Roel Ramirez's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Lead, Web Development @ LinkedIn Stepped into a new role where I balanced being a manager for the front-end developers on my team along with keeping my coding chops up to parHelped lead the effort to redesign the user interface and code architecture of the registration and onboarding experience on LinkedIn on desktop and mobile webWorked with external teams on how to run experiments, suggestions for site speed improvements, considerations as we ramp in international markets and how to adhere to accessibility standards as the registration and onboarding experience transformed from a product to a platformContributed to the redesign of the homepage by building the address book import and endorsements promos in the feedTook a 3-day Ember Training course with Erik Bryn in March 2015 Created a new guest homepage to make sure sign-in and sign-ups as well as phone/captcha challenges worked accordingly in all languages and subdomainsMet with product, engineering and design counterparts regularly to discuss timelines, resource allocations and team cadenceParticipated in sprint planning sessions to reflect on what was done in the previous sprint and to make sure bandwidth was allocated accordingly throughout the team for the next sprint From February 2014 to March 2016 (2 years 2 months) Mountain View, CASenior Web Developer @ LinkedIn Moved to the Onboarding team where we focused on helping new and novice members find value in LinkedIn by making connections, finding topics they are interested in and building a brand for themselves Part of a team that owned a product that served as a recommendation system to show modules based on business rules and relevant models that powered different flows throughout LinkedIn Volunteered to help the Employee Experience team build internal sites that included stories of random acts of kindness, a photo library capturing the culture of LinkedIn and even a company wide desk decorating competition From November 2013 to February 2014 (4 months) Mountain View, CAWeb Developer @ LinkedIn Collaborated with engineers to sustain and revamp internal tools that included A/B testing framework and page view dashboardServed as an additional resource for the Groups team to help with SEO optimizations, bug fixes and i18n supportHelped out with e-mail development for profile endorsements and notifications prior to the initial ramp to publicSubmitted a hackday project that provided a question/answer platform where users can specify what topics they are interested inOne of the initial contributors to Venus which is as an open source JS testing framework that normalizes output from unit tests that are run in Mocha, Jasmine and QUnitTransferred to the Homepage team to work on right rail modules that included a user's recent activity (e.g., profile views, group discussions, search) as well as a data visualization tool to show the reach of a user's share to 1st/2nd/3rd degree connectionsParticipant of the Incubator program where our team's proposal was accepted to create a brand new platform for employees to iterate on ideas and hackday projectsJune 2013 Hackday winner as part of a team that built a tool to help employees put themselves in a whitelist on their web browser locally to view features that may not be fully ramped on both testing and production environmentsGave a tech talk on "JavaScript 101" as part of a series targeted to employees who wanted to learn more about JavaScript development at LinkedIn From August 2011 to November 2013 (2 years 4 months) Mountain View, CASoftware Engineer @ Tweetswirl Co-founded a start-up that allows users to follow their favorite TV shows, movies and celebrities via TwitterSustained development and support for stack built on Pylons, Mako and SQLAlchemy, helped architect database schema and helped with code pushes to development environments (dev, alpha, beta and production)Used Mercurial as source control repository and Trac for setting project tasks, goals and milestonesMade it to the last round of Y Combinator interviews for Summer 2010 From May 2009 to August 2011 (2 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ eBay Worked with product mangers, designers and researchers to build cross-browser compliant prototypes of zoom feature on view item page before release to productionCollaborated with cart team on several iterations of cart layer and landing page through design sessions, prototype reviews and research sessionsHelped establish a new design system by rebuilding the main use cases and flows of the website for user testingEvangelized the effort behind the Integrated Experience prototype where users were able to use a stash tray to save items and a preview layer to view item detailsContributed to the Dressing Room project where users can preview, collect and compare items which won 1st place at the Fall 2008 Skunkworks competitionRecipient of the Global Product Management Award in May 2011 From December 2007 to August 2011 (3 years 9 months) Campbell, CASoftware Engineer @ AOL Developed user interface that allows users to automate builds and install deliverables onto testing environmentWrote shell scripts that would update, validate and retrieve build requests from AOL Configuration Management repository Created a servlet that exposed statistics of the FTP and transcoding queues used to upload videos to the AOL Video Uploads applicationParticipated in daily scrum calls and sprint planning sessions Coordinated with development team in India, QA team in Arizona and operations team in Virginia From August 2007 to December 2007 (5 months) Mountain View, CaSoftware Engineer @ Infosys Completed a six-month training program in India that focused on the foundations of computer programming and J2EE architectureParticipated in projects based on the software development life cycle with teams composed of both on-shore and off-shore personnelWorked in an eight-person team to create a banking application that supported transactions, fund transfers, and bank inquiries From July 2006 to August 2007 (1 year 2 months) Fremont, CAStaff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Mountain View, California, United StatesSenior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jumped back into a individual contributor role to focus more on code architecture, engineering specs and front-end developmentPart of on-call rotation to help monitor product metrics, analyze real-time sensors and shepherd builds to staging/production environmentsWorked with Google Chrome team to integrate Smart Lock on sign-in and sign-up pages for LinkedIn which was featured at Google I/O 2016Lead an effort to get support from consumer and infrastructure teams to build a landing experience for new and novice users that would help them update their profile information, make connections and follow topics they may be interested inCollaborated with product, marketing and engineering to launch a campaign to celebrate LinkedIn's 500 Million members milestoneWrote unit tests for JavaScript functionality, integration tests for page rendering and acceptance tests for user interaction on LinkedIn's flagship desktop and mobile web application From March 2016 to September 2020 (4 years 7 months) Mountain View, Ca