Andrés Cárdenas
Lead Developer at Verndale
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrés Cárdenas is a versatile Lead Developer with 11 years of full-stack experience building and maintaining web platforms for clients ranging from e-commerce brands to large research organizations like CERN. He blends backend, frontend, and DevOps skills to ship reliable services used by global research teams and multinational clients, and has been nicknamed a "Swiss Army Knife" for his adaptability. At CERN he managed critical services and contributed to the CMS offline software by improving upload/conditions tooling to be more robust and dependency-light. Now based in Barcelona, he combines hands-on technical leadership with quick ramp-up on new technologies, turning complex requirements into pragmatic, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of British ColumbiaEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
argument-parsing9
database-api8
databases8
database8
experiment7
cer7
cms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cms-sw/cmssw
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
CMS Offline Software
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrés contributed significantly to the CMS offline software project by developing and improving the upload conditions script. Their work involved modifying the script to handle parameters more effectively and enhance output clarity. Furthermore, they refactored and updated the script to remove a dependency on the requests module, and they focused on improvements to the client output.
cmshepcerncms-experimentc-plus-plus
Dres90/Code-Snippets
Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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