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Hello!

I'm Scotty! A Software Engineer based in Costa Rica with over 10 years of experience in software development and operations.

Skillful in DevOps technologies and tools such as Amazon Web Services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Team City, Jenkins, Octopus). Highly motivated individual with a drive for problem resolution and leading operational improvements through agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban). Currently part of the data services team at PayByPhone.

about

  • Born in Costa Rica.
  • Grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
  • Technology and science fiction are my interests.
  • Family, pizza, netflix, guitar.

skills

Agile, Scrum, Kanban
Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated Testing
DevOps, C#, .NET, SQL
HTML5, CSS, Javascript

work

PayByPhone Technologies Inc. — Data Engineer
June 2017 - Present
  • Member of the data services team.
  • Creating cloud infrastructure in AWS for reporting team services with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform).
  • Modifying existing cloud infrastructure in AWS through version control (Git) and deploying changes to dev, qa, staging and production environments.
  • Working on operational reporting services, including windows services (top shelf), async and synchronous services, and web UI's.

PayByPhone Technologies Inc. — Software Developer
March 2014 - June 2017
  • Member of the software maintenance team based in Costa Rica.
  • Updating legacy code to newer .NET frameworks and technologies.
  • Implementing a continuous integration deployment process for legacy apps by using CI/CD software such as Team City and Octopus.
  • Worked on identifying database and system bugs and deploying fixes and code improvements.

education

Licentiate Degree in Computer Engineering
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica.
2017 - 2019

Pérez Zeledón, San José, Costa Rica.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica.
2006 - 2009

Pérez Zeledón, San José, Costa Rica.