Armando Guereca's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Lead Platform Engineer (streamnation.com) at Milestone Project Inc. from October 2012 to June 2014 (1 year 9 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. Designing and building a RESTful API on Ruby on Rails supporting multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop). Direct responsibility designing and building core backend systems for media storage, access control, content conversion, content deduplication, content ingestion pipelines, content delivery, multi-layeredCache, payments (PayPal and credit cards) as well as monitoring and back-office operations. 365x24x7 on-call support for any hiccup of the platform Close collaboration with web and mobile teams providing technical mentorship on design and architecture to facilitate reliable integrations. Designing a search and video recommendation engine for Plizy (product before StreamNation ). NoSQL Data Architect / Software Engineering at Swaylo from June 2012 to September 2012 (4 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. Backend code on Node.js- Data repositories for the offline processing of billions of “likes” (using MySQL and MongoDB)- Analyze processes and optimize queries that compute the "Swaylo score" API and backend infrastructure to provide, authentication, authorization, security and account management and then Facebook acquired the company. Engineering Director at Cachinko LLC from March 2008 to May 2012 (4 years 3 months) in Houston, Tx. Built the development team from the ground up, with development centers on Monterrey (MX) and Mexico City (MX) Designing a solid, easy-scalable web platform that enabled the company to provide services to potentially millions of users and white-label to partner companies. Self-learned Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning theory and techniques to build a semantic job recommendation engine with content deduplication. Collaborated directly with the investors and sales on designing product roadmaps, participating in webinars, onsite demos, trade shows, etc. founder at Pegasus Information Technologies from May 2000 to May 2008 (8 years 1 month) in Mexico. Started as a high school side project to sell white box computers and eventually transformed it into a software consulting company specialized in enterprise software development with several employees and customers across the country, only organic growth, no angels, or investment money. (Though times)- Year-long consulting gig with Mexico's branch of GMAC Insurance- Built ERP for 2 different construction companies with modules for almost all departments. Fun fact: At some point gave maintenance to AS/400 mainframes and network, even offered web hosting and email services to some companies and small businesses before Gmail was a thing :). Lead Platform Engineer (streamnation.com) at Kwarter from July 2014 to February 2016 (1 year 8 months) in San Francisco Bay Area.Taming a high availability real time platform with a bunch of cool open source tools ;)

🎓 Education

Armando Guereca has a BS in Computer Science from Instituto Tecnologico de Durango. Armando started his Bachelors at Escuela Secundaria Tecnica #1 in 1992, where he learned deep learning and online specializations. He left Escuela Secundaria Tecnica #1 in 1995 to start his first job in the industrial drawing department at Escuela Industria de Mexico. There he worked for 2 years, in which he learned how to draw on computer software. After that, heworks as an Industrial Drawing Assistant at Escuela Segunda Tecnica, in 1995-2002. Armando also worked as a Data Scientist at Coursera from 2017 to 2018. Inovando in deep learning and data science, Armando founded his own company in 2019, called Armando Guereca Data Science, Inc.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Armando Guereca has experience in engineering, architecture, and operations leadership. He also has experience in natural language processing and machine learning. Guereca started his career at Milestone Project Inc., where he was a lead platform engineer. Guereca is currently a Lead Engineer at Streamnation.com, where he designs and builds a RESTful API. He has also worked with Swaylo, a company that specializes in offline processing of data. He also has work experience with GMAC Insurance in Mexico City, where he built an ERP for two different construction companies. Guereca also has experience with Twicer.tv, a video streaming platform.