Summary
Ricardo Vargas is a Front End Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and building web and desktop applications, currently focused on front-end work at NPM US. He has a strong track record delivering reusable, production-grade UI components and private npm packages, and has implemented real-time systems with SignalR and Azure Service Bus. Comfortable across the full stack, Ricardo has built RESTful APIs with .NET, integrated search and caching solutions like Elasticsearch and Redis, and prototyped complete applications from scratch using TypeScript and frameworks such as Aurelia and React. His career includes mission-driven projects—from a cancer-monitoring system deployed in Central America to performance improvements for customer-facing financial and media platforms—showing both technical breadth and user-focused impact. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he blends teaching experience and hands-on mentoring with a practical emphasis on specification gathering, QA, and reusable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Nodeday 2015, Nodeday 2015 at DigitasLBi
Computer Science and Information Technologies, Computer Science and Information Technologies at Florida International University
Microsoft Business Intelligence and e-Commerce Solution Developer Certificate, Microsoft Business Intelligence and e-Commerce Solution Developer Certificate at Miami Dade College
Bachelor's Degree Computer System Engineering and Information Technologies, Bachelor's Degree Computer System Engineering and Information Technologies at Central American University (Nicaragua)
Conferences and Workshops Building Modern Applications, Conferences and Workshops Building Modern Applications at Visual Studio Live (Orlando, FL)
English, Portuguese, Spanish