Frank Carriedo

Background

About Frank Carriedo

As an individual contributor, I am a 10x engineer. As a manager, I keep teams unblocked and productive, working on what matters. Hire me if you need a: · CTO - I can take your company from idea to MVP to stable product to scalable architecture that supports your revenue generating business. · Software Development Leader - I can take an existing team or help creating a new one from scratch, including onsite and offshore workers, while acting as a link between the product and engineering workforces to ensure business objectives are met. · Software Solution Consultant - I can provide solutions to your company's specific needs, avoiding risks and problems that will cost your company a lot of time and money otherwise. Genuine interest in all the layers that compose any given system, from hardware to UX and business domain aspects. Mix of experience + passion makes me own my duties and ensures outstanding performance in the teams and systems I design / supervise. Acquired deep technical skills + natural soft skills: my passion is contagious and I can motivate my co-workers as much as I can direct them. · CTO and technical lead roles · (Acquired) startup experience (see positions) · Development of an Messaging API platform, globally awarded by the GSMA · Achieved World's first GSMA RCS accreditation for API product · Distributed systems and R&D duties · Real-time platforms: Websockets, Java, NodeJS (Socket.IO) · Microservices: J2EE (Spring Boot, Quarkus), Javascript (NodeJS) · Functional programming: Javascript, Scala · Opensource software: adapting and contributing to opensource libraries · Payment services integration: Stripe, EbanX, Paypal, PayStack, MobileMoney · Messaging as a platform, conversational services, chatbots · Web scrapping: Cheerio, Ghost, headless browsers · Web development: SPA with MeteorJS, Express, JQuery, MongoDB, CSS, landing pages with Carrd · Testing Java: JUnit, Mockito · Testing JS: Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Selenium (end to end) · Virtualization + DevOps + orchestration: VirtualBox, VMPlayer, Docker, Puppet, Chef · Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu) and Windows platforms. · High performance and performance testing Comfortable working with several technologies and learning new ones Excellent work attitude: highly independent or a good team player, just as the project requires: individual contributor roles only as a consultant (rated accordingly). Mention "The Dude" if you contact me, to know you got to this point reading. Thanks for not wasting either my time or yours:)