Francisco Rivera

ShipHero

Python Developer • Mar, 2021 — Present

Back into the backend world, but with an enhanced AWS/Scalability mindset.

• Focused heavily on improving the performance of the processes and API endpoints.
• Added new features and integrations with external agents.
• Helped cleaning up the typical security mess companies get over the years.
• Sacrified a few neurons to pay some of the ethernal technical debt.

ShipHero

DevOps Engineer • Oct, 2019 — Mar, 2021

ShipHero is a platform focused on providing scaling eCommerce businesses with a comprehensive cloud based warehouse and order management system.

• Migrated hundred of snowflake servers and service configurations into an IaC approach using Terraform.
• Contributed to the company by developing and setting tools to help on the monitoring, logging and debugging processes.
• Worked heavily on automate the scaling up of the resources while attending an increase demand over our APIs, without losing a cost-effective focus.
• And of course, at the front line attending fires! bringing key information and helping devs to figure out solutions.

Mozio.com

Backend Developer + DevOps • Jan, 2015 — Sep, 2019

Mozio is a ground transportation search engine, supporting B2B and B2C solutions.

• Joined on the early years of the startup, where I worked heavily on refactoring and adding new features on the API to support the rapidly growing business/user base.
• Integrated lot of externals APIS into our transaction flow, dealing with the constant issue of understanding the ad hoc solutions each provider took.
• Helped the business team by developing ETL pipelines in combination with reporting tools.
• Actively worked on the migration of our monolith into a microservice architecture.
• Shifted partially into a DevOps position to take care and improve all the Amazon Web Service infrastructure, including instances, databases, caches, CI/CD pipeline, among other things.
• Worked of the server security aspects of the PCI Compliance standard.

Globant

Python Developer • Jun, 2014 — Jan, 2015

Worked as a contractor for Yourshot. Yourshot is a social network from National Geographic for photographers. Focused only on the backend side, had to maintain and add new features to the API. The whole project was running on a modern architecture with a high traffic constraint, so high performance and scalability was key here.

Python, Django, Postgresql, Celery, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch.

Educativa.com

Full-stack Developer • Feb, 2011 — Jan, 2013

Educativa is an e-learning platform with 2 million active users mostly on Latam. It was also my first job experience. Worked on the whole aspects of the application. From CSS to SQL, passing through Perl and Javascript. Had to dealt with ton of legacy code on a complicated non well-defined architecture. Was painful but learned a lot.

Perl, Javascript, MySql.

Universidad Tecnologica Nacional - Facultad Regional Rosario

Engineer's Degree, Systems Engineering • 2007 — 2014

chupi

chupi is a python backend API for a dummy catalog of drinks, exemplifying how to run a production-ready modern application at zero cost, based on open source and freemium services.

Universidad Tecnologica Nacional - Facultad Regional Rosario

Assistant Professor • 2016 — 2019

Migrated a course from Visual FoxPro into Python, developing all the new study materials required and giving practical lessons to students.