Jose Ramon Aleman B.

Sr. Software Engineer

📱 (123) 456-7890 · 📬 [email protected] · 🧳 jraleman.com

ℹ️ About

I’m Jose Ramon Aleman, a 🇵🇦/🇺🇸 software engineer. My areas of expertise include frontend development, ui/ux, design, cloud infrastructure, and some embedded systems and low level coding. Thinking in a logical and clear way has helped me during my academic and professional career, by being a problem-solver and someone who can be relied on. 👍

👨‍💻 Experience

Senior Software Engineer

opus1io Opus1.io Feb 2024 - Apr 2024 Contractor - (Remote) Palo Alto, California (3 months)

Codebase Maintenance: Oversee and conduct regular maintenance of the existing codebase to ensure optimal performance and stability. Address bugs, vulnerabilities, and issues.

Refactoring React Components: Assess and refactor existing React components to improve efficiency, readability, and reusability. Ensure that components align with modern React best practices, such as functional components and hooks.

Feature Development: Develop and integrate new features, particularly within form functionalities. Enhance user interface and experience by adding user-requested features and improving form interactions.

API Integration and Updates: Update existing APIs and integrate new APIs as required by the project needs. Ensure that all integrations are secure, efficient, and scalable.

Collaboration and Reporting: Work closely with the product management and development teams to align project goals and timelines. Provide regular updates and progress reports to stakeholders.

Documentation: Document code changes, refactorings, and new implementations thoroughly to assist future development efforts and ensure continuity.

Adaptability to Project Needs: Remain flexible to take on additional responsibilities or shifts in focus as project priorities evolve over the contract period.

Technical Leadership and Guidance: Provide technical leadership and guidance to other team members, helping to resolve complex problems and promoting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Founder | A.I. Engineer

raisga Raisga May 2023 - Present Business Owner - Atlanta, Georgia (1 year)

Coming up with innovative business ideas and validating their potential through research and testing.

Overseeing the creation of the company’s products or services and ensuring they meet customer needs and market demands.

Creating and managing a budget for the technology infrastructure, including software, hardware, and personnel costs.

Creating a roadmap for technology infrastructure that aligns with the company’s business goals and objectives.

Leading the development and integration of advanced AI technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, to enhance product offerings and create new market opportunities.

Implementing ethical AI guidelines and practices, ensuring that all AI deployments comply with legal standards and ethical considerations, focusing on transparency, fairness, and accountability in AI applications.

Evaluating the performance and impact of AI systems, using metrics and KPIs to assess their value addition, user satisfaction, and return on investment.

Creating and developing machine learning models or neural networks that can process and analyze large datasets to make predictions or solve problems.

Managing and preprocessing large datasets to ensure the data is suitable for use in AI models. This includes cleaning, normalizing, and segmenting data to improve model accuracy and efficiency.

Developing and implementing algorithms that drive AI systems, ensuring they can perform tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, or more complex decision-making processes.

Optimizing AI systems for better accuracy and efficiency. This involves adjusting algorithms and tuning hyperparameters to maximize the performance of AI models.

Deploying AI models into production environments, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and secure. This also includes setting up the necessary infrastructure for running AI models in real-time environments.

Staying Updated with AI Advancements: Keeping up with the latest developments in AI research and technologies to incorporate cutting-edge solutions into existing and future projects.

Documentation and Reporting: Maintaining detailed documentation of AI systems and providing comprehensive reports on their performance, challenges, and business impact.

Frontend Software Engineer

Allurion May 2021 - Feb 2023 Full-time - (Remote) Boston, Massachusetts (2 years)

Led the development, maintenance, and ongoing enhancement of the Allurion Insights web application utilizing Gatsby, focusing on scalable and maintainable code practices.

Implemented robust state management solutions using Redux and React Hooks to streamline functionality and improve user interface responsiveness.

Developed a video consultation system using Twilio-Video SDK, incorporating features such as real-time call history retrieval to enhance user engagement and service reliability.

Engineered a high-performance messaging service with Twilio-Conversations SDK, achieving message transmission speeds between 100-500ms, significantly enhancing communication efficiency.

Spearheaded the integration of multilingual support for over 12 languages, including RTL scripts like Arabic, significantly improving the application’s global usability.

Utilized TypeScript development, enforced code quality with ESLint, and leveraged advanced EMACS features to maintain high standards in code health.

Created comprehensive style guides and development documentation, and led troubleshooting initiatives, which increased development speed and reduced error rates.

Optimized web application performance under diverse load conditions, enhancing page load speeds and database interaction efficiency, thereby improving user experience.

Collaborated with UX designers to refine application design, conducting user testing sessions that resulted in higher user satisfaction rates.

Enhanced application accessibility, adhering to WCAG and ARIA standards, thus broadening market reach and ensuring compliance with legal accessibility standards.

Ensured cross-browser compatibility, leading efforts to maintain consistent functionality across multiple platforms and devices, thereby reducing user friction.

Kept abreast of industry trends and technologies, applying cutting-edge solutions to leverage strategic advantages for the organization, fostering innovation and competitive edge.

Cloud Software Engineer

axiad Axiad Mar 2020 - May 2021 Full-time - Santa Clara, California (1 year)

Experience with authentication techniques (Touch/Face ID) and encryption of sensitive data using AES encryption.

Successfully carried out application vulnerability assessments and implemented security solutions.

Involved in designing UI/UX strategies, requirements, converting findings into UI designs.

Implemented client-side validations using JavaScript, and range of use with different DOM Events.

Developed client-side search bars, filters, dropdown menus, toggles, modals, and others.

Incorporated push notifications to keep the user informed of authentication prompts.

Experience with Java language using Jetty and the Spring Framework.

Worked with Continuous integration using Jenkins.

Implemented AWS solutions using E2C, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-scaling groups.

Configured Chef Cookbooks and wrote recipes in Ruby to install and configure the infrastructure across environments and automated the process using Python Script.

Knowledge in Virtualization technologies (VirtualBox), creating virtual machines and provisioning environments.

Used JIRA to keep track of bugs to reduce downtime, increase productivity, and communication.

Worked on accessibility related development using Aria standards.

Co-Founder & CTO

EasyWorking Mar 2019 – Feb 2021 Self-employed - San Francisco Bay Area (2 years)

Involved in Scrum planning and sprint reviews in Agile environment.

Planning and participating in business requirement for UI feasibility.

Created policies, procedures, strategic and technology plans, and concept of operations for the startup.

Expertise in implementing the MVC architecture in backend applications, Node.js along with Express JS.

Used Vue.js to power a sophisticated Single-Page Application.

Responsible for creating RESTFUL Web Services to serve data to the front-end application in JSON format.

Experience using Docker Compose, Kubernetes, for orchestrating and deploying services related to the containers.

Container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker hub.

Frontend Software Engineer

Opus1.io Jul 2019 – Feb 2020 Full-time - Palo Alto, California, (8 months)

Implemented stable React.js components and containers, and stand-alone, helper functions for multiple pages.

Experience in working with GraphQL queries, use Apollo GraphQL library.

Building isomorphic applications using React.js and Redux with GraphQL on server-side.

Added dynamic functionality by creating, and maintaining Redux’s action creators dispatchers.

Worked with JEST framework to write unit tests, and Selenium Webdriver to write end-to-end (E2E) tests.

Configured Webpack to execute linters, magnifiers, pre/post-processors, tests, transpires, etc. based on build script.

Lead Software Engineer

vemidoc Vemidoc Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 Contract - Palo Alto, California (2 years)

Completed codebase conversion to React Native with feature parity.

Recruited, trained and provided mentorship to team members in technical areas and monitored their performance.

Defined the strategy of how the project would be implemented (documentation, technology, etc).

Redesigned UI/UX to improve the usage of the mobile application.

Implemented an asynchronous wrapper for API calls for POST, PUT, DELETE and GET methods using isomorphic fetch library.

Integrated native phone calling, and developed the incoming and outgoing call screens for the video chat between health care providers and users.

Responsible for design and development of various react-native components such as tab bars, autocomplete address field, image picker, date picker, sign-in/out features, profile management, social media integration, and navigation using react-router.

Implementation of push notifications to notify doctors of updates on appointments.

Founder and Enterprise Architect

Scarlet Bytes Apr 2016 – Mar 2019 Self-employed - Panama City, Panama (3 years, 3 months)

Developed custom web application and client-driven solutions.

Expertise in all phases of application development, planning, diagrams, database design, user interfaces, versioning, costs, implementation and deployment, accomplish to regulations, maintenance.

Led architecture planning and solution development linking technology with business and mission areas.

Designed the complete architecture, from the ground up, according to clients’ needs.

Defined technical strategy and roadmap.

Created business vision, strategy, policy, and partnership with external and internal stakeholders.

Extensively work with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and many other design applications.

Mobile Application Developer

Courious Sep 2017 – Mar 2018 Internship - Fremont, California (8 months)

Designed and developed an all-in-one tool to assist delivery guys.

Took initiative in learning react native and went on to successfully develop various features under minimal supervision.

Improved general responsiveness in app, and loading time.

Developed multiple functionalities (adding orders, setting routes, and tracking mileage) within the application.

Worked on menu/logout functionality.

Teacher Assistant

universidad latina Latin University of Panama Jun 2015 – Sep 2015 Teacher Assistant - Panama City, Panama (4 months)

Robotics programming, design and fabrication of production fixtures.

Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on electrical and mechanical equipment.

Downstream interfacing for specialty work cells to maximize machine utilization with personnel safety as a first.

Wrote programs for new robot installation of 3 & 6 axis robots

Terminated in-devices into Programmable Logic Control (PLC), programed in-devices for remote operations, and tested in-devices for well emergency shut-downs.

Electrician Assistant

Electricidad Total Jan 2011 – Jun 2011 Full-time - Panama City, Panama (6 months)

Assisted with the installation of electrical systems.

Electrical wiring of cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets. Interpretation of electrical plans, including residential and commercial.

Working knowledge of job site safety as well as ability to complete a company specific safety orientation.

Understanding of schematic diagrams, blueprints and other specifications required for the installation of electrical cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets.