Gerardo Caracas
Boise,ID
Summary
Software engineering professional with deep expertise in developing robust, scalable applications. Strong focus on team collaboration, driving projects to successful completion, and adapting to evolving requirements. Proficient in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Values delivering high-quality results and fostering productive work environment.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Cradlepoint by Ericsson
09.2021 - 11.2024
- Developed features that improved device management for enterprise clients by enhancing product functionality through collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Participated in agile development processes to optimize project delivery, leading to successful and efficient deployments
- Authored innovative AI projects, including research on human body movement detection and emotion inference, and prediction of firmware upgrade times for routers and modems using machine learning models
- Regularly reviewed peers code contributions, offering constructive feedback to enhance overall product quality.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design innovative software solutions.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
Senior Software Engineer
Kount an Equifax Company
02.2017 - 09.2021
- Developed several features in the fraud prevention and detection R&D team, enhancing the company's capabilities in fraud detection
- Worked on data warehouses and big data projects, building data lakes and pipelines in Snowflake, and supported data scientists in handling large datasets
- Contributed to AI team by developing and training neural network models for fraud prevention using distributed computing frameworks (Spark ML), and automating AI model pipelines
- Architected a new microservices design using Golang, which significantly improved system scalability and performance
Senior Software Engineer
Macy's
09.2014 - 02.2017
- Developed mobile web applications focusing on core framework and UI development, providing fast and reliable user experience
- Designed and implemented several features in search component, enhancing interaction with various servers through REST calls
- Led innovation project to calculate end user's connection speed in real time, improving user experience for mobile services even on low bandwidth connections
- Utilized skills in RESTful web services, JavaScript, Backbone, Handlebars, Node.js, UI design, and performance optimization
R&D Specialist Firmware Engineer
HP
05.1999 - 09.2014
- Designed and coded features for scanner image processing firmware, interacting with scanner sensors and various image correction algorithms
- Developed a Genetic Algorithm library to accelerate new product turn-on, reducing the process time from 2 weeks to ~2 hours and improving accuracy
- Worked on firmware for paper handling devices and file system modules for HP's proprietary NAS cluster, contributing to reliable and efficient firmware solutions
- Developed expertise in Matlab, embedded systems, ASIC interactions, C, C++, and C# programming
Education
M.D. - Computer Science
Boise State University
BoiseBachelor Degree - Cybernetic Engineering and Computer Science
Universidad La Salle
Mexico City, Mexico05.1997
Skills
- Project management experience
- AI/ML
- Computer Vision
- AWS
- Snowflake, PostgreSQL
- Spark ML
- Web application development
- API development experience
Accomplishments
- As part of a grad. school research team, I was able to be a co-author if a scientific, peer reviewed paper in the area of AI (NLP.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Work Availability
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Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Cradlepoint by Ericsson
09.2021 - 11.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Kount an Equifax Company
02.2017 - 09.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Macy's
09.2014 - 02.2017
R&D Specialist Firmware Engineer
HP
05.1999 - 09.2014
M.D. - Computer Science
Boise State University
Bachelor Degree - Cybernetic Engineering and Computer Science
Universidad La Salle
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