About meh

About Ramón

I’ve been working in and around software engineering for 10+ years, and loving every minute of it.

What really drives me, however, is community. I’ve been actively working with children, refugees as well as software developers both new and experienced.

To me, a healthy community makes a healthy paradigm of software. Let me help you achieve that coveted AHA! moment.

Problem Solving Skill Areas

macOS Development

Xcode, Objective-C, Swift

Ruby

Rails, Sinatra, Rubymotion

Version Control

Git, Subversion

Mobile Development

iOS, Swift, Android, Kotlin, React Native

Elixir

Phoenix

Systems Admin

Heroku, Docker, Sentry, Travis CI, Nginx

Project Management

Scrum, agile

JavaScript

Node, React, Vue

Kudos

Ramon is a great engineer, very resourceful when it comes to dealing with new technologies (software & hardware) and an all around wonderful person to hang out with!

— Dražen Lučanin, developer, data analyst and the founder of Punk Rock Dev

I would put 5 stars for JS 😛

— Antonija Šimić, Frontend Developer

Practical Experience

Freelance Full Stack Web Engineer

Meet & Eat

https://meetandeat.takeaway.io/

Catering app and infrastructure

Incredible Bee

https://incrediblebee.com

Devops and website maintenance

S-Team

https://www.s-team.at/

Consulting for Noetutgut and Notrufnoe

Punk Rock Dev

https://punkrockdev.com/

Consulting for Zoomero and Craftstrom devops, full stack web engineering

Rails Girls Summer of Code

https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/

Consulting, devops, app maintenance and feature additions

October 2009 - Present

Applied clean code practices to existing web apps, simplifying the onboarding experience of first-time contributors.
Applied test-driven development techniques to increase stability.
Built full-fledged JSON APIs with self-made authentication, authorization as well as payment handling.
Applied frontend frameworks to existing backends.
Regular, security and feature-oriented dependency management, keeping up with development trends and removing unmaintained dependencies.
Performed code reviews for pull requests on Github, collaborating with fellow maintainers and giving feedback to first-time contributors.
Applied and maintained a readable, consistent git history using rebasing, merge commits, and other practices.
Devops tasks, including deploying continuous integration tools, staging, deployment tools, test suite running, linting, review apps, monitoring and/or Docker.
Implemented Agile practices, assisting in ticketing, organizing standups, kanban reviews.
Introduced optimizations to improve web performance.
Wrote and maintained codebase as well as API documentation.

Freelance macOS, Android and iOS App Developer

Renamer

https://renamer.com

macOS, RubyMotion

Archiver

https://archiverapp.com

macOS, Objective-C

Craftstrom

https://www.craftstrom.com

iOS, Android, React Native

Bloom Diagnostics

http://bloomdiagnostics

iOS, Swift

February 2011 - Present

Developed and deployed major upgrades to existing apps, increased sales.
Applied test-driven development techniques to ensure app stability.
Developed and maintained a streamlined command line toolchain for building, testing and code-signing apps, increasing productivity.
Prepared and maintained separate versions of apps for the Mac App Store in compliance with Sandbox rules.
Documented and fixed issues reported by users using Redmine.

Cofounder, Chief Technical Officer

MarketData.Cloud (Defunct)

https://marketdata.cloud

June 2016 - June 2018

Developed JSON market data API from the ground up.
Wrote and maintained user and developer documentation.
Wrote a business plan, SEO, market research, customer relations.
Customer support in English, Spanish and German.
Wrote press releases, resulting in increased web traffic.

Education

Formal Education

B.Sc. Software Engineering

Vienna University of Technology

October 2007 - Present

Lemmings Summer and Winter Batch

Lemmings.io

Summer 2016, Early 2018

Introduction to Machine Learning

Stanford University

January 2018

Modules included - Software engineering and project management, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, information security.
Seminar paper - The evolution of mapping tools and their implementations.
Bachelor thesis - Teaching kids to code - Bridging the gap between scientific research and practical experience.
Building Facebook Messenger Bots.
Product Design.
Building tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.

Self Study

Fundamentals - Refactoring (Beck, Fowler, 1999), UNIX in a nutshell (Robbins, 2005), Extreme Programming Explained (Beck, 1999), Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Feathers, 2004), Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (Metz, 2007).
Object Oriented Programming - Design Patterns (Gang of four, 1994).
Programming Languages - Programming Phoenix (Tate, McCord, Valim, 2016), Programming Elixir (Thomas, 2014), The Rust Programming Language (Nichols, Klabnik, 2018), Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner’s Guide (Lipovaca, 2011).

Volunteer Work

Leading Meetups - Vienna.rb, Ruby Habits, Vienna BEAMers, Women Techmakers Vienna, Google Developer Group Vienna, React Vienna.
Open Source Initiatives - Rails Girls Summer of Code, Where2Help.wien, Rails Girls, Global Diversity CFP Day, Women Techmakers.
Coaching and Mentorship - Rails Girls workshops, Lemmings.io hackathons, RustBridge, teaching children to code.
Conference Organizing - EuRuKo, IntoTech, Women Techmakers Vienna, DevFest Vienna

Ramón Huidobro

Apps with a dollop of sweetness