Sebastian
Durandeu
Senior Software Engineer
About Me
For 10+ years I have helped multiple Fortune 500 companies and startups build software solutions acting as full-stack developer, team lead and customer advocate. I have experience leading both on-site and distributed teams, making sure delivery goes according to plan and meets customer expectations.
Skills
The technologies and frameworks I have worked most with include:
- .NET Framework and the Microsoft Web Stack (C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, etc.)
- Cloud Platforms and Services (Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services)
- Web Standards (HTTP, REST, HTML5, etc.)
- Javascript and Node.js
- Hybrid mobile apps (Cordova, Ionic, etc.)
- Relational and NoSQL Databases (MS SQL Server and Analysis Services, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
- Continuous Integration and Delivery automation (Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Selenium, etc.)
My experience includes:
- Team leading (make sure everyone is doing what is best for the project)
- Agile project estimation and planning
- Business analysis (understand and anticipate customer needs)
- Code reviewing
- Performance evaluation and mentoring of developers
Experience
Feebris
Engineering Lead (London, UK)
At Feebris we build intuitive, mobile-based software, powered by AI, that empowers non-medical users to detect some of the most complex diseases, using the latest medical sensors. Our mission is to prevent hospitalisations and suffering from conditions that could have been prevented or treated at home.
Southworks
Principal Software Engineer (London, UK)
Leading three teams remotely (11 people) as Microsoft contractor for developing and maintaining one of Microsoft's core marketing sites. Technical guidance and code reviewing. Team's workload management. 1-on-1 meetings with developers for performance evaluation and mentoring.
Managed remotely a development team (5 people) to re-engineer a US sports company's statistics system and migrate it to the cloud (Microsoft Azure). Project design and planning. Main point of contact with the customer with regular on-site meetings for progress reporting.
Vinti
Lead Engineer (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Joined the co-founders as first employee to build and grow the payments platform. Full-stack engineer in charge of the Cordova/Ionic mobile app with a Node.js backend hosted in Amazon Web Services. Infrastructure design, maintenance and security audits. Also worked on product design, customer support and sales.
Southworks
Principal Software Engineer (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Member of the Delivery team, in charge of resource allocation, project forecasting and monitoring. Recruiting and performance reviews of developers. Support account managers with new opportunities (pre-sales).
- Technical lead for developing and maintaining one of Microsoft's core marketing and documentation sites using Microsoft Azure cloud services. Requirements include high availability and scalability, CDN and content caching, localization, among others. Project also included developing a documentation publishing and maintenance workflow using automated deployment infrastructure.
Lead Software Engineer (Redmond, US)
- 3 months on-site at Microsoft headquarters working side-by-side with in the Azure engineering team. Developed a continuous testing infrastructure to validate Azure partners' listings and integrations.
- Helped Microsoft internal teams deliver keynote demos highlighting the very latest in technology for the BUILD 2012 and 2013 annual conferences for developers. Provided support to presenters from the backstage.
Technical Writer/Software Engineer (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Developed technical guidance, toolkits and APIs for Microsoft Developer Experience (DX) Division to help the developer community adopt new Microsoft technologies and frameworks (e.g. hands-on labs for Microsoft Azure Training Kit, DinnerNow or OData API for Visual Studio Team Foundation Service).
- Helped a top pharmaceutical company develop a company-wide identity platform, based on claims-based identity and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
Side Projects
- Technical book reviewer for Packt Publishing: Azure Storage Essentials and Implementing Azure Solutions
- Personal blog in Spanish including articles on software development and university courses (outdated)
- Sentiment analysis in microblogging: a practical implementation. M. Cohen, P. Damiani, S. Durandeu, R. Navas, H. Merlino, XVII Argentinian Congress of Computer Science, 2011 (link)