Marcos Toledo

Profile

Rails and frontend developer focusing on startup projects
Experience working remotely with global teams
8 years of professional programming experience

Skills

Web Application Backend

Architecture for greenfield applications, scalability for pre-existing applications, performance tuning

Frontend Development

From newest HTML 5 features to javascript best practices and css that's both maintainable and reliable

Agile Teamlead

Over 3 years working remotely, leading and tuning the process on a world distributed, asynchronous agile team

Technical

Ruby
Rails, Sinatra
AMQP

HTML 5
CSS 3
jQuery

Java EE
Encodings / Unicode
Linux and OS X

Experience

Trade2Win

Lead programmer (remote)

11/2008 - present

Worked as a senior programmer and then team lead, on three different projects:

ForexDesk

A social trading website where forex traders can watch other traders' stats and choose to do the same trades on their forex broker's accounts as other traders, literally 'following' their trades. Backend uses EventMachine, RabbitMQ and JRuby for integrating with a forex broker's Java API

Trade2win

Rewrite in rails and redesign legacy sections, including full text search and single sign on with legacy application, and integration with ForexDesk

Replay Poker

A playmoney poker website, rewritten from scratch in rails as well as a custom built, multi threaded tcp/ip ruby poker server which servers a stateful flash client

Amil

Senior Java Developer

08/2005 - 11/2008

The biggest health insurance company in brazil, with massive scale from beneficiaries, clinics and labs

Architected and worked on the implementation of the mission critical web service used by all hospitals and clinics in the country to request beneficiary information, schedule procedures and billing

Clustered web application and database servers infrastructure

Nortel

R&D Java Developer

04/2003 - 08/2005

Work on tools used by network engineers to provision CDMA antennas and equipment on carriers

Both Java server side and client side development

Led team of 5 people locally plus 4 to 7 developers in India, working with teams on US, Canada and China

Web Application Developer

+1 (415) 800-2884

mtoledo@gmail.com