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Rafael Poveda

Frontend Developer

Currently living in Bogot谩, Colombia.
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Who am i?

Hi!, I'm a Frontend developer who loves working with web technologies. I really passionate about learning everything I can about web development and technology in general. For more than 12 years I麓ve been creating web experiences for multiple industries.

Where have i worked?

Chief technology officer - Maifud

1 year

( Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 )

Remote 馃寧

Worked as CTO leading the full stack development of the startup.

  • Built from the ground-up the entire client-side application
  • Meeting with possible partnerships to include new ways to capture customers
  • Creation of the upsell functionality that increased weekly sales by 30%

Tools:

PythonDjangoReactHerokuPostgreSQLTypescriptFirebase

Software engineer - Uber

1 year and 4 months

( Aug 2022 - Dec 2023 )

Remote 馃寧

Frontend developer for Uber working on Cornershop's products

  • I worked as part of the team incharge keeping the operation of Cornershop until is fully merged with Uber's groseries strategy
  • I was responsable of helping multiple teams to keep the operation running by fixing bugs and creating new features

Tools:

ReactAWSDjangoNodeFirebase

Engineering manager - Cornershop by Uber

4 months

( Apr 2022 - Aug 2022 )

Remote 馃寧

As an engineering manager I coordinate and oversee the technical decisions of an internal product in the company. Also, I manage a multi disciplinary team of engineers working for an internal product

  • Estimate engineering efforts for upcoming projects
  • Evaluate technical feasibility
  • Hire new engineers
  • Take care of bugs and work closely with engineers to reduce technical debt

Tools:

ReactNodeFirebaseTypescript

Technical Leader Frontend - Cornershop by Uber

1 year and 7 months

( Aug 2020 - Mar 2022 )

Santiago, Chile 馃嚚馃嚤

Technical leader of a group of 14 frontend developers working for internal applications.

  • Work closely with HR team to hire new frontend developers for the company
  • Do 1:1 feedback meetings with developers
  • Decide the arquitecture and tech stack of new projects
  • Maintain the internal NPM registry of the company
  • Create a maintain internal tools for other developers within the company

Tools:

ReactNodeFirebaseTypescriptVue

Frontend Engineer - Cornershop by Uber

1 year and 4 months

( Apr 2019 - Aug 2020 )

Santiago, Chile 馃嚚馃嚤

I was the first frontend enginner in Cornershop's operations team that was responsable of creating internal tools to manage their entire operation.

  • Develop tens of internal applications to facilate operations team's work
  • Help with the hiring process of new frontend engineers creating a team from scratch

Tools:

ReactNodeFirebaseTypescriptVue

UI Lead Architect - Adessa Falabella

1 year and 5 months

( Jun 2017 - Nov 2018 )

Santiago, Chile 馃嚚馃嚤

Falabella's frontend team leader. Responsible for ensuring the quality of the falabella frontend team's developments of both the team from Chile and India.

    Tools:

    ReactNodeFirebaseTypescript

    Frontend Developer - Adessa Falabella

    1 year and 1 month

    ( May 2017 - Jun 2018 )

    Santiago, Chile 馃嚚馃嚤

    I was part of one of the teams that was responsable for developing new features on the entire checkout process used by Falabella's ecommerce

      Tools:

      ReactNodeFirebaseTypescript

      Software Engineer - Falabella.com Chile

      1 year and 8 months

      ( Sep 2015 - May 2017 )

      Santiago, Chile 馃嚚馃嚤

      Software engineer in Falabella's coorporative marketing team in Chile. My main job was to create tools for the local teams on each country in which Falabella had a presence. Also, I helped local teams with their needs.

      • I worked on the team that rewrote Falabella's ecommerce in React
      • I created multiple tools that helped local teams to create hard sell landing pages faster

      Tools:

      jQueryAngularGoogle AnalyticsCSS

      Lead Developer - Falabella.com Colombia

      11 months

      ( Oct 2014 - Sep 2015 )

      Bogot谩, Colombia 馃嚚馃嚧

      Lead frontend developer for Falabella's marketing team in Colombia. I was in charge of creating the landing pages for the hard sales events and internal tools that facilitate the work in all teas. Led a small team of two frontend junior developers helping them to create small applications and responsive email templates.

      • I created an internal CMS for hard sale events like CyberMonday and Black Friday managed the commertial team with Django and Angular.js. This application reduced the amount of time nedeed to create an event from 2 days to a couple of hours.
      • I developed a small jQuery utility to create banners with multiple internal links on them with an integration to our internal analytics tool.

      Tools:

      jQueryAngularGoogle AnalyticsCSS

      Frontend Developer - Falabella.com Colombia

      1 year and 7 months

      ( Mar 2013 - Oct 2014 )

      Bogot谩, Colombia 馃嚚馃嚧

      I worked as the first frontend developer for Falabella's marketing team in Colombia. I was responsible of creating the markup of lannding pages designed by the design team and email marketing as well.

        Tools:

        jQueryAngularCSS

        What have i studied?

        Licenciatura en Electr贸nica - Universidad Pedag贸gica Nacional

        ( Jul 2006 - Jul 2013 )

        "Estimaci贸n del foco de atenci贸n visual por medio de tecnicas de visi贸n artificial" - 4.8/5.0

        What have i talked about?

        TypeScript in the real world

        -Slides

        Introductory level talk for Noders Chile about TypeScript and how it's benefits for Frontend Development.

        TypeScript and why you should be using it...

        -Slides

        How can TypeScript can increase productivity between Backend and Frontend developers that use Javascript and main language. This talk was part of the *Tech Talks* series in Adessa Falabella.