Sebastian
Zapata Mardini

Experience

• Zillow Group Inc - StreetEasy

  Software Development Engineer / New York, USA.
  November 2019 - Currently

  Zillow Group, Inc. owns and operates a portfolio of real estate and home related brands on mobile and Web. The Company's brands focus on all stages of the home lifecycle: renting, buying, selling and financing.

  Responsibilities: Part of the team who developes and mantains tools the company provide to Real Estate industry professionals, consumers and users in NYC. Our main responsibility is to provide the best possible experience to home buyers and renters when they search for a new place to live.

  Tech stack: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, React.js, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Resque, Docker.

  Zillow Group Inc - StreetEasy

• Nuts.com

  Ruby On Rails Developer / Jersey City, USA.
  July 2018 - September 2019

  Nuts.com sells 3000+ high-quality and expertly-sourced nuts, dried fruit, chocolate, pantry staples, tough-to-find ingredients and more. We source the best and go deeper into the supply chain to make food that’s better-tasting and better for you.

  Responsibilities: Maintain a warehouse management system that ships about 1 million packages yearly from 4 distribution centers across the United States.

  Tech stack: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, MySQL, Resque, Haml, Bootstrap, Docker, AWS.

  nuts.com

• Cabify

  Senior Backend Developer / Madrid, España.
  April 2017 - Marzo 2018

  International transportation network company connecting the passengers with private premium vehicles through web and mobile applications.

  Responsibilities: Contributing to the core developing and finance team while using distributed systems, microservices architecture and languages such as Ruby, Golang and Elixir.

  Tech stack: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Elixir, Go, CouchDB, Sidekiq, Docker, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js.

  cabify.com/es

• Nominapp

  Full Stack Software Engineer / Medellin, Colombia.
  July 2016 - April 2017

  Nominapp decreases by 10x the time companies spend processing employees' payment. The app successfully acquired thousands of users in Colombia during the 1st year, processing $2M USD/month in payroll.

  Responsibilities: Product Development (Ruby) from scratch.

  Tech stack: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, Sidekiq, Postgress, HTML 5, CSS 3, Bootstrap, Heroku.

  www.nominapp.com

• Kaizen Devs

  Full Stack Software Engineer / Medellin, Colombia.
  May 2015 - Jun 2017

  Software development outsourcing company focused on building digital products aiming at transforming, prototyping and developing MVPs in Colombia.

  Responsibilities: Executed different software projects using Rails and JavaScript.

  Tech stack: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Sidekiq, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Postgress, Heroku.

  www.kaizendevs.com

• Make It Real Camp

  Mentor / Medellin, Colombia.
  Jan 2015 - April 2017

  Make It Real is a education startup that offers a bootcamp for learning software development skills.

  Responsibilities: Leader and mentor for each version of Make It Real Full Stack WEB Developer Bootcamp which took place in Medellin.

  Tech stack: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS 3, Git, GitHub, MySQL, Postgress.

  makeitreal.camp

Education

One of my core strengths is sizing and understanding the newest trends within the software market. For this reason, I took part of different learning experiences with the purpose of increasing my own skills and mentoring students willing to gain software development knowledge

• Make It Real Camp - Elite

  Computer science intensive bootcamp.
  Graduated: 2018 - June

  I took part in an intensive 12-week full-time program where I developed my expertise in data structures, algorithms, basics of computer architecture, containerization tools, system design and architechture, databases and distributed systems.

• University Of Antioquia

  Electronic Engineering Bachelor.
  Graduated: 2016 - September

  Graduated the Electronic Engineer career with the purpose of further developing my software and hardware competencies and to develop projects meant to have a positive contribution to the world.

• Make It Real Camp

  WEB development intensive bootcamp.
  Graduated: 2015 - January

  I took part in an intensive 12-week full-time program where I developed my expertise in Ruby On Rails, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, MySQL, Postgres and GitHub. As a matter of fact, I also learnt patterns like responsive design, testing techniques and deploying different services such as Heroku and Amazon Web services.

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