Alvin Crespo

Skills Utilized

• ruby
• ruby on rails
• javascript
• aptible
• aws
• postgresql

Story

TBD

Role and Responsibilities

• 2021 - Present
  • Alert Notifications
    • Created the UI for user alert notifications
    • Enhanced UI with componentization for reuse on organization management pages
    • Implemented live SMS and Email previewing of messages
    • Extended specs for role based feature reliability
• 2020 - 2021
  • Timeline V2
    • Simplified UI implementation with standard in-house built UI components
    • Increased confidence in timeline data with extended specs
  • Document Upload
    • Enabled clients to manage patient documents through an uploader
    • Implmented live virus document scanning using CLAMAV
    • Created reusable components for implemenation on timeline and encounters pages
  • Patient Commenting
    • Integrated a patient comment system for clients
    • Added editing, archiving and ownership of comments

Accomplishments

• TBD

Skills Utilized

• react
• node
• ruby on rails
• graphql
• now
• emberjs
• elixir
• hiring
• team development
• mentorship
• business development

Story

After being in the product world for some time, I wanted to explore the consulting industry with folks I knew in the greater boston area. It was a natural fit to join Echobind since I was working in the same technologies. the role would give me the exposure I wanted in healthcare and fintech - so I decided to join the team as their first hire.

After 2.5 years of working with the team at Echobind, I was promoted in january 2019 as engineering team lead. My promotion was based on exemplary experience around taking ownership on projects, establishing a good rapport with existing clients and ensuring we focused on building the right features for a product. These implicit responsibilities combined with my passion for mentorship and collaboration made it a great fit to redefine my role to better provide Echobind with the appropriate services needed.

Role and Responsibilities

• Work closely with managing partners to define requirements and scope projects
• Ensure quality code and standards were followed on each project
• Develop and architect various frontend solutions using emberjs and react
• Maintain existing projects in rails and elixir
• Hands-on technical leader to 5 software engineers
• Mentor reports in all aspects of software engineering
• Collaborate w/ product management and managing partners to define customer needs, and to identify, define and scope solutions
• Lead engineering team in delivering customer value incrementally

Accomplishments

• Improve the rendering time of various applications by 5 - 10x
• Created two-way messaging system for healthcare client
• Upgraded ember for 2 of our exisiting clients
• Attended and represented Echobind at two industry conferences
• Established consistent weekly 1 hour 1:1 with all direct reports
• Created the technical internship program, with 2 engineers hired as associate engineers full-time
• Brought in 3 new clients (1 Enterprise level client and 2 startups)
• Helped improve client relationships on 2 established clients, delivering projects under budjet and on time

Skills Utilized

• emberjs
• ruby on rails
• team development
• event sponsorship
• mentorship
• training

Story

I had started in the agency world and was tired of it - I wanted to work on a product. During my search I stumbled upon a recruiter who was hiring for a new office being built in Boston for an ed-tech company - McGraw-Hill Education. This struck me immeidately since I always wanted to be a part of improving education for everyone. The hiring manager and I immediately connected. After a successful initial pairing session I received and offer and joined the new office to help build out the new engineering team!

Why did I leave?

My project was shut down after 2 years. The company shifted to data analytics using technologies I was just not interested in. I did stay to try it out - but ultimately it left me bored and i wasn't producing the quality of software I wanted to build. So I made the decision to leave due to the shift in company priorities.

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop and build the engineering team in the boston office
• Continue the research and development of educational collaborative software
• Collaborate with vendors to develop needed libraries
• Participate and represent McGraw-hill education at leading tech conferences
• Provide consultation on acquired strategical partnerships

Accomplishments

• Hired a team of 13 software engineers
• Sponsored McGraw-hill education as diamond sponsors (funded 10k to event)
• Acquired vendor for the research and development of an analytics platform