Alejandro G.

Alejandro G.

Senior Software Engineer

Medellin, Colombia
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About Me

Alejandro is a Senior Full-stack Web Developer with 10+ years of industry experience and mastery in the application of modern web development technologies, frameworks, and best practices on projects. He has delivered 40+ projects for clients, optimizing solution functionality and performance. Alejandro is a keen learner who masters new tech stacks and brings in new perspectives in delivering high-quality, dynamic products to clients.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Full-stack Web Developer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participating in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensuring that features are being delivered efficiently and on time.

DistantJob
DistantJob
Senior Web Developer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Remote
  • Actively collaborated with the product manager on www.surgent.com and implemented different client-facing web services/solutions on the project.

  • Managed the API systems for 10 eCommerce clients and the company's market pixels system using WooCommerce almost daily.

  • Developed and implemented highly performant applications for clients, maintaining code integrity and organization on solutions.

InteliClic
InteliClic
Senior Web Developer
2016 - 2019 (3 years)
Remote
  • Developed and set up new back-end solutions for several internal/external projects with appropriate modules, tools, and components.

  • Worked on the implementation of a mid-sized API, handling processes as a proxy for several client websites.

  • Oversaw the integration of a CRM system with an API handling around 5 million requests.

Pricode, Inc.
Pricode, Inc.
Founder & CEO
2016 - Present (8 years)
Medellin, Colombia

Leading a team of software development experts working on WordPress, WooCommerce, and full-stack projects for clients.

Resolute Creative
Resolute Creative
IT Consultant
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Remote
  • Provided production expertise, architected new solutions, and handled several projects for clients using different web technologies.

  • Built custom solutions for enhancements/improvements to diodes.com, a customized API and back-end system that keeps an inventory of the company's products/categories, and to doorson-line.com, a custom CodeIgniter panel for company management.

  • Ensured the technical feasibility of complex issues, created custom modules, debugged issues on client sites, and patched modules using different web tools.

Permalink
Permalink
Chief Technology Officer
2013 - 2016 (3 years)
Medellin, Colombia
  • Designed, developed, and implemented solutions using tech stacks that fully serve Permalink's requirements.

  • Initiated, contributed, and executed engineering best practices for the successful delivery of commercial solutions for the client using WooCommerce.

  • Managed a team and instilled a robust coding culture to maintain top-quality performance and ensure the release of solutions.

Vajra Sacred Media
Vajra Sacred Media
WordPress Developer
2011 - 2015 (4 years)
Remote
  • Followed best practices, standards, and guidelines to iterate new functionalities, themes, and plugins on WordPress solutions for clients.

  • Delivered custom websites and web applications on projects using WordPress and WooCommerce.

  • Participated in regular WordPress maintenance tasks, creating integrations from and to various third-party application data sources.

Portfolio

Developer - Martinsburg Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce
Developer - Martinsburg Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce

Berkeley Chamber of Commerce provides interested parties with a voice that is heard through its Government Affairs Committee, which identifies legislative issues of importance to members and presents those concerns to legislators and other elected and appointed government officials. Developed the website, iterating several front-end features (Carousel and front-end changes) and a specific plugin for donations on the platform through PayPal.

React.js Developer - Flixed TV Guide
React.js Developer - Flixed TV Guide

The Flixed TV Guide matches users with the best cable replacements in minutes, helping them discover new ways of watching movies, shows, and content they know and love. They can choose their local provider from a list of local and national channels for complete listings of cable, satellite, and over-the-air channels. Created the plugin integration on WordPress using React.js, which connects the website to the Flixed TV database.

Full-stack Developer - Superhuman OS
Full-stack Developer - Superhuman OS

Superhuman OS is the result of decades of research and is considered by many to be one of the most important tools for understanding ourselves and others. It is an online course for self-improvement developed by Ken Wilber, a world-renowned author in this area. Created the website, course architecture, and custom Shortcode frameworks for users to create specific modules on the website and oversaw site maintenance for 5+ years.

Architect/Developer - Swipecast Blog
Architect/Developer - Swipecast Blog

Swipecast Edition provides news, insights, and advice for fashion creatives in the tech age, highlighting talents, influencers, and visionaries on the vanguard of the industry and providing a close look from the frontlines at the way technology and social media are shaping and disrupting today’s rapidly changing fashion landscape. Developed new functionalities, themes, and plugins for the solution from scratch.

Architect/Main Developer - EDnet
Architect/Main Developer - EDnet

EDnet service offers directors, producers, and editors instant real-time digital, audio, and video communications. Provided WordPress website and plugin development solutions and curated custom website themes and plugins on the project. Developed the plugin that integrated the solution with an internal application giving clients access to a membership plan with some private information.

Architect | Ruby on Rails Developer - Vuelteros
Architect | Ruby on Rails Developer - Vuelteros

Vuelteros provides solutions to clients' time and mobility problems through a platform to contact and choose couriers and drivers for services quickly and safely. Participated in the development of a system for tracking deliveries and engineered a basic API for the mobile app and other features.

Full-stack Developer - Doors On-Line
Full-stack Developer - Doors On-Line

Worked on new solutions for the Doors On-Line website, an online garage door store that provides US-made sectional doors by Amarr Garage Doors and coiling rollup doors by US Door and Janus International. The website features allow users to create quotations and make payments on desired doors. Improved the website usability and back-end solution management.

Education

Engineer's Degree
Engineer's Degree
Universidad de Antioquia - Colombia
2006 - 2010 (4 years)