Alton Bell Smythe

Hi! 👋

I'm Alton Bell Smythe

Staff Software Engineer


Degree in Computer Science and Fullstack Web developer based on Buenos Aires.

Resume

  About me

I'm a Full Stack Web Developer. I have experience working in teams and in multidisciplinary projects with a strong leadership and planning skills.

I'm a lover of new technologies and I consider myself self-taught. Established reputation as a problem-solver, team leader, software architect, and agile practitioner. Generally, my decisions are data driven, I always try to think strategically to provide long-term vision and translating business problems into effective technical solutions.

I'm really lucky to dedicate myself to do what makes me happy, programming is both my job and a hobby. I'm a strong believer that trust, values, teamwork and a great communication are the keys to achieve great results.

I'm Always looking for the next challenge, learning, trying new things and looking to improve my skills and maturing further my proficiency.

  Work Experience

Mural

Staff Software Engineer and Team Architect April 2021 - Present

My main task is to unblock anybody on my team. Always trying to share knowledge and help them to improve their skills. I enjoy looking for performance spots, database/query issues, and love learning! Always trying to spread the knowledge, fomenting good practices at the team especially in code reviews and pair programming. Also, working closely with Product, DevOps, Security, and other teams, to develop together effective technical solutions.

Senior Full Stack Engineer April 2019 - April 2021

I work as a Full Stack Engineer mainly focus on the development of features to provide management capabilities. We use ReactJS in the front-end and Express with NodeJS, MongoDB and Redis at the back-end, both using Typescript, testing with Cucumber and everything working together with Docker

Globant

Web UI Developer August 2018 - April 2019

I worked with ReactJS and Redux in the development of complex tools using SCRUM. Testing with Jest and continuous deployment/integration tools like Jenkins.

LogosCorp

Web Developer November 2017 - August 2018

I worked with Laravel in the development of custom websites and APIs, I also developep with ReactJS for web and React Native for mobile, in both cases using SCRUM with Jira software.

Nueva Esparta University

Head Developer September 2017 - November 2017

I led the systems area of ​​the Nueva Esparta University constituted by 6 developers assigning and planning the corresponding tasks to carry out the requirements of the users in a successful way and implement the GitFlow workflow

Nueva Esparta University

Junior Developer May 2015 - September 2017

I worked in the web system for students and staff of the Nueva Esparta University developing in PHP with ZendFramework using Bootstrap and jQuery, additionally my degree work was the realization of a mobile app in Android for the Nueva Esparta University, it was developed in AngularJS with Ionic using material design and the API was made with Lumen (Laravel).

  Education

Computer Science

Nueva Esparta Univeristy - Graduation May 2018

Computer degree, taken in my native country Venezuela

  Certifications

Asincronismo en Javascript

Acámica - January 2019 - Present

Advanced React and GraphQL

Wes Bos - October 2018 - Present

Fundamentos de ECMAScript 6

Acámica - October 2018 - Present

Introducción a React

Acámica - October 2018 - Present

Node.js, el comienzo

Acámica - October 2018 - Present

Programación Funcional

Acámica - October 2018 - Present

Prototipos y clases en JavaScript

Acámica - October 2018 - Present

Intro to Git

Udemy - May 2018 - Present

Start Kali Linux, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing

Udemy - May 2018 - Present

  Languages

Spanish

Native or bilingual proficiency

English

Professional working proficiency

French

Limited working proficiency

  • DELF A1

  • DELF A2

  • DELF B1

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