Alter Lagos
Software Developer at vWork
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAlter Lagos is a seasoned Software Developer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing Rails-based platforms, currently improving performance and integrations at vWork in Auckland. He has a track record of upgrading decade-old monoliths, boosting response times through caching and query optimization, and connecting platforms with accounting and CRM services like Xero, MYOB, HubSpot and QuickBooks. Comfortable across the stack, he blends Ruby/Rails expertise with Java, React/Redux frontends and search technologies such as Elasticsearch. His early career includes Java and sysadmin work—giving him an uncommon operational fluency that informs robust, test-driven development. Known for pragmatic integration work (including invoice-issuing gems and Mercado Libre API integrations), he brings attention to detail and a steady appetite for new technologies.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad del Bío Bío
Spanish, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (200)
stimulusjs10
svg10
command-line-tool10
ecosystem10
api10
turbo10
html10
reflection10
rails-api10
finance10
rails-app10
counter-cache10
hosts10
privacy10
administration10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
visfleet/cequel
Oct 2021 - Aug 2024
Ruby ORM for Cassandra with CQL3
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 10 months
cassandrasqlrubydatabasepostgresql
visfleet/xeroizer
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
accountingapiaccounting-systemxeroapi-library
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