This certification gave me a solid foundational knowledge of GraphQL and the Apollo tool suite to design a schema, run an Apollo Server, and perform queries with Apollo Client on the frontend. It was very fun to work with the GraphQL team and I learned a lot about the tool suite and how to use it to build a real world application.

Graph Developer - Associate

By achieving the Software Product Management Specialization, I managed to master the knowledge and demonstrate the application of Agile practices within software processes, requirements, planning, and improvement to create better software products. The final Capstone course assessed the acquired knowledge and skills in a practical scenario involving product team interactions, which simulated the development of a software product from its inception to the final delivery.

Software Product Management Specialist

The Software Development Lifecycle Specialization covers the process and practices used for software development. By completing this specialization, I improved my skills to build high-quality and secure software using SDLC methodologies such as Agile, Lean, and Traditional/Waterfall as well as to analyze a software development team's SDLC methodology and make recommendations for improvements. It also helped me to get better and comparing and contrasting software development methodologies with respect to environmental, organizational, and product constraints.

Software Development Lifecycle Specialist

This is a title I'm very proud of having acquired since it allows me to learn to develop software and web solutions from its very idea and inception stage, all the way to the entire development lifecycle, and its final delivery as a functional software product. I became capable of developing information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. I'm also in charge of determining operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.

Technologist in Analysis and Development of Information Systems

This Specialization gave me a strong foundation for working comfortably and productively in open-source development communities. It also allowed me to acquire a good understanding of the Linux environment as well as methods and tools required to successfully use it, and get familiar and experienced with Git, the distributed version control system.

Open-Source Software Development, Linux, and Git Specialist

To earn the Google IT Support Professional Certificate I completed five courses, developed by Google, including hands-on, practice-based assessments that prepared me for entry-level roles in IT support. This Specialization made me competent in foundational skills, including Troubleshooting and Customer Service, Networking, Operating Systems, System Administration, and Security.

Google IT Support Specialist

With this technical title I acquired the skills to operate computers and other communications equipment to perform data entry work as part of a larger data processing system. In addition to inputting, organizing, and cataloging data, I am also able to perform quality control checks, identifying job problems, and ensuring that job orders are completed according to schedule.

Data Processing Technician

I have worked for over 2 years as the Lead/Supervisor of a team of UX Designers. During these years, I worked helping to reassure the company's product design vision and principles by researching, conceiving, testing, designing and prototyping user experience for digital products, ensuring that these products flow logically from one step to the next, while creating high-fidelity prototypes and user interfaces that meet both users' and business' needs. I was also in charge of evaluating the consistency and usability of the final work of the team memebers by reviewing ease of use, efficiency in performing tasks, and the look and feel of the product.

Lead UX Designer

As a UX Design Consultant, I was assigned with many different tasks. From translating concepts and business requirements into user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, to reviewing and maintaining documents, prototypes and information architecture diagrams, while optimizing their interface designs. I was also in charge of identifying UX/UI problems and ideate creative ways to solve them as well as communicating scenarios, interaction models, screen layouts, design ideas, and prototypes to developers and stakeholders.

UX Design Consultant

During this role I was in charge of reviewing design prototypes to build test plans along with use case scenarios and strategic actions to ensure testing meets release requirements and deadlines. I was also tasked with analyzing the validity, functionality and feasibility of requirements and use cases, and reporting/tracking defects, errors, and bugs discovered during testing to mitigate risks and prevent software problems, while executing test cases according to project requirements, ensuring that all tested work is performed in accordance with defined standards and procedures, and collaborating with developers and designers to ensure quality and consistency throughout the testing lifecycle.

Lead Quality Assurance Tester

As a Technical Support Rep, I was responsible for technical service support to internal and external clients including: fielding and resolving technical service issues with end customers, providing troubleshooting support and identifying solutions to support to employees, customers and distributors. In addition, I also provided assistance with communication of product manuals and other technical service tools.

Technical Support Representative

I worked for almost a year as a Customer Service Rep of Greyhound. During this job, I helped customers understand the product and answered questions about their orders and reservations, which many times made me represent a role in sales. I also provided customer assistance with complaints and questions.

Customer Service Representative

I worked for a couple of years as Assitant Accountant. Part of my job included preparing financial documents such as invoices, bills, and accounts payable and receivable, completing financial reports on a regular basis, and providing information to the finance team.

Assistant Accountant

I have a solid understanding of ReactJS and how it works as well as React Hooks. I'm proficient with Next.js since I've built a few web apps and websites with it, and I'm also good at Gatsby.js due to my understanding of React. I also have some fundamental familiarity with Vue.js.

React, Next.js, Vue.js, Gatsby

As a JS developer, I have a strong understanding of the language, its quirks and workarounds, and a good knowledge of async request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX as well as browser rendering behavior and performance. All of this, allows me to implement the frontend logic that represents the visual elements of a website by developing highly usable features, building reusable code and libraries, ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs, and optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability. I also have intermediate knowledge of Swift and Python, and have experience with the UIKit and SwiftUI frameworks.

JavaScript, Swift, Python

By using CSS-in-JS solutions, I have the ability to not only style components with JavaScript but also tackle some CSS existing limitations, such as the lack of dynamic functionality, scoping, and portability when using them.

Styled Components, Emotion, Stitches

I'm a big fan of CSS preprocessors — especially of sass, because these scripting languages allow me to extend the default capabilities of CSS. This enables me to use logic in my CSS code which, ultimately, makes it easy to automate repetitive tasks, reduce the number of errors and code bloat, create reusable code snippets, and ensure backward compatibility.

Sass, Scss, Stylus

Although I have enough experience with vanilla CSS to create beautiful, responsive, and modern CSS solutions, thanks to the CSS frameworks, I also now have a better, faster, and more effective way to build responsive websites and web applications. Working with these tools, I can get a basic structure, which includes grid, interactive UI patterns, web typography, tooltips, buttons, form elements, icons, etc. This structure helps me to start quickly and efficiently when designing a website or web application.

TailwindCSS, Bootstrap

Thanks to the different PaaS solutions available today, as a software developer I've gained experience creating and managing runtime environments for developing, testing, and managing applications. These cloud-based platforms allow me to deploy applications, from simple to sophisticated, without needing all the related infrastructure (servers, databases, operating systems, development tools, etc).

vercel, Heroku, Netlify

I have experience with a few headless CMSes offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) today. With these tools I am able to both have an interface for easily managing content (as an editor), while getting/querying APIs to build applications (as a developer), making it simpler and faster to store, edit and publish content.

Strapi, Sanity, Contentful, Keystone.js

With modern tools such as Apollo GraphQL and Hasura, I've learned to deliver a faster frontend development by simplifying data fetching and management code by getting the data in the shape I need. I can use GraphQL on top of an existing infrastructure: be it REST, existing databases, or anything else, thus I am able organize data into a clean, unified API and query it all at once.

GraphQL, Hasura, REST APIs

I have created and organized small-to-medium size non-relational databases in MongoDB and Firebase. I have also implemented authentication functionality to some web applications via Firebase/Firestore solutions.

MongoDB, Firebase, PostgreSQL

I have a solid understanding and experience with Git, the distributed version control system. I also possess experience with GitHub — for storing and maintaining source code as well as a well-defined workflow for management of source code repositories.

Git, GitHub

Working as a UX Designer for some years I've acquired an expert level at modern design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, etc., for designing and prototyping clean User Interfaces, high-fidelity prototypes, UX Flows, and many other Information Architecture-related diagrams.

Sketch, Figma, Framer, Adobe XD

Having studied Agile methodologies, I have the abilities to use good judgment and skills to develop a project management approach that is suitable for planning and managing the effort required to achieve a project goals within the designated project constraints. This allows me to use a high level of knowledge in blending traditional project management principles and practices with an Agile development approach in the right proportions to fit large, complex, mission-critical, enterprise-level projects and with the appropriate level of planning and provide the right balance of agility and predictability.

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