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Erick Agrazal

Software Engineer

Geek, lover of innovation and everything related to generate new knowledge, and not only that, but share it with the community. Face problems with a smile and solve them as soon as possible. Excellent interpersonal relationships. Believer that when problems arise the team should focus on finding a solution, instead of blame someone.

Work Experiences

Intechideas International

Panamá, Panamá
Director of Engineering
January, 2020 - Present

As a Director of Software Engineering, I've been in charge of:

  • Creating a culture of knowledge tranfer between the leads and their team-members.
  • Proposing processes to make sure everybody at the company has a clear grow path.
  • Applying technical evaluations to lead candidates at the company.
  • Temporaly leading groups that does not have a primary lead.
  • Setting up a secure internal infrastructure, making sure the company meets any criteria required by the certifications that the company wants to pass.

Technological University of Panama

Panamá, Panamá
Associate Professor
March, 2016 - Present

As an Associate professor I've been teaching differents lectures, like the following:

  • Software development IX. The main objective of the course is to implement e-commerce using new technologies (Used Meteor JS as base for the projects).
  • Software development IV. The main objective of the course if to learn the basics of web development (Used NodeJS with Express as base for the projects).
  • Applied Programming II. The main objective of the course if to learn and use in a real world problem a compiled programming language (Used C and a Wi-Fi Module called ESP8266 to make a dictionary WiFi attack)

Balboa Developers

Panamá, Panamá
Lead Developer
April, 2018 - April, 2020

Lead developer for the dev-team at Balboa Developers. We mainly focus on building decentralized applications on top of ethereum network.

Technologies used:

  • Solidity
  • Ganache
  • Rinkeby
  • Remix
  • Oraclize
  • IPFS
  • Truffle
  • Git
  • Alexa
  • Twilio

AllSafe Solutions

Panamá, Panamá
Lead Developer
August, 2017 - March, 2018

Head of development for new projects that the company programmed for different customers in Panamá.

Technologies used:

  • Django (Python)
  • Postgres
  • Ubuntu
  • Docker
  • Docker-Compose
  • Git (Gitlab)
  • React-native

GoRead

Panamá, Panamá
Backend Software Developer
January, 2016 - August, 2017

Development of new features and maintaining the backend code of https://goread.com which is written mainly in Django/Python. I also handle deployment process of the staging servers which are base on Linux.

Technologies used:

  • Django (Python)
  • Django Rest Framework (Python)
  • HAML (Templating)
  • Postgres
  • Debian
  • Vagrant
  • Git (Gitlab)
  • Jenkins

General Technical Services, S.A.

Panamá, Panamá
Backend Software Developer
December, 2013 - July, 2015

Analyze, design, develop and maintain a backoffice (Software for the administration of a gas station) that connects to Verifone Equipment like Sapphire and Ruby extract the information of the sales and save them into a database. It is developed for some oil companies located on Central America.

Techonolies used:

  • Django (Python)
  • Django Rest Framework (Python)
  • Jade (Templating)
  • Postgres
  • Ubuntu
  • Gunicorn
  • Celery
  • Redis (Handle celery queues)
  • Git (Gitlab)

Door Ride

Panamá, Panamá
Co Founder & Lead Developer
December, 2014 - June, 2015

Co Founder of DoorRide. Startup winner of a contest organized by the Innovation Center of Panama and the U.S. Embassy of Panama, called "Ideas Jóvenes Panamá", in which participated more than 80 startups ideas from Panama.

DoorRide is a platform that aims to connect people or companies that want to make deliveries (Curriers companies, individuals, etc), with people that want to have a package delivered, in an easy and safe way.

The prize was to go to United States and participate in a program of the U.S. Department of State, called IVLP. The main objective of the program, was meet people from different areas of business, from technology and academic people to investors, that criticized our startup giving us from their perspective and expertise what were the weakness and the strengths of it.

After all the meetings, all the Co Founders decided to leave the project in stand by in order to make pivot the original idea, using all the feedback received.

International Visitors Leadership Program

New York, Boston (U.S.A)
Student
May, 2015

I was part of a program of coaching about entrepreneurship and startups, meeting with academic institutions and private business to receive feedback about our startup idea, DoorRide.

National Incomes Authority

Panamá, Panamá
Information Security Analyst
June, 2013 - November, 2013

Administration and firewall monitoring, updates of users and active directory policies, penetration testing, updates of the security policies.

Ximark Technologies

Panamá, Panamá
Internship
January, 2013 - April, 2013

Theoretical and Practical project called: "Reforzamiento de la infraestructura de red y estándares de seguridad de la información dentro de Ximark technologies"

Technological University of Panama

Panamá, Panamá
Laboratory Assistant
March, 2012 - December, 2012

In charge of the management of all the multimedia equipment of the Laboratories of the Computer Science Faculty of the Technological University of Panama.

Technological University of Panama

Panamá, Panamá
Trainer
February, 2011

Trainer of "Introduction to the information technology". It was a program from the Technological University of Panama to make old professors learn the basics of the Information Technologies. My duty was to train people on the basics of using Microsoft Windows, and Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook.

Technological University of Panama

Panamá, Panamá
Trainer
January, 2011 - February, 2011

Trainer of "Massive Training in the basics of Information Technologies for the people of Social Security". It was a program from the Social Security of Panama. My duty was to train people on the basics of using Microsoft Windows, and Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook.

Education

MSc Information Security

Technological University of Panama
2014 - 2016
The Master of Information security aims on the analysis, planning, implementation and administration of the secured information equipment, as well as organizing the policies and the procedures of the security related to the information technologies, so that can be implemented security strategies to protect the business assets and the information of the organization.

Computation and Information Engineering

Technological University of Panama
2009 - 2014
The Bachelor aims the analysis, planning, implementation and adminstration of the web and native development trying to focus on applied programming in fields like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Databases analysis and more. There was also a good base on physics, mathematics and chemistry.

High School Degree

Nuestra Señora de Lourdes High School
2007 - 2010
The degree was mainly focus on the bases of science, mathematics, social sciences, lirature, languages, but it also had the introductory level for software develepment, technical support and software administration.

Professional Skills

Top Skills

Python & Django

Advanced, 5 years
I've been working with django and python for the last 4 years, developing technologies from standalone application on top of django to API based application, automation processes with frameworks like fabric and queue handling as celery.

JavaScript

Medium, 2 years
Started as a hobbie, I've been now working with different libraries, frameworks and platforms based on JavaScript, such as Node JS, Express JS, Meteor JS, React JS, but mostly using Vanilla JS.

Linux

Advanced, 5 years
I've been working with Linux OS since 2009, when I got into the University. I've worked from a installing to maintaining different versions and applications of Linux, in the server, workstation or enduser side.

Other Skills

HTML5 CSS3 Java C C++ Git
Docker Docker-Compose Bash PHP Firewalls IPS IDS

Recommendations

Portfolio

Sap Reporter

Project that grabs data from a SAP repository, organize it and represent some analysis using tables of graphics. It also let the end users make online payments to the site owner.

Medical Provider

Project that let insurances companies handle all the information of the claims of the doctors that looked after the pacients, so the insurance company can pay back the doctors.

Reparaciones

This is a project focused on tech support companies, letting them track the item on all the process inside the tech support queue.

Django, PostgreSQL, Javascript

Control EDS

This is a project that helps to keep the information of contact of service stations all together

Django, REST, PostgreSQL, Javascript

Event Tracker and Crawler

This is a project helps people send invitation to an event, and track the assitance or not to it and makes reports before the event. It also grabs photos from instagram for the event by a given hashtag.

Django, REST, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Crawler

Personal portfolio

This is a project for my personal portfolio.

Django, Javascript

AskMe

This is a project that lets the audience on a presentation ask questions to the expositor, the audience also can vote for their favorite questions and the questions will be ordered by the most popular, so the the expositor can answer just the most popoular questions.

Meteor JS, Javascript, MongoDB

RPC Feed

This is a project that grabs the audio files from a site and organize them as a RSS Feed.

Django, Javascript, PostgreSQL

Get in Touch

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I'm always looking to help companies achieve their development needs.

The following, are some of the technologies I can give you a hand:

  • Back-end development with Django/Python or Express JS
  • Front-end development with Vanilla JS or JQuery
  • React-Native development
  • Security improvements on python web applications
  • Configuration of Linux deployment servers

Drop me a line at [email protected] or call me at +507-6788-8134