Gabriel R.

Gabriel R.

Fullstack React/Node.js developer

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United Kingdom, London

Gabriel is a software engineer, hacker, designer, and world explorer specialized in building products users love. He has been working professionally with Javascript, React.js, and Node.js for over 3 years. His deep drive to understand complex subjects and simplify them for others has motivated me to tutor in math and science, build an easy-to-use CMS, and help develop a global learning platform for children to learn English.

Skills

  • React
  • Node.js
  • CSS
  • Javascript
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Experience

English learning platform, United Kingdom, London

Software Engineer

March 2019 to November 2019

Stack:

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Swift
  • Oblective C

Responsibilities:

  • working on making the platform accessible in China by leveraging serverless and region-specific code to connect with China's first services (AWS China, WeChat Pay, Umeng);
  • migrating the Unity app with 600+ games into React Native for iOS and Android;
  • granting access to the entire JavaScript and React Native ecosystem;

Achievements:

  • discovered and implemented a way for non-engineers to make games using After Effects by repurposing it as a simple game engine that well-suited games for children;
  • tracked and analyzed in-app behavior patterns, providing deep insights for improving retention and the viral coefficient;
  • increased development speed 10-fold, and kept a solid game-making workflow;

Headless CMS for websites service, France, Paris

Software Engineer

March 2018 to March 2019

Stack:

  • React
  • PostCSS
  • Webpack
  • Scala

Responsibilities:

  • developing a full-stack solution to live preview by using a browser cookie to keep track of the version of documents requested;
  • creating a preview session on the server;
  • communicating the state of that session to a script on the user's website;

Achievements:

  • increased brand recognition and traffic by proposing and working on a GraphQL API that improves on the functionality of the current Predicate REST API
  • greatly improved user experience with a client-side script that enables live preview, A/B tests, and an edit button for CMS content on the webpage.

The International Corporation, Remote

Software Engineering Intern

May 2017 to August 2017

Stack:

  • Vue.js
  • D3.js
  • Java (Spring)
  • IBM Cloud

Responsibilities:

  • creating Mappr, an announcement system for floor-wide communication at IBM, as a hackathon project;

Achievements:

  • reduced the company's employee onboarding complexity by automating the largely pen-and-paper process of user ID creation.

Technology Commercialization Service, Remote

Lead UI Designer & Front-end Developer

September 2016 to May 2017

Stack:

  • JavaScript
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Turbolinks
  • Redis
  • Gulp
  • Sass

Responsibilities:

  • developing DMDventory, a platform enabling students to rent school technology for free;

Education

Bachelor's Degree, University of Connecticut

September 2014 to December 2017

Storrs, United States

GPA 3.85/4.

Concentration in Web Design & Development with additional Computer Science coursework and independent studies building full-stack web applications using JavaScript, React, Node.js, Django, Laravel, SQL, and other technologies.