About Me

Currently a Software Engineer on ShopRunner's Payments & Fraud Team, I was previously was the Team Lead on Walgreen's Specialty Pharmacy Website. I graduated as an Electrical Engineer was a Wireless Communications Engineer for Verizon until I grew a burning passion for Software and followed my passion through -- I feel blessed everyday.

Contact Details

Hector Ramos
New Jersey, USA
HectorRamos.Junior@gmail.com

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Skills

Python is my favorite programming language; I'm a big fan of how readable and easy to use it is. As a Full Stack Engineer, I can handle Front End and Back End, but favor backend.

  • Python
  • C#
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Django
  • ASP.NET
  • Databases/SQL
  • React

Work

ShopRunner

Software Engineer - Payments & Fraud • October 2019 - Now

  • • Engineered Express Checkout, a consistent quick, easy and secure consumer checkout experience across retailer websites
  • • Developed RESTful APIs handling consumer credit cards with third party tokenization in line with PCI security standards
  • • Improved performance metrics, logging, and alerting on front + back end apps and streamlined monitoring on Datadog + Sumologic

Jensen & Brusca Consulting Group

Full Stack Engineer Team Lead • October 2016 - October 2019

  • • Lead development on a comprehensive Walgreens Pharmacy website serving hundreds of pharmacy locations nationally
  • • Engineered APIs interfacing with sensitive healthcare web services for patient/insurance data in SOAP/REST
  • • Deployed, maintained, and improved websites in Microsoft Azure via IIS using Javascript, ASP.NET MVC, and MS SQL technologies

Nextdoor

Software Engineer Intern - DevTools • June 2016 - August 2016

  • • Worked as part of the DevTools Team developing internal tools to optimize team performance and streamline complex processes
  • • Implemented Test Driven Development in BASH/Python to create a command line interface program for centralizing developer tools
  • • Interfaced with Slack’s APIs for a stateless webapp creating changelog emails with Slack OAuth and Slack notifications

Education

Rutgers University

BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Relevant Courses:
  • Programming Methodology
  • Computer Architecture and Assembly
  • Discrete Mathematics

Favorite Quotes

  • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

    Steve Jobs

  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

    Chinese philosopher Laozi

  • Most programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

    Linus Torvalds

  • I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again my my life.
    And that is why I succeed.

    Michael Jordan