Wolfgang Kling

Experience

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  Sincronia Software

  Feb 2002 - Jul 2009

  Co-founder - CTO

  Responsible for the definition of architecture and components reuse policies for the company software projects. Also responsible of anticipating, detecting and solving the problems resulting of the interaction between the different parts of the systems.Responsible also in some projects for ensuring the meeting of deadlines by coordinating developers and testers groups.Achieved Goals:Successfully conception and delivery of the following projects:- Information system for Compartel Project (Colombian Social Telecommunications Programme). The Compartel Programme’s aim is to generalize the access to the telecommunications services, pretending to achieve the coverage of all the country with these services. (Php Sympohny technology)- Information system of streets and public space infrastructure invertory and deterioration simulation for Medellin city (J2EE and ESRI technologies).- Information system of streets and public space infrastructure invertory and deterioration simulation for Cali city (J2EE).-Information system of streets, public space infrastructure and bridges and deterioration simulation for Bogota city (J2EE and Oracle technologies). Show less

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  Electronic Data Systems (EDS) now part of Hewlett-Packard

  Sept 2002 - Jan 2007

  Developer and System Analyst

  - Lead Designer CINTRA project (Air Transportation Framework) eOps Subsystem. - Mexico DF- Business Analyst for the Micro Fiscal Control module in the Contraloría General de la República Modernization Project - Colombia- Business Analyst, Designer and developer of Citizenship Participation module in the Contraloría General de la República Modernization Project - ColombiaAchieved Goals:- Successfully requirements gathering for the three projects.- Successfully implementation of the Micro Fiscal Control and Citizenship Participation module. Show less

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  Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería

  Jul 2004 - Dec 2005

  Lecturer

  Object Oriented Development

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  Ecole des Mines de Nantes - France

  Aug 2009 - Jan 2012

  R&D Engineer

  Responsible for proposing and developing a platform and Domain Specific Language (DSL) for handling large amounts of models efficiently. The work is made in the context of Galaxy ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) which adresses the problematics regarding to Model Driven Collaborative Environments and scalability. The project is made in consortium with Airbus, AKKA, IRIT, LIP6 and SOFTEAM. Responsable for metamodelization and mappings in Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) project for Webratio, Italy. IFML RFP issued for standarization in OMG http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/11-12-06 Achieved Goals:- Article publication in international conference on Software and Language Engineering (SLE2011). Title: MoScript: A DSL for querying and manipulating model repositories.- MoScript language implementation http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoScript- Article publication: Automatizing the Evaluation of Model Matching Systems in the International Workshop on Matching and Meaning 2010 Leicester, United Kingdom, March 31 - April 1, 2010 Show less

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  Www.tienetienda.com

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2014

  Co-founder at www.guitarrasybaterias.com

  CTO / COO

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  WebRatio

  Feb 2012 - Sept 2012

  Model Driven Engineering Consultant - Milan, Italy

  Coauthoring the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) OMG standard specification.Metamodelization of IFML and graphical editor development.IFML has been adopted by OMG http://www.omg.org/spec/IFML/ on March 2013.

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  Alcaldia de Bogotá Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente

  Oct 2012 - Dec 2014

  Software Architect Consultant

  In charge of defining the Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente software architecture and its integration with other district entities.

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  Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito

  Jan 2013 - Jul 2014

  Lecturer

  Software development processes

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  Recaudo Bogotá S.A.S

  Apr 2014 - Jul 2020

  R&D Director

  Recaudo Bogotá is a private body responsible for the transport fare collection, and fleet management system in Bogotá city (SITP).I'm in charge of leading several projects such as:• Develop and deploy APIs for integrating the fare collection system with low-cost POS devices and ATMs running on different technologies and OS (ARMs, Android tablets, PCs) for card top-up and validation.• Hybrid Card Project, whose purpose is to create a new transport card with hybrid (bank and transport) functionality. This work is being done in alliance with Master Card and involves almost all Colombian Banks. http://youtu.be/4DY_pmDmAng• In general, projects aiming to improve service, user experience, lower company costs and get new incomes. Show less

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  Vettica Pay S.A.S

  Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

  Chief Technology Officer

  Leadership of the creation and subsequent technical leadership of the spin-off Vettica Pay S.A.S whose aim was to build a Transportation as a Service (TaaS) ecosystem around Recaudo Bogotá to provide services for Booking Taxis, Booking Parking Lots, Fare Collection Systems, Fare Collection POS devices, Fleet Management and Transport Optimization services, and Integration Services with the Financial Sector

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  Smart Taxi SAS

  Aug 2020 - Feb 2021

  Interim Chief Technology Officer

  - Technical leading of the company, optimizing the cloud infrastructure costs, upgrading platforms to newer languages versions, applying security patches. - Restructuring of the IT team, improvement of the app users' experience, establishing a better synergy between the IT and customer support area. Prevent critical downtime.

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  Mercado Libre

  Jun 2021 - Mar 2024

  Software Development Technical Leader

  Technical Leadership of the development process and operation of highly scalable technological solutions based on microservices for the logistics business unit Mercado Envíos within teams across Latin America.- Led the implementation of the Inventory Placement project, which aimed at providing distribution centers the ability to optimally split inventory across various locations for future shipments. As a result, the first distribution center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was put into place.- Led the technical improvement and evolution of the transfer Multiwarehouse applications which orchestrate several business processes (inbound, outbound, fiscal and auditing) in order to transfer goods between warehouses.- Led the successful implementation of the services of notifications, operational planning of resources and yard management. Show less

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  Globant

  Mar 2024 - now

  Technical Manager