Carlos Alberto Fau
Software Solutions Maker
About
Enthusiastic professional in software solution development, dedicated to making the world a better place through excellence in product development and service delivery. I thrive in team environments, am open to continuous learning, and have extensive experience in leveraging information technology to meet challenging goals.
I am passionate about using Software Engineering as a tool to turn people's dreams into reality. As a friendly, curious, and adaptable Software Engineer, I bring a wealth of experience in developing software applications, teaching, and helping teams to improve. I also have training in Ontological Coaching.
My technical expertise spans a variety of technologies and languages, including GO, Kotlin, Scala, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python. I have worked with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, and have experience with indexing using Elasticsearch. I am skilled in messaging and communication technologies like RabbitMQ, Kafka, PubSub, gRPC, and REST services. Additionally, I have deployed applications on Kubernetes with CI/CD pipelines, leveraging both custom-made and open-source tools, and have worked with AWS, GCE, and on-premise infrastructures.
I have a comprehensive background in requirements gathering, software design and development, team leadership, quality control, quality assurance, and project management. I am committed to using my skills and experience to achieve excellence in software engineering and to make a positive impact on the world.
Work Experience
Engineering Lead
Senior member on Lending Platform development
Highlights
- Improved the deployment infrastructure by implementing Kubernetes and CI/CD support
- Designed and developed the lending platform microservices that provided service to out customers
- Helped other team member by couching on OOD, TDD, Clean Code, DDD, and Microservices
- Technologies: GO, Python, MongoDB, PubSub, CQRS, Kubernetes, GCE, GIT
- Methodologies: Scrum, DevOps, TDD, BDD, Clean Code, Clean Architecture, SOLID, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Microservices, Object Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, UML
Technology Consultant
Senior member on the Blockchain Group
Highlights
- Helped to demystify the problem domain applying Business Domain modeling techniques, and provided a guide to blockchain technologies.
- Simplified technology by using Architecture and Design modeling, with application of Clean Code and Clean Architecture concepts.
- Improved the team performance by coaching on the practical use of Scrum and Agile principles.
- Integrated the Algorand network to the company platform by leading of the Algo team.
- Main technologies and languages involved: Blockchain (Ethereum, Avalanche, Algorand), TypeScript, Java, Microservices, Kubernetes.
VP of Engineering
Leading the technology team to improve the platform
Highlights
- Increase software robustness and reliability by introducing software engineering practices and updating the technology stack
- Introduced of quality approach to software development
- Migrated monolith to microservices architecture, and DevOps philosophy
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Senior member on Platform team
Highlights
- Helped teams to migrate services to Kubernetes
- Helped to reduce Kubernetes costs by using Spot instances, and Operators
- Improved microservices development by introducing a new template based on Kotlin+KTor+Arrow
Principal Software Engineer
Senior member on Word Crack 2 team. It is a Social Word game for mobile devices
Highlights
- Helped to increased team productivity and app robustness by introducing new architecture guidelines for mobile App
- Improved app performance by using best algorithm for vocabulary handling
- Reduced deployment time and complexity by new backend infrastructure (Kubernetes)
- Increase user engagement by developing a bot player service
- [Unity, C#, Kotlin, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Scrum]
Architecture and DevOps Manager
Building the new information technology infrastructure and tools
Highlights
- Reduced deployment time, increased observability and service resilience by implementing an infrastructure based on Kubernetes and CI/CD.
- Helped to improve ecommerce web application by developing new functionality on a modern architecture based on microservices.
- Improved team performance by providing supporting tools, methods, and processes.
- Reduced AWS infrastructure cost.
Architect
Leading the building of the new eCommerce infrastructure and application
Highlights
- Developed a microservices infrastructure based on Kubernetes over AWS
- Developed the Product Catalog solution
- Led the development of the Price Management solution
- Promoted the work in multidisciplinary collocated teams
- Introduced microservices (domain driven) architecture
- Built the new DevOps team
- [Scala, Golang, Akka, Play, Functional Programming, MongoDB, Kafka, Javascript, React, Redux, Git]
Software Architect and Team Lead
Lead the Checkout team to develop the new version of the module. Start working on the new Global Architecture
Highlights
- Improved the team productivity
- Improved the performance of critical sections
- Developed new Stock module
- [Java 8, Spring, Scala, PHP, Git, Scrum]
Senior Software Engineer
Requirement analysis, software module design, coding, and testing for the Customer Experience Management system. Lead engineer of Social Media Team including the responsibility of the product availability.
Highlights
- Improved stability and availability of Unsolicited Feedback module
- Improved product internal quality by increasing modularity, reducing dependencies, and upgrading technology
- Incremented business value by new functionality
- [Java 7, jQuery, String Template, Struts, Functional Programming, Scala, JMS, PostgreSQL, Mercurial, Git]
Java Senior Developer, Architect, and Team leader
Applicants evaluation, team building, and coaching. Development of technical proposals and planning. Project development and maintenance involvement. Performance evaluation and improvement.
Highlights
- Customer Monsanto:
- Departmental Application Development. [WebLogic, SQL Server, Java 6, Hibernate, JPA, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Tiles, JSP, JSTL, jQuery, JSON]
- Performance evaluation and improvement. [WebLogic, RichFaces, Facelets, JSF, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, Java 1.6]
- Application Development team leader. [WebLogic, Tomcat, Jetty, Angular, Spring MVC, Spring WebServices, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, Oracle, UML, Scrum, OpenUP]
Java Architect
Highlights
- Customer: Bioware Inc. an Electronic Arts company
- In client premises in Austin, Texas, USA. Design definitions, coding, and testing. Customer support application with 1000+ users.
- [Glassfish Advanced Server, REST, JSON, XML-RPC, JMS/MDB, JPA, Oracle SQL]
Java Senior Developer, Architect, Project Leader
Highlights
- Customer: TWG
- Java Senior Developer
- Mission critical business applications maintenance. Java technologies based. Daily Scrum meetings with distributed team in Chicago, Mendoza and Buenos Aires.
- [JBoss AS, Liferay Portal, Portlet, jQuery, DWR, Ajax, TIBCO PageBus, JSF, JSP, Spring MVC, Spring, JBoss DROOLS, Hibernate, iBatis, SQL Server, DB400, Maven]
- Customer: Veraz
- Project leader, Architect, and Java Senior Developer
- 4 member Team Leadership doing requirements elicitation, architecture and design, and front-end module development for the B2C Web application. Visual components Framework Development to satisfy bandwidth constraints.
- [jQuery, JSON, Ajax, Alf (custom framework developed for the project), CSS, JavaScript, YUI, Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Spring, Maven]
- Customer: Blue IT
- Project leader, and Senior Developer
- 7 members Team building and leadership team in developing a Web application, architecture modeling, and team coaching. Daily Scrum Meeting with distributed team in Barcelona and Buenos Aires.
- IU Project: [J2EE, Oracle, JBoss, Web Services, SEAM, Richlets, RichFaces, Hibernate. RichFaces Component development.]
- EC Project: [Web Site, Spring MVC, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, PL/SQL]
- WC Project: [PHP 5, MySQL, batch download framework developed]
- Customer: SMS
- Senior developer and specialist
- Performance optimization for a middleware application with more than 10 million records processed in each daily run. Development of a fast algorithm for regional tree identification mapping.
- [J2EE, WebLogic, JSP, Spring, EMB, Oracle. Spring Batch evaluated for ETL]
Corporate Head of Software Quality
Managing a 30 people team in the execution of software quality assurance audits, quality control, architecture validation, software configuration management, subcontractor evaluation, process definition, development and maintenance of process support tools.
Highlights
- Institutionalized a project management processes (CMM-I) in 100% of the projects.
- Developed and deployed a project management metrics system.
- Established a quality management function.
- Increased the test group (QC) scope.
- Established a semi-automatic source code review process (SAP, Java, VB).
- Established procedures and tools for configuration management and change control (SAP, MS-TFS, SVN).
- Trained on Software engineering disciplines (requirements development, UML, testing) and project management practices (PMI).
Idea Factory
October 2003 – July 2004
Software Requirements Engineering Specialist
Requirement elicitation and specification, UML (RUP) modeling, technical proposal development, CMM level 3 assessment participation.
Regional project leader
Regional application integration.
Highlights
- Deployed a Vignette content manager.
- Developed Regional management reports on Intranet.
- Developed Regional applications.
Chief of methodology
Managing 8 people on software development and maintenance process definition, management of organizational training on technical competences and tools. Intranet and internal process supporting tools development.
Highlights
- Developed Process support tools, and Corporate Intranet.
- Designed and developed a Java application Framework.
- Institutionalised proces definitions for the Year 2000 projects.
- Trained technical staff on process and technical disciplines.
- Developed an application for automatic review of Java code.
- Developed a Software Configuration Management tool.
- Developed a tool for impact analysis of COBOL code.
- [WebSphere, Java, LJSQL (custom development), LJSP (custom development), SQL Server, VB, MS-Access]
Sistemática - Banco Quilmes
June 1992 – August 1997
Head of Software Engineering
Project management processes definition and process improvement (CMM).
Highlights
- Defined a Software development process.
- Developed the organization physical data model.
- Developed and implemented a process and tools for Mainframe source code configuration management.
- Formerly as Research and Development Supervisor
- Introduce new tools and techniques for software development.
- Implemented of a PC development environment.
- Trained and assembled a PC development team.
Lecturer
Courses:
Highlights
- Software Processes and Tools
- Formal Languages and Automaton
Lecturer
Lecturer on Software Engineering courses
Highlights
- Requirement Engineering
- Software Design
- Project Management
- Quality Management
Grade and post-grade lecturer
Lecturer on Software Engineering courses
Course Assistant Student
Class assistance in courses on Physics, Electronic Engineering, Computing Theory.
Education
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1998
Morón University
Bachelor
Information Systems
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2015
Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas (Computing Department)
Course
N1: Automatic Software Repair
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2015
ScrumAlliance
Certification course
Scrum Master
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2009
Sincro Consultora
International Diploma program
Organizational Achievements Specialization in Companies, from the Point of view of Coaching
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2008
CoCrear Argentina
Diploma program
Ontological Coaching with Business Orientation Professional training program of Ontological Coaches.
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2006
Orbi Consultant
Training program
Management
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2006
UADE Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
Skill development program
Management
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1988
EBAI III - Tercera Escuela Brasilero - Argentina de Informática
Summer courses
Topics in Software Engineering and Computer Architecture
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1987
EBAI II - Segunda Escuela Brasilero - Argentina de Informática
Summer courses
Topics in Software Engineering and Computer Architecture
Skills
Programming
Master
Go
Kotlin
TypeScript
Scala
Java
SQL
others
Programming
Good
Python
Dart
C#
Frontend Development
Intermediate
Flutter
Svelte
React
Vue
Software Design and Architecture
Master
Clean Architecture
Functional Programming
Object Oriented Programming
Design Pattern
Microservices
Event driven, Event sourcing, CQRS
Reactive Programming
SOLID principles
Requirement Engineering
Master
Structured Analysis
Object Oriented Analysis
Event Drive Modelling
UML
Requirement Elicitation
Development libraries and frameworks
Ktor
React
Redux
Angular JS
Spring (Boot, MVC, Batch, Data, others)
Jersey
Guava
Play
Akka (core, Streams, HTTP)
Hibernate
Cats (functional)
Unity
Configuration management tools
Git
Mercurial
Perforce
SVN
Build automation
Maven
Gradle
SBT
CI/CD
GitLab
Jenkins
Spinnaker
Methods and techniques
TDD
Scrum
Kanban
OOA
OOD
OpenUP
UML
IDEF1X
Structure Analysis and Design
RUP
Iconix
Function Point
CMM & CMM-I
ITIL
ISO-9000
PMBok
SWEBOK
Database and other tools
MySql
Oracle
MongoDB
Redis
Hazelcast
RabbitMQ
ElasticSearch
Kafka
Infrastructure
AWS
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Grafana
Docker
GCE
Interests
Travel
Landscapes
Old world
Movies
Science Fiction
Epics
Books
Novels
Science Fiction