the seed round by building a tutoring system (online and offline) for elementary, middle and high school students in Latin America. On the engineering side, we used Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Backbone, Sass, Grunt and jQuery. - Raise an additional A round in which we developed an online experience to prepare more than 1500 students for standardized tests like the GRE and SAT. In this phase, we started using Django REST to build an API that serves the frontend application in Angular.js and a couple integrations with some business part
- GDirector & TeacherGIWEB Universidad DistritalSep 2009 - Aug 2013 (4 years)I had an amazing job at the university managing this workgroup and teaching people about software development trough online and live courses, events and workshops.
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- Systems EngineeringUniverdad distrital Francisco Jose de CaldasJan 2007 - Jun 2013 (6 years 6 months)
Projects
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- MentorFounder InstituteMar 2018 - Current (6 years 2 months)- In the entrepreneurship program, I helped individuals and startups in the process of choosing and validating their ideas Trough workshops, classes and mentor reviews, I help aspiring entrepreneurs to validate their ideas and build products with global impact
- Torre MarrconiVerified experienceTorreNov 2017 - Mar 2018 (5 months)- Marrconi is our messasing system. I contribute coding for it in typescript & node.js
- Torre BioVerified experienceTorreApr 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year)- Develop and propose features. Frontend 80% (Typescript/Vue) and backend 20% (Scala)
- Torre MaterrialVerified experienceTorreApr 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year)- Materrial is our UI library & design system. I contribute developing components, proposing solutions and fixing bugs
- TranslationBunny MVPVerified experienceTorreMar 2016 - Apr 2016 (2 months)- Develop the MVP adjusting several layers of the engine with technologies like Angular, Groovy and PHP.
- TTutorya platformTutoryaAug 2013 - Nov 2015 (2 years 4 months)- Product design, management and development. Using Scrum, Lean UX , Django and AngularJS
- CSunkist Sounds of SummerCainkadeDec 2011 - Jan 2012 (2 months)- Developed facebook app Frontend development of a facebook application called "Sunkist Soda - Flavour your photo"
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- Saber Pro (GRE Equivalent) best students 2015Ministerio de Educación de Colombia, IcfesOct 2015Recognition given by the Ministry of education in Colombia to the best students that presented the "Saber Pro" test (GRE equivalent).
- Best appBlackBerryNov 2012Close to the launch of Blackberry 10, a huge hackathon happened in Bogota in November 2012. With me colleague Juan Sanchez, we identify a common problem in all men that we know "We don't know how to be good boyfriends", so we developed an app to collect data from your girlfriend and get suggestions and reminders to have a successful relationship. The app was called "Call me maybe" honoring an annoying song from that time.
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- Mercadoni Tech BlogMercadoniJun 2018 - Current (5 years 11 months)- I am leading the effort of sharing the lessons learned in every team of our tech area.