Raúl Ramos

Experience

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  Freelance

  Sept 2003 - Oct 2008

  Web developer

  Web developer in some freelance projects using Linux Apache and PHP

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  Costa Brava Homes

  Oct 2003 - Oct 2008

  Founder

  Web developer. Basic sysadmin. SEO and PPC campaings. Product management. Seller.

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  Global Yacht Charters

  Jan 2004 - Aug 2006

  IT Manager

  Web developer. Basic sysadmin. SEO.

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  Rumbo Sailing.net

  Jan 2006 - Oct 2008

  Founder

  Launched and grew one of the firsts an online platforms for yacht bookings, developing business strategy and a user-friendly website.Designed, developed, and launched a fully functional online yacht booking platform from scratch, overseeing all technical aspects.Managed partnerships with yacht owners and operators, ensuring a diverse fleet and strong client relationships.Led digital marketing efforts, including SEO, PPC, and social media, increasing traffic and bookings.Oversaw daily operations and customer service, ensuring smooth and efficient processes. Show less

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  Factorsim

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2011

  Web Developer and Project Manager

  My job involved all the lifecycle of a project. From gathering requirements on client site to prepare quotations and developing either backend (usually a open sourced based moodle or wordpress solutions or a tailor made using symfony) and frontend (CSS and javascript).

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  Atrapalo.com

  Dec 2011 - Dec 2017

  Technical product manager involves developer manager role and tech lead role as well. Team size has ranged with time from 5 to 10 members (currently 6 members). Our current responsibilities involve:- Users- Marketing channels (main one being emailing)- Reviews- Gift Voucher product.- App development- Search engine- Home page- Wholesite improvementsMain achievements developed in our team include:- Migrating from a legacy system to unit tested, domain driven design inspired hexagonal architecture.- Integrating with mailing suppliers like Experian (cheetahmail) or Selligent.- Integrating with external api's like Google Adwords, Google analytics or Criteo.- Spliting the monolith towards microservice oriented architecture.- Developing community pages (social network inspired) implemented using event driven CQRS architecture.- Developing a reviews service as a microservice.- Developing a hybrid Ionic 2 App using angular2.- Developing a search system based on elasticsearch leveraging domain event bus and workers to keep the index up to date (using rabbitmq with topic exchange).- WPO improvements whole site.- Evolving wholesite frontend architecture. Migrating from non-modular javascript architechture to requirejs architecture. Work in progress migrating to ES2016 modules using webpack.- Improving development environments with docker compose.- Creating a continuous delivery pipeline with jenkins. Keywords: Agile, Scrum, Scrummaster, SOLID, Hexagonal Architecture, Domain Driven Design, Unit Testing, Microservices Architecture,WPO, Messaging, Event Driven, CQRS, Docker, Vagrant, Jenkins, PHP 7, Symfony 3, Mysql, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Redis, Requirejs, Backbone, Marionette, Ionic 2, Angular 2 Show less

  • Technical Product Manager

    Jul 2013 - Dec 2017

  • Web Developer

    Dec 2011 - Jun 2013
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  Mailsuite (antes Mailtrack)

  Dec 2017 - now

  CTO & Founder

  Founder Experience and Achievements* Scaled a High-Performance Team: Grew the team from 5 to 20+ professionals, including engineering, quality assurance, and data analytics, fostering a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment.* Implemented Agile Excellence: Established Scrum processes within a DevOps culture, promoting efficiency and continuous improvement.* Engineered Scalable Systems: Led the architecture of AWS-based systems with asynchronous processes, ensuring reliability and scalability through robust queue orchestration.* Led Frontline Innovation: Directed the development of a TypeScript-based browser extension, leveraging RxJS for high-performance, responsive features.* Achieved Technical Milestones: Guided the company in adopting modern tools and practices, balancing rapid development with maintainability.Key Achievements:* ARR Growth: Drove a 6x increase in ARR, acquiring over 100,000 customers through strategic product improvements and operational efficiency.* Transformed Engineering Culture: Shifted the engineering team to a product-driven, outcome-focused mindset, aligning technical efforts with business goals for maximum impact.* Tech-Driven Organization: Built a company where over two-thirds of roles are technical, driving product development in a tech-first approach, ensuring technology is at the core of decision-making.* Transformed QA: Transitioned from manual QA to fully automated testing, embedding quality assurance as a team-wide responsibility, increasing velocity and reducing errors.* Continuous Deployment: Shifted from bi-weekly releases to continuous deployment, allowing for multiple updates per day, faster feature delivery, and quick bug fixes.* AI-Driven Solutions: Internally championed the adoption of AI to optimize internal processes, enhancing decision-making and organizational efficiency.* Established a DevOps culture with infrastructure-as-code using tools like Packer and Ansible to streamline deployments. Show less