Summary
Andrés V is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading web teams across backend, frontend, QA and mobile stacks, currently shaping Payroll & Invoicing systems at Oyster in the Greater Hamburg Area. He combines deep Ruby on Rails expertise and pragmatic TDD/BDD practices with hands-on frontend skills (HTML/CSS/JS/Angular) to deliver reliable, high-load billing and subscription platforms. A proven team leader and technical interviewer, he specializes in extracting the best from distributed onshore/offshore teams while integrating product, budget and time constraints to ship MVPs and full applications. Andrés is passionate about knowledge exchange—advocating pair programming, XP and Scrum—and has run training initiatives to grow developer talent. He brings a QA-informed mindset to foresee risks and reduce defects, and outside work he channels curiosity into travel and cultural learning that informs his collaborative leadership style.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero de Sistemas Engineers, Ingeniero de Sistemas Engineers at Universidad del Norte
Spanish, English, German, French