ABOUT ME

WHO AM I?

Software Engineer, Application Developer and Information Technology enthusiast.

Over 7 years of experience working with Java and related technologies, designing and implementing multi-threaded, low-latency and high-performance enterprise mission critical systems. Good understanding of UX principles. Interested in projects that are open and/or in need of new technologies. Loves to gain knowledge.

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EXPERT IN

JAVA / SPRING / JEE

95%

HTML / CSS

80%

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

80%

INFRASTRUCTURE

50%

EDUCATION

2013-2015

UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES

Master of Science (M.Sc.) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE

Final Project: Enterprise Architecture proposal for PayU - Small and Medium Businesses

2006-2011

UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) SYSTEMS AND COMPUTING ENGINEERING

Final project: Deployment of virtual clusters of dynamic and scalable processing units over Amazon EC2 and S3.

2006-2011

UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Final Project: Design and implementation a Microgrid for academic purposes.

CERTIFICATIONS

2016

ORACLE

ORACLE CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE,
JAVA SE 8 PROGRAMMER

An Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer has demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented concepts, the Java programming language and general knowledge of Java platforms and technologies.

2016

JAVASPECIALIST.EU

EXTREME JAVA -
CONCURRENCY PERFORMANCE FOR JAVA 8 COURSE

EXPERIENCE

2018-PRESENT

AMAZON UK

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Software Development Engineer.

2015-2018

PAYU

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

Technical referent.

Part of the team that design and implement the new generation of payments processing platform, increasing the overall performance using the same infrastructure, maintaining backward compatibility and incorporating new technologies to the company.

Experience working with geographically distributed teams using SCRUM methodology.

Core backend engineer. Responsible of monitoring (correctness, performance and reliability), maintaining, optimizing and developing new functionalities to the business core system

2012-2015

PAYU

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Core backend engineer. Responsible of designing and implementing new functionalities to the business core technological platform (Payments processing platform), enabling operations in new countries and providing payment services to world class companies like Netflix, Uber and Facebook.

Main projects: Support for Brazilian and Argentinian financial systems, Merchant tools – Payment links, Offline stores support, Mobile payments, Multi-acquirer support.

Designed the internal quality coding standard that enforces the use of best practices for software development and the correct use of technologies and frameworks. This project improved by 300% the overall performance and reliability of the core system and reduced production defects or bugs by 80%.

Worked with SCRUM methodology.

2011-2012

SOFTONE S.A.S.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Developed backend solutions, web services and application integrations for various financial entities (Davivienda, Colfondos, Mundial de Seguros, Experian-Datacredito) using IBM Websphere Suite (Application Server, MQ, Portal/Content Manager) and IBM DB2.

2,500
PROJECTS COMPLETED
+20
HAPPY CLIENTS
102K
LINES OF CODE
63K
CUPS OF COFFEE

CONTACT ADDRESS

London, UK

contact@manuelvieda.com