Andrés Rodríguez

About me

I am a full stack software developer located in Montevideo, Uruguay. I picked up programming as a hobby at a very young age and I've developed a successful career off of it helping other people deal with both the interesting and the boring problems that can be automated.

I am language agnostic, and have a very broad range of technical skills that allow me to be particularly useful in vertical problem-solving teams.

I've also had my fair share of experience training junior and intermediate developers become their best technical selves.

Work Experience

ONE - via Qubika

June 2023 - Present | Core Services Engineer

• Work on type-safe HTTP and async messaging frameworks based around Functional Programming principles, developer tooling, DevEx, general platform architecture and optimizing legacy processes to scale for both present and upcoming needs.
• Developed an intermediate representation for io-ts codecs, allowing introspecting into request/response validators for statically checking against backwards incompatible changes and generating OpenAPI documentation.
• Implemented a true monorepo using Moon as the platform for all new cross-language backend development, defining standards for code architecture and integrating unsupported tooling.

Nilus

Jan 2022 - June 2023 | Senior Backend Engineer

• Development and maintenance of key microservices handling Order processing, AuthN+AuthZ for internal and external users, custom data sync pipeline for external ERP system and logistics, among other backend-facing responsibilities.
• Switched API development model over to a gRPC-based toolchain to facilitate the documentation process and discovery, decrease amount of errors caught at runtime and improve inter-service communication performance.
• Coordinated multiple performance optimization efforts with frontend devs, taking ownership and providing hands-on collaboration across the stack.
• Created cross-platform, reproducible development environments and testing tools, turning backend services with complicated set-up requirements into turn-key software that can be ran and integration tested by members of the team and end-users alike with near zero set-up.

December Labs

Sept 2017 - Jan 2022 | Technical Leader

• Created a fully responsive React+TypeScript SPA from scratch for a housekeeping-services provider, smoothly migrating from a PHP monolith and helping the client lead a new investment round with the new software system as a selling point. Later I rejoined the same team to help direct a Kubernetes-based microservice architecture unified by a federated GraphQL API.
• Maintained and developed the backend software and infrastructure of a fitness tracking device that consumed and aggregated large amounts of data per-user in a columnar database, processed it through machine learning and served the data via gRPC and RESTful APIS targeting a number of wildly dissimilar business usecases over the years. Evolved its cloud infrastructure from a multitude of hand-made AWS resources and EC2 instances to a fully reproducible Terraform config and Kubernetes cluster.
• Evolved a Node.js prototype-level backend using TypeScript and functional programming patterns into a production-level service, eliminating major sources of errors while continuing to ship new features.
• Developed and modernized a Clojure backend to use more compositional patterns and ease automated testing, heavily reducing code duplication where applied and allowing for faster, smoother deployment cycles.
• Improved report generation performance for a healthcare system by over 3000%, eliminating one of the top customer complaints for months in under a week.
• Mentored several developers from Junior to Senior levels on different technologies in short periods of time to adapt to each client's specific needs.

Lithersoft

• Developed a proof of concept ERP-lite software that included a Go backend, an Elm backoffice SPA, and a native mobile+desktop application written in Kivy to help wholesale distribution companies organize their stock, customers, deals and track their assets in real time.
• Created the most popular UI widget library for Kivy: KivyMD

Technical skills