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Andres Monge - Technical Lead / Solutions Architect

"Empowering teams to build innovative solutions with a focus on value and efficiency."

Profile

As a seasoned Technical Lead and Solutions Architect, I am passionate about Python development, AI, and general backend, which are my primary areas of focus and interest. I am committed to continuously learning and improving my skills in these domains to become an even more proficient Python developer.

With over 15 years of experience in the industry, I have honed my architectural design skills and demonstrated their transferability across various languages. My extensive background includes expertise in front-end development, DevOps, and other related fields, as detailed in my resume.

In recent years, I have deepened my expertise in Python and FastAPI, gaining valuable experience in machine ops AI. I have successfully led projects such as building a company's software to generate solar panel installation proposals, utilizing Python, MongoDB, and Docker images hosted in Digital Ocean. Additionally, I have developed AI-driven solutions, like a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that identifies landmarks, significantly improving a tourism company's ability to promote local attractions and provide personalized travel recommendations.

My leadership style is rooted in technical excellence, empathy, and a coach-mentor approach. As a hands-on leader, I thrive on solving complex problems and delivering value, always seeking opportunities to create impactful solutions in the realm of Python development, AI, and backend technologies.

Work History

Shifting to Python and AI

(freelance) Babio Power, California USA (remote) (2023)

  • Responsibilities: Built the company software to generate a solar panels installation proposal. The software communicates with third-party (airplane imagery), weather reports, and some user input to generate an accurate and instant plan for an installation of a solar panel grid in a customer's house. Managed the team to build the front-end application, and help in the back-end.
  • Accomplishments: Built the entirety of the system using Python, MongoDB, and Docker images (hosted in Digital Ocean). Mentored and guided two more developers; one in the front-end and the other in the backend.
  • Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, MongoDB, Docker.
  • Personal Growth: Deepened my expertise in Python and FastAPI, and gained valuable experience in machine ops AI.

(freelance) Delorean Group, Mexico City (remote) (2023)

  • Responsibilities: In a project for a family member working in a small tourism company through Delorean group, I successfully built a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that identified landmarks. This AI-driven solution significantly improved the company's ability to promote local attractions and provide personalized travel recommendations.

  • Accomplishments: Successfully developed a CNN model that accurately identified and classified various landmarks, enhancing the company's tourism offerings and customer engagement.

  • Technologies: Python, PyTorch, and Transformers.

  • Personal Growth: This project allowed me to apply my Python and AI skills in a real-world context, further deepening my expertise in these areas and demonstrating the practical value of AI in enhancing business operations.

Bonial, Berlin (remote) (2016-2017)

  • Responsibilities: Developed Micro-fronts using Polymer for the UI of an AI training system. Created an infinite undo/redo global interface and a hyper-fast UI tag autocomplete using local storage for optimization.
  • Accomplishments: Developed a tag component that was incredibly fast by using a double cache system and created a grid splitter directly into the AI tool, which accelerated by 300x the selection of sections.
  • Technologies: Polymer, AI.
  • Personal Growth: Gained valuable experience in AI and developed proficiency in Polymer.

Leadership - Tech Lead and Manager

Lavanda, United Kingdom (remote) (2022 - 2023)

  • Responsibilities: Served as a line manager for two squads. Coordinated with the CTO and CPO to design and develop features to alleviate customer churn.
  • Accomplishments: Successfully managed a team of 10 software engineers (front and back). Created an efficient (<100ms) algorithm to allocate randomized bookings with range and date constraints.
  • Technologies: Python / Ruby on Rails.
  • Personal Growth: Enhanced my skills in managing a team and developed proficiency in Python and Ruby on Rails.

Global Savings Group, Germany (remote) (2021 - 2022)

  • Responsibilities: Managed a team of 7 software engineers. Kept the legacy code and systems active and clean of critical bugs, while participating in the discovery and planning of a company-wide code refactoring.
  • Accomplishments: Designed and developed a web-crawler that saved the company 500€ weekly costs.
  • Technologies: JavaScript, python, HTML, (TS) React.
  • Personal Growth: Gained valuable experience in remote management and developed proficiency solutions architecture.

GFT / Santander Global Tech, Madrid, Spain (2018 - 2021)

  • Responsibilities: Served as a technical coordinator and solutions architect for development teams. Investigated new technologies and methodologies to accelerate delivery times and increase overall quality.
  • Accomplishments: Designed a solution to generate documentation and dependency hierarchy automatically. Proved increase of 120% in delivery time in two projects designing ATDD. Became the go-to person for any DevOps and pipeline enhancement in the project, and led two USA teams to perform twice as better by creating better tools and guiding the team into knowing and using such tools.
  • Technologies: Angular, JavaScript, Python scripting, bash, UML-Diagrams.
  • Personal Growth: Enhanced my skills in team coordination and solutions architecture.

Web Developer

s|ngular / BBVA, Madrid, Spain (2013 - 2017)

  • Responsibilities: Mentored developers to implement modules and components, instead of jQuery. Participated in the construction of the CD/CI with GULP and git-flow. Developed an Angular component hosting a ReactJS module.
  • Accomplishments: Successfully developed an Angular component hosting a ReactJS module.
  • Technologies: Angular, ReactJS, jQuery, GULP, git-flow.
  • Personal Growth: Enhanced my skills in mentoring and leading a team, and developed proficiency in Angular and ReactJS.

Adesis (GFT), Madrid, Spain (2012 - 2013)

  • Responsibilities: Led the creation of robust software for the insurance sector, developing architectural components using front-end skills and leading with backend skills. Developed a personal finance manager app using AngularJS and led a NodeJS (Sails) developer.
  • Accomplishments: Successfully developed a personal finance manager app and led a NodeJS developer.
  • Technologies: AngularJS, NodeJS (Sails).
  • Personal Growth: Gained valuable experience in front-end architecture and developed proficiency in AngularJS and NodeJS.

CBI Cambridge Business Initiatives, Madrid, Spain (2010 - 2012)

  • Responsibilities: Developed end-to-end modules using BackboneJS and PHP for an ad-hoc SAP-like system.
  • Accomplishments: Created a unique plugin for data import/export from XLS into SQL, parsing the data according to the system architecture and schemas.
  • Technologies: BackboneJS, PHP, WordPress.
  • Personal Growth: Enhanced my skills in client interaction and project management.

Freelance Web Developer, Madrid, Spain (2008 - 2013)

  • Responsibilities: Developed custom websites for international clients using open-source back-end frameworks and vanilla front-ends. Created ad-hoc themes and plugins to provide tailored tools for clients.
  • Accomplishments: Successfully delivered multiple websites including Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
  • Technologies: Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, OsCommerce, PHP.
  • Personal Growth: Gained valuable experience in client interaction and developed proficiency in various CMS and e-commerce platforms.

Open Source Projects

Andres Monge's Projects

aeempy icon aeempy

This repository hosts a collection of Python libraries and scripts related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other related fields.

aemonge icon aemonge

Config files for my GitHub profile.

agnoster-zsh-theme icon agnoster-zsh-theme

A ZSH theme designed to disclose information contextually, with a powerline aesthetic

alicia icon alicia

A CLI to download, create, modify, train, test, predict and compare an image classifiers.

chatgpt-cli icon chatgpt-cli

ChatGPT CLI is an advanced command-line interface for OpenAI's ChatGPT, offering streaming, query mode, and history tracking for seamless and context-aware conversations. Ideal for both users and developers, it provides advanced configuration and easy setup options to ensure a tailored conversational experience with the GPT model.

exit-code-by-console-log icon exit-code-by-console-log

Set the exit code return value from process to a none-zero error code when console.error is been called, and reset such if a console.log is used

green-tomato icon green-tomato

A sandbox and mock server that automatically records mocks by a reverse proxy. It can be used as a API cache

path-ify icon path-ify

Converts a neested object, into a single object with path as keys. It's aim is to aid using objects as queries for mongodb

pysolar icon pysolar

Pysolar is a collection of Python libraries for simulating the irradiation of any point on earth by the sun. It includes code for extremely precise ephemeris calculations.

swenv.nvim icon swenv.nvim

Tiny plugin to quickly switch python virtual environments from within neovim without restarting.

udacity icon udacity

AI Programming with Python Nanodegree

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