Raul Villares
What do I bring to the table?
- Business value focused mindset:I try to think of outcomes not of outputs, and I ask myself "what value does this add?" to everything I do.
- Used to wear many hats:My experience as a team manager and technical coach has extend my skill set beyond technical ones.
- Team player, inclined to do glue work:I try to leave my ego in the drawer, and think about what is best for the team/company.
- Broad experience with Test-Driven Development:Several years using it in real projects, and teaching other people how to do it.
- Expertise in object oriented design and good practices:I have also solid knowledge of Refactoring, Behaviour-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design and Clean Architechture.
Employment History
Development of a scalable and simple API that allows any company, big or small, to send and receive instant payments. A business bank account you can programmatically use in real-time.
- Ruby
- Rails
- API Design
- Startup
I help software teams to learn the key technics, skills and mindset to succeed in agile environments.
- TDD
- Design Principles
- Continuous delivery
- Pair / Mob programming
- Refactoring
- Sustainable pace
In addition to my IC role, now I'm in charge of coordinating the development team: an hybrid of engineering manager, product manager and tech lead.
- Software development
- Vision and technical strategy
- Project management
- Productivity and team's health
- Recruitment
- Mentorizing new team members
- Coordination with business management
Development of telecommunications systems for small and medium-sized operators.
- Extreme Programming
- Continuous integration
- Distributed systems
- Self-managed team
- Lean Thinking
Side projects
Comunidad CODE
CODE stands for Charlas Online de Desarrollo en Español (Online Software Talks in Spanish).
TDD From Scratch to the Sky (or almost)
Workshop in PyConEs 2018
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Software development discussion board. Based on Discourse.
3's a crowd!
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