Ricardo Barrera
Senior Software Engineer at University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Barrera is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of professional experience building web and enterprise systems across the US and Mexico, currently at UCSF in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends backend expertise—from ETL and reporting automation in banking to Ruby on Rails e-commerce and CMS work—with a practical, delivery-oriented mindset honed since starting his career at 18. Ricardo has repeatedly reduced development and operational friction (for example, creating ETL templates that cut development time by ~85% and desktop schedulers to validate data pipelines). He enjoys mentoring and knowledge sharing, and approaches problems with curiosity that extends beyond tech into photography, video editing, skateboarding and guitar. Comfortable across databases, integrations and full-stack web development, he brings both hands-on coding ability and a knack for process improvements to long-lived systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
TSU en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación Área Sistemas Informáticos, Sistemas, TSU en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación Área Sistemas Informáticos, Sistemas at Universidad Tecnológica de Izúcar de Matamoros
English, Spanish
Github Skills (52)
rails10
ruby9
rails-gem9
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
html9
activerecord9
migrate8
rails-api8
json7
migration7
schema-migrations7
querying7
activemodel7
serializer6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rbarrera87/aprendiendocodigo.com
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:8 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
HeHStudy/surveyor
Jun 2014 - Jul 2020
A Rails gem that lets you code surveys, questionnaires, quizzes, etc... and add them to your app.
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsquestionnairesrubysurveys
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