Iván Pondal
Mentor
(3 reviews)
US$15.00
For every 15 mins
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Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Software engineer with 5+ years of experience in backend development
Software engineer with 5+ years of experience in backend development
Iván is a problem solver and facilitator with a range of software development skills, including React, Next.js and Spring, which enable him to solve and materialize clients' needs efficiently. He is a full-stack developer empowered by a strong expertise in API and microservice development. Leveraging his computer science background and endless curiosity, he balances battle-tested solutions with the latest technical advances, delivering clients an industry-grade solid and scalable product.
Spanish, English
Buenos Aires (-03:00)
Joined October 2020
EXPERTISE
6 years experience | 1 endorsement
Java has been my main language for developing enterprise grade solutions leveraging its battle-tested frameworks and libraries. I'm prett...
Java has been my main language for developing enterprise grade solutions leveraging its battle-tested frameworks and libraries. I'm pretty familiar with its environment and dealing with its limitations; performance troubleshooting, heap dump analysis, dependency management, etc.
4 years experience
REST API design and implementation; deployment and operationalization of scalable and highly available microservices written from scratch.
REST API design and implementation; deployment and operationalization of scalable and highly available microservices written from scratch.
Service proxies
3 years experience
Developed control planes for both Envoy and Kong proxies. Maintained a production API Gateway handling millions of requests per minute.
Developed control planes for both Envoy and Kong proxies. Maintained a production API Gateway handling millions of requests per minute.
2 years experience
Python is my go to language for quick scripts or simple programs; mainly scrapers. I have enough experience with it to feel comfortable t...
Python is my go to language for quick scripts or simple programs; mainly scrapers. I have enough experience with it to feel comfortable tackling down simple problems or helping troubleshoot issues.
2 years experience
1 year experience
3 years experience
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(3 reviews)
Lawrence Joe
February 2021
Focused and listened and gave advise to my concerns.
Denis
December 2020
I got great help during session. Iván listens carefully and tries to give full answers for questions. Also Iván can see hidden reasons of issues and lead you to solution
Matan Sabag
November 2020
Ivan is a super-professional guy that goes way and beyond to make sure all of my questions are answered thoroughly.
Moreover, Ivan is pleasant, nice, with a very positive attitude and an impressive fluent English level.
All of this makes Ivan a no-brainer when it comes of giving 5 stars rating.
SOCIAL PRESENCE
text-unshredding
Text unshredding using an ATSP solver
Python
9
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aed1-tp2
Trabajo práctico Nº 2 - Algoritmos y Estructuras de Datos I - FCEN, UBA
TeX
1
0
EMPLOYMENTS
Fullstack Developer
Toptal
2022-07-01-2022-10-01
Worked as a fullstack developer on a cooking social network:
- Delivered multiple image upload feature which required updatin...
Worked as a fullstack developer on a cooking social network:
- Delivered multiple image upload feature which required updating the whole frontend and backend to allow the creation/editing and viewing of recipes with more than one image.
- Added a completely new user profile React component with map integration, fully tested with Storybook.
- Refactored Next.JS backend APIs with an abstraction to unify Algolia search index integration.
- Leveraged Typescript by fixing API types which prevented undefined/null runtime errors.
- Fixed several bugs, from back-end integrations to presentation errors and browser-specific behaviors.
PostgreSQL
TypeScript
React
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PostgreSQL
TypeScript
React
CSS
Jest
Material-UI
Next.js
Storybook
RESTful API
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Senior Software Engineer
Medallia
2016-10-01-2020-09-01
Webapp and microservices development within infrastructure team responsible for the company's cloud service-mesh, API gateway and...
Webapp and microservices development within infrastructure team responsible for the company's cloud service-mesh, API gateway and other core services.
- Built a Web API gateway with a custom control plane able to withstand +80k request/minute.
- Set up and run +20k concurrent users performance tests on our API gateways.
- Developed API catalog webapp for listing and discovery of internal APIs.
Java
Spring
JMeter
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Java
Spring
JMeter
Docker
Dropwizard
Kong
Envoy proxy
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Teaching Assistant
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
2018-02-01-2018-08-01
Worked as a teacher assistant for the Programming Paradigms course.
- Helped with design and correction of group assignments ...
Worked as a teacher assistant for the Programming Paradigms course.
- Helped with design and correction of group assignments and exams.
- Led lab classes.
Haskell
Prolog
Smalltalk
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Haskell
Prolog
Smalltalk
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PROJECTS
Toptal React AcceleratorView Project
2022
The Toptal React Accelerator is an exclusive learning program that educates JavaScript developers in React, Next.js, Redux, and GraphQL. ...
The Toptal React Accelerator is an exclusive learning program that educates JavaScript developers in React, Next.js, Redux, and GraphQL. This two-month program consists of rigorous learning exercises and hands-on activities, a stringent evaluation process, comprehensive learning assessments, and 30-40 hours of building an invoice management system. Within this invoicing application, users are able to track invoices, clients, and company information.
TypeScript
React
CSS
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TypeScript
React
CSS
Material-UI
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