Alejandro Cena

Experience

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  Southern Codes

  Feb 2007 - Apr 2008

  Web Developer
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  OLX

  Apr 2008 - Feb 2011

  Senior Developer - Core Team

  CORE is a team of 7 developers who are responsible for maintaining and improving the core application, over which runs a site with millions of pageviews a day, running to almost all countries and languages and also being a platform for development Vertical sites of the free classified category.Using: LAMP, Solr, Memcache, APC, Webservices, Scrum.

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  TeraCode

  Feb 2011 - Sept 2011

  Senior web Developer

  Working on the Search Engine project for www.easybib.com. Mi job is to maintain and improve the search engine of the site. We import data from different sources and process it using shell scripting on php. We use Gearman as a queue server, Solr as a Full text search engine. As good practices we use Unit Testing, Pair Review, Scrum and open source technologies under Linux Machines.Using: LAMP, Zend Framework, Doctrine, Sphinx, Memcache, Gearman, PHP Shell processing, Unit Testing, Scrum.

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  Dos Monos

  Sept 2011 - Mar 2012

  Tecnical Leader

  In charge of the development Team (3 developers).My main tasks are:- Keeping online the email marketing engine which sends 60M of emails a day. - Balancing and Building the schedule to the whole team.- Taking desitions about the architectural things.Using: LAMP, Python, Mysql, MongoDB (NoSql), PHP Shell Processing.

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  Infobae

  Mar 2012 - Jun 2013

  Software Architect

  In charge of mayor code re factors:- Implementing an agnostic storage layer abstraction and replication library.- Proposing and implementing a Vertical sites layer abstraction, to integrate sites outside the core into it, as a way to reuse and decrease the development team effort.Doing some organizational changes like:- Normalizing the way that development team works. (Environments, OS, Ticket)- Improving the deployment process, to decrease the effort invested.Using: LAMP, Mysql, Sphinx, PHP. Show less

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  CAETI

  Apr 2012 - May 2022

  Auxiliary Researcher

  Researching in robotics for the Physics Robotics Laboratory of CAETI (UAI).Member of the committee of researchers (UAI).Developing an arquitecture for Authonomous Robot, to perform a real time interaction in dinamical environments.Using: .NET, C#, XNA, Kinect, Electronics, Arduino, Python, NodeJs, IOT

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  DLA TV

  Jan 2014 - Sept 2015

  Software Architect

  To his Multimedia Broadcasting´s product "www.clarovideo.com"Using: C#, WPF, Silverlight, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Xbox 360, PHP.

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  Universidad Abierta Interamericana

  Apr 2014 - May 2022

  Auxiliar Docente

  Materia: Paradigmas Tecnológicos II Robótica

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  ItBAF

  Oct 2015 - May 2017

  Software Architect

  Me encuentro portando la plataforma a un enfoque orientado a Servicios (SOA) para permitir el escalamiento a toda la región, permitiendo integraciones con desarrolladores y múltiples mecanismos de pago.A cargo de la arquitectura de las aplicaciones y el desarrollo de estas para que sean armónicos con el ecosistema de servicios creado.Incluyendo Billings, servicio centralizado de autorización y autenticación (OAuth2) tanto de usuarios como de aplicaciones, esquemas de permisos para aplicaciones internas y externas.Usando: PHP, Symfony2, Silex, MySql, Redis, RabbitMq, Docker, OAuth2, Microservices, SOA Show less

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  Artear

  May 2017 - Nov 2018

  Software Architect
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  Naranja X

  Mar 2019 - Apr 2020

  Tech Lead
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  Bayport Financial Services

  Apr 2020 - May 2021

  Information Technology Manager for LATAM
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  Mercado Libre

  Jun 2021 - Feb 2023

  Information Technology Manager
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  Welin

  Jan 2022 - now

  Technology Expert / Partner
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  Startup de Pagos

  Feb 2023 - Nov 2023

  Chief Technology Officer
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  Tiendanube

  Apr 2024 - now

  Technical Manager