Rodrigo López

Senior Python Developer at Globant. (October 2018 - present)

Developed backend features on a Django-based project for a collectibles trading platform, being a crucial part on the design of their story-style user-specific feeds. Led a team of four python developers.

Worked on a single-developer project using Django on Lambda, taking care of development, code quality, automations, testing, deployment on AWS, and methodology. In constant direct communication with the Product Owner and stakeholders, the project required a fast pace and reliable highly-tested codebase.

Worked on higly available systems relying on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB.

Developed RPAs using Selenium and reverse-engineering third party APIs.

Worked on one of the leading streaming platforms, on a microservice-oriented architecture for a vital part of the system using terraform, FastAPI, pytest, and Docker.

Interviewed and evaluated candidates for Python backend developer positions.

Mentored a coworker.

Software Engineer at Sophilabs. (September 2013 - October 2018)

As a full stack web developer I participated in the development process of several web applications from the ground up, worked on a web application based on social data and focus group research with millions of users in the United States, an application for real world distributed advertising across the globe, a Q&A plattform for students and professionals, and many more. Some of my tasks involved project bootstrapping, prototyping, application design, backend systems using mainly PostgreSQL and Django, REST APIs using Django Rest Framework, front-end design and implementation using HTML, javascript and Sass, extensive unit and integration testing, deployment, maintenance scripts and cron tasks, incremental backups to Amazon S3.