Angel Balcarcel

Summary

Strong software delivery and leadership skills with an emphasis on continuous improvement, rapid feedback, and systems thinking. My experience has revolved around custom application development including API design, mobile development, and configuring web systems for scalability using AWS infrastructure.

Proficient: Ruby, Javascript, Go

Competent: .NET

Open Source

Long term open source contributor. I co-maintained a project called Parallels which was an open source tool for collecting digital media from around the web and fluidly visualizing, remixing and organizing the data on a virtual canvas.

Tech: Javascript, Meteor, Electron, Neo4j

Work Experience

Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe

2015 - Present (Remote)

Responsible for full-stack development building APIs, desktop components, and web applications in a microservice architecture primarily using Go, Ruby and frontend JS frameworks for the Adobe Fonts web service.

Tech: Ruby, Javascript, Go, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Redis, AWS

Lead Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks

2012 - 2015

As a consultant, I worked as technical lead on several projects that included new application development and legacy application rejuvenation. My role spanned full-stack implementations as well as providing technical direction, team management and advising business leaders on the best tools for the job.

Tech: Ruby, Angular, ReactJS, iOS, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Redis, ActiveMQ

Senior Ruby Engineer at Mobile Defense

2011 - 2012 (Cleveland, OH USA)

Responsible for full-stack development using Ruby on Rails and the client-side JS framework Backbone.

Tech: Ruby, BackboneJS

Software Engineer at Rosetta

2010 - 2011 (Cleveland, OH USA)

Worked as a software engineer in the Microsoft Solutions Center at Rosetta, an interactive marketing agency. My focus was on .NET technologies including Azure cloud computing, .NET MVC architecture and ORM tools such as Entity Framework and Linq to SQL.

Tech: .NET, Ruby

Software Engineer at PNC Financial Services

2007 - 2010 (Cleveland, OH USA)

Developed internal software business applications focused on productivity enhancements.

Tech: .NET

Education

Baldwin Wallace University

MBA, Business


Kent State University

BA, Computer Information Systems

Studies focused on application development, IT project management, technical planning, and business case analyses. Elective courses focused on software development and application design.