Alejandro Garcia
Project Manager at Input Output (IOHK)
About
I'm a software developer, CS teacher and Entrepreneur with experience creating small tech companies. I love leading small focused teams to achieve success and I also love teaching introduction to programming to high school, college and graduated students. My favorite technologies right now: Elixir, Elm, Haskell, GraphQL, Emacs, Ubuntu.
Work Experience
Project Manager
IOHK is a Hong Kong-based software development company that builds custom cryptocurrencies for corporations, governments and academic institutions. Our mission is to build cryptocurrencies to provide the world's 3-billion unbanked people with the financial services that they are missing. We were founded in 2015 by Jeremy Wood and Charles Hoskinson who have built Ethereum (the most powerful and successful smart contracts technology) and Bitshares (the first attempt at creating a value-stable cryptocurrency). Our executive team also includes academics and entrepreneurs with experience building cryptocurrency-related businesses and services.
Associate Professor
I teach classes in: * Software Quarity Assurance (agile) * Discrete Math (haskell) * Distributed Systems ( RabbitMQ) * Software Components (APIs, REST)
Softlogik
Zacatecas, México
February 2010 – August 2010
CEO / CTO
I started the company step strategic vision Trained the first employees in Scrum, Kanban and Unit Testing
Software Analyst
Software developer mainly in PHP
Tecnologias DEXA
January 2002 – February 2006
CEO / Cofounder
5 friends and I started this software Company in Zacatecas. Probably the first software company on the state. Although there some earlier individual attempts at it. Got it grow to 13 employees and Later "collapsed" I was director for a period of 2 years.
DBA Servicios Escolares
Write SQL queries.. Create AD-Hoc reports to decision makers Ensure the quality of the Database
Volunteer
Mentor
I've been a mentor for this event in 4 ocasions. Teaching young entrepreneurs about Business Model Canvas, Lean Startup and Fast Prototyping.
Zacatecas Fuck Up Nights
January 2014 – January 2015
Organizer
Once a month Five diferrent entrepreneurs share their Failure stories in order to inspire young people to try and start their own business. Without fear of failure.
Contact
Mexico
US
+524921228171
Education
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2010 Present
Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C.
Master in Software Engineering
Software Engineering, Project Management
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1996 2000
Tecnológico de Monterrey
BS
Systems Engineering
Grade: 96/100
Skills
Backend
Senior
Haskell
Eiffel
PHP
Python
Linux
Design Patterns
Bash Scripting
Frontend
Junior
Typescript
Elm
htmx
Agile Methods / Project Management
Senior
Kanban Trainner
Scrum
PSP Personal Software Process
TOC thinking Processes
Coaching & Mentoring
Ops
Junior
Google Cloud
AWS
REST ?
Database
Mid
MySQL
SQL
Neo4j
TypeDB