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Victor Garro

Technical Lead | Ruby On Rails
Heredia

Summary

Seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 19 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying software solutions in a wide variety of industries including Medical, Email Marketing, Analytics, Real Estate, Advertising, Tech-Ed, Ecommerce and Finance. Proven expertise in software as a service, microservices and distributed systems. Capable of technical leading teams, mentoring junior engineers, and driving projects from ideation to completion in fast-paced Agile environments. Motivated by emerging technologies like Gen-AI to solve complex problems and deliver impactful results. Humble, committed, meticulous, pragmatic, thorough, curious, direct, transparent, communicative and trustworthy.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Hint Health
San Francisco, CA
08.2023 - Current
  • Designed and Implemented one of the most anticipated features for the core product: Scheduled Partial Payments, bringing earnings estimated to $300k / year in processing fees.
  • Designed and Implemented the oldest requested feature for the core product: Pass through fees to members, saving practices thousands of dollars in monthly credit card processing fees.
  • Mentor engineers new to Ruby and Elm, fostering professional growth and enhancing team productivity, reducing onboarding time from 6 months to 3 months.

Lead Consultant

Gorilla Logic
San José, Provincia de San Jose
10.2019 - 08.2023
  • Practice Lead: Interviewed, recruited, mentor and advised the backend practice band of gorillas, increasing the overall quality of the individuals technical skills via brown bags, training sessions, mentoring and coaching.
  • Angi Home Services: Lead a small team of five while designed software architecture, planned, developed and tested a feature to reclaim bad debt payments, accounting for an estimate of $300k / year of possible earnings
  • UDR - Apartments for Rent: Migrated an application to Express.js in record time (less than three months), while playing a leading and active contributor role, saving the company close to $30k in consultancy time.
  • A Place for Mom - Senior Living: Played a key role in a Rails 4 to Rails 6 migration of the two principal revenue making machines, while improving SEO and lead-to-lease overall conversion by 11%, in the doors of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
  • WeedMaps: Directed a geographically distributed team of six in the migration of a legacy Rails 3 to Rails 6 monolith, while transitioning from an unsupported ORM (Data Mapper) into Active Record, contributing to an estimated segment of 3% of their total online sales.

Senior Software Engineer

SchoolMint
San Pedro, Provincia de San Jose
09.2017 - 10.2019
  • Designed, implemented, delivered and verified customizations of several features within the SchoolMint Enrollment and Lottery product, securing five of the biggest Enterprise SchoolMint customers in the need of these customizations.
  • Lead the greatest effort to pay tech-debt by introducing best practices, static code analyzer, metrics, code smell detection and early bug detection.

Senior Software Engineer

Avantica
San Carlos, Provincia De Alajuela
03.2010 - 09.2017
  • G5: Lead and supported a team of four into developing features within a series for Rails applications as well as migrating two applications from AngularJS into Angular
  • Vertical Response: Designed and Implemented the integration with a 3rd party billing provider while maintaining the internal billing infrastructure operating during the integration.
  • Implemented a wide variety of features in both versions of Email Marketing products in a multitude of technologies: Perl, Python, Ruby, Rails, Ember JS, Sybase and MySql

Software Engineer

Northek Software
San Carlos, A
04.2007 - 10.2010

Software Engineer in a variety of languages and frameworks: php, windows mobile (c#), Ruby, Java.

Scrum Master and Project Manager in multiple client facing projects.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Web and Mobile Applications

Universidad Técnica Nacional
San Carlos, SJ
01.2016 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Instituto Tecnológico De Costa Rica
Santa Ana, SJ
01.2003 - 04.2008

Skills

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript / TypeScript

React

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Sidekiq

Python

Elm

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Certification

Angular with Angular Material, Angularfire and NgRx, Udemy, 07/01/22

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Hint Health
08.2023 - Current

Lead Consultant

Gorilla Logic
10.2019 - 08.2023

Senior Software Engineer

SchoolMint
09.2017 - 10.2019

Bachelor of Science - Web and Mobile Applications

Universidad Técnica Nacional
01.2016 - 01.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Avantica
03.2010 - 09.2017

Software Engineer

Northek Software
04.2007 - 10.2010

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Instituto Tecnológico De Costa Rica
01.2003 - 04.2008
Victor GarroTechnical Lead | Ruby On Rails