Violeta Calvo Ilundain

I was tech lead from August 2022. I was glad coaching the team to grow and contributing to find solutions at a higher level than I did in my previous experiences.

• As a Full Stack Engineer I contributed to develop and improve features and fix bugs using best practices and clean code.
• As Tech Lead I coached the team by leading 1:1s, giving technical feedback through PR reviews and also when designing the technical solution.
• This experience allowed me to develop my technical skills by coaching and contributing in a higher level.
• We had freedom to choose our work methodology and we got inspiration from different known methodologies like scrum or shape up building a custom one to fit our needs.
• Some technologies I used were: Node.js, React, Express, TSOA, PostgreSQL, TypeORM, Heroku, AWS.

I was part of the backend team. I was glad to learn form my colleges exchanging, giving and receiving feedback, and taking decisions to migrate to a more modern stack and cleaner code while improving our product with new features.

• As part of the Backend team in a I contributed to develop new features, new services, fix bugs and sharing my opinions with the team to take decisions about improving our app.
• We migrated from legacy code to a more modern and suitable framework and distributed architecture to fits our current customers needs, using better practices and clean code.
• While trying to improve the existing code, as part of the team I also solved bugs and implemented new features.
• This experience allowed me to faster develop my technical and team skills, giving and receiving feedback, and exchanging with my colleges.
• We switched our management from SCRUM to a custom Shape Up in early 2021.
• Some technologies I used were: Node.js, NestJS, Next.js, Loopback, GraphQL, Javascript, Typescript, Stripe API, Google API, Outlook API, GCP, MongoDB.

I was the only full time developer for the first period of 10 months and then I became the only developer and web engineer in the company working hand to hand with the CEO to publish apps and doing the graphic design.

• I was involved in all the phases of the software development.
• From a prototype app created by the CTO, I followed the PWA development with Meteor framework implementing new app features as well as API integrations.
• I was responsible for publishing the PWA version of the app.
• I was responsible for developing, building and publishing the Android and iOS app versions using Meteor Cordova.
• I designed and built the back-office app. This back-office app included advanced payment methods and payment problem solving using Stripe API including managing refunds.
• I translated the app and site texts, as well as the terms of service of the main app, from french to english or spanish
• I did some basic marketing tasks including video animations and some Social Media Marketing.
• Some technologies I used are: Meteor, MongoDB, Javascript, Coffeescript, Material Design, Bootstrap, Jade, Git, Stripe API, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google API, Jekyll, Stylus, Mandrill API, Heroku, AWS.