DIEGO F. RIVEROS



Student of System and Computer Science with a minor in Psychology. Passionate about software development, software testing, and design, as well as team dynamics, team building, and teamwork. I am looking forward to joining a team where I can grow as a professional, and to be able to solve real world problems on a global scale.

EDUCATION


University of Los Andes   2013 - Present
  • Systems \& Computer Engineering, BS 4rd-year

  • Minor in Psychology Process

ACHIEVEMENTS

ATpos Architecture Presentation May 2019

ATpos is company in Colombia, which creates transactions of products online and offline

  • Selected as a result of being in the top 6 out of 18 teams

  • Presented our solution to the owner of ATpos

Professional Experience


Aplicaciones S.A   August 2019 - September 2019

My responsibilities in the company where:

  • Increase flexibility by pushing the image of the latest api to the AWS Elastic Container Registry

  • Maximize scalability and flexibility by using the AWS Elastic Kubernets Service to pull the image of the latest api of the AWS Elastic Container Registry

  • Document progress of all my user stories in JIRA

  • Reorganize sprint planning efforts, in particular backlog prioritization, shortening the time spent form one day to half day

Academic Experience


Thesis : " Design and implementation of Blockchain technologies for the health sector in Colombia"

Explored possible applications of blockchain in the health care industry and developed a prototype API

  • Collaborated with two companies, IBM and ProCibernética, in the application development

  • Worked in the implementation of the Blockchain web and the development of the API related to it

  • Presented the prototype at a Colombian Central Military Hospital event

Mobile Course Project

In a team of 4 members, we implemented an application in iOS and Android, to track the state of the buses at bus terminal

  • Programmed a method that calculates the gForce by using the gyroscope and accelerometer of a mobile phone, including an accident detection feature in firebase

  • Added a accident notification feature that contacts the company and the families via email

  • Used the enum pattern to customize mobile notifications per screen size

  • Designed an UI/UX of the application by using the gestalt psychology, leading to a more friendly user experience

  • Calculated the bus delay routes by using past and current gps locations

Technical Skills

  • Java

  • Git

  • GNU/Linux

  • MongoDB

  • AWS

  • Docker

  • Spring

  • JUnit

Research Projects


Planning Poker Research   September 2019 - Present

Investigate the cons and pros of using shapes and images instead of numbers for software development effort estimation. The project is conducted under the advice of professors Mario Linares and Dario Correal for the department of system and computer engineering, and Luis Cardenas for the department of psychology

Strengths

Strong Communications Skills
Team Building
Passion
Self-motivated
Responsible
Leadership Skills
Good Judgment Skills