Paraguay

Full stack

Customer Experience (CX)

Front-end

Back-end

QA Engineer

Project Management

Architectural Engineering

Computer Technician and Support

Carlos Almeida

Senior Full Stack Engineer

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Public Speaking

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

Cloud computing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Optimizely

Postman

React

Trello

Typeform

WordPress

Zapier

Adobe Photoshop

Amplitude

Asana

ChatGPT

D3.js

Docker

Figma

GitHub

HTML

JavaScript

Jira

Lucidchart

Confluence

GitLab

Google Analytics

gRPC

REST API

MongoDB

Zendesk

Selenium

Redis

PostgreSQL

Node.js

Product roadmap

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Partner site:
- https://www.earnin.com

Duties:
- I have collaborated in the development and maintenance of some API Rest microservices used for different internal tools written in C# and .NET 6
- I have actively collaborated to support the CX team with issues to solve their routine tasks.
- I have collaborated to maintain and resolve issues related to a low-code platform (Retool) used for the internal tools. I have also participated in meetings with Retool's technical support team to explain technical problems that we have encountered over time and suggest ways for the provider to implement improvements.
- I have collaborated in the implementation of new features for the internal tools using the low-code platform by consuming API Rest or gRPC endpoints
- I have been in charge of setting up the mono repo for a new in-house platform using tools like NX, Next.js, Typescript and Node.js
- I have collaborated in the development of the design system components to be used in the new in-house platform based on Mantine.dev core and definition of the best practices for front-end development.
- I have collaborated to integrate Okta's integration as an SSO provider and define the initial phase of the RBAC model to be used by the new in-house platform.
- I have collaborated with the security team on the thread modeling analysis for the in-house platform.
- I have actively collaborated with the designers to achieve a productive collaborative environment between them and the development team of the new in-house platform.
- I have collaborated to fix any CVE vulnerabilities that were reported within our repository.
- I have collaborated to develop a set of internal libraries to be used in all internal tools as part of the development
- Was a 100% remote role

After finishing the contract with my previous partner and while I was in transition to a new partner's project, I collaborated full-time with X-Team's internal team in various tasks related to Frontend (React.js) and Backend (Node.js) for some internal platforms. 

https://www.x-team.com

Partner site:
- https://maxdigital.com/

Duties:
- Development and maintenance of a distributed backend system consumed by several client applications and other microservices.
- Development and maintenance of GraphQL Backend using TDD
- I also actively participated in manually testing and reviewing the changes proposed by other team members
- Was a 100% remote role in a hyper-asynchronous team

Partner sites
- https://www.beachbody.com
- https://www.beachbodyondemand.com/

Duties:
- Development and maintenance of a distributed system used as backend API, as well as some serverless microservices where we were processing tasks related to events generated by requests made by the frontend clients.
- Migration of API Rest resources to microservices with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway
- Analyzed and implemented a security layer for AWS APP SYNC using a Custom Lambda Authorizer
- Development and maintenance of frontend clients built with React.js and WordPress
- I also actively participated in manually testing and reviewing the changes proposed by other team members
- Was a 100% remote role

Partner site:
- https://www.adp.com/

Duties:
- I joined a team with an ongoing advanced development project where they needed support in the development flow to make it more agile. To achieve this, I was in charge of analyzing the best way to integrate the QA team as part of the dev team. I also made suggestions for best practices and processes that would help the team achieve the goals defined in the sprint planning
- Lead the QA team performing manual and automation QA
- I supported during this time as well both the backend and the frontend with some contributions in the code repositories
- Was a 100% remote role

Partner sites
- https://www.beachbody.com
- https://www.beachbodyondemand.com/

Duties:
- Migration of REST/SOAP endpoint resources served from a legacy monolithic application to a new serverless infrastructure hosted on AWS servers
- Migration of REST/SOAP endpoint resources used by the legacy Identity Provider server to a 3rd party one
- Ensured millions of end-users were not affected by this migration
- Ensured a dozen of client applications were not affected by this migration
- Developed the security layer of the migrated resources using a custom Lambda Authorizer
- Developed the source code using TDD
- Generated documentation for each resource; this includes the API documentation, flow, architecture, and sequence diagrams
- Performed code reviews for my peers
- Made recommendations to the partner and development team on various processes and resources to achieve the goals of the team
- Helped in the QA process
- Was a 100% remote role

While I was in transition to a partner's project, I collaborated full-time with X-Team's internal team in various tasks related to Frontend (React.js) and Backend (Node.js) for some internal platforms. 

https://www.x-team.com

Site:
- https://www.sweatworks.net/

Duties:
- Led a team of developers with which we migrated an internal legacy product to a new design, new infrastructure, and new technologies to make it more maintainable and scalable in the long term. 
- Suggest technologies and architecture analysis for new projects, code review, helping the company define best practices and development standards, and mentoring developers.
- Was a 100% remote direct hire position for a company in Arlington, VA, United States

Profile: 
- https://www.codementor.io/kararade

Since 2017, I've been working as a freelancer mentor. I've contributed in different ways from my remote location.

Site:
- https://www.sweatworks.net/

Duties:
- Build and maintain web applications and websites for different company customers and internal systems based on predefined designs
- Maintain WordPress headless application used as Backend API consumed by different clients hosted around the world
- Build and maintain internal products focused on the fitness world, such as dashboards for live events and photo galleries used every week by around 20k+ users
- I was in charge of building, designing, and implementing a photo search functionality using face recognition among thousands of photos for an internal product
- Performed migrations from monolithic to serverless microservices
- Build API Rest using serverless microservices
- Was a 100% remote direct hire position for a company in Arlington, VA, United States

Site:
- https://www.rebelmouse.com/

Duties:
- Build and maintain web applications and websites for different company customers based on predefined designs and using pixel-perfect, mobile-first, cross-browsing compatibilities, and frontend best practices.
- Development was primarily on the company's in-house CMS, which specialized in massively distributing the customers' content in an optimized way.
- Was a 100% remote direct hire position for a company in New York, NY, United States

Site:
- https://teamcroco.com

Duties: 
- Development for an A/B testing company where I was the first employee hired.
- Developed scripts using JavaScript to modify the DOM in order to apply changes predefined by an action plan in styles and functionalities to measure the best CTA using A/B testing tools.
- Specialization in pixel-perfect, cross-browsing compatibility, and frontend best practices in order to respect the desired action plan and styles for each A/B test without affecting the performance of the website.
- Was a 100% remote direct hire position for a company in Utrecht, the Netherlands

Profile:
- https://www.upwork.com/fl/kararade

Since 2013, I've been actively working as a freelancer on different projects for customers from around the world, where I have been able to position my profile among one of the best ranked in the region.

Some of the things I have been working on are:
- Web development from landing pages to complex websites
- WordPress development and maintenance
- Server and network configuration
- Maintenance of ongoing sites and projects
- Fix bugs
- Manual and automation testing
- Lead and mentor freelancer teams
- Create architecture and infrastructure for new projects
- Suggest technologies stack for new projects
- Work on monolithic and microservices projects
- API Backend development
- Frontend development
- Mentoring junior developers
- Migrate an entire company from using papers to digital with a software solution made from scratch
- A lot more!

All the work made as a freelancer was 100% remote.

- Build and maintain web applications and websites for different company customers based on predefined designs and using pixel-perfect as the approach.
- Was a 100% remote direct hire position for an agency in Las Vegas, NV, United States

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