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Alberto Vargas

Full Stack Developer

Hello and welcome to my professional portfolio. Please enjoy walking through the career and educational paths.

Work Experiences

Cornerstone Systems Northwest, Inc.

Software Developer
June 2020 - February 2024
Lynden, WA

IA Desktop
  • Maintained Electron deep links feature to leverage communication in support of Federal pipeline inspection efforts.
  • Wrote, prioritized, and assigned stories using the Pivotal tracker agile project management tool.
  • Lead efforts to transition unit testing framework to Playwright within the context of our Electron.js hybrid app.
  • Documented and triaged dozens of end-user error reports from log records or user support tickets.
  • Shipped updates and patches according to predefined release dates in compliance with statements of work and agendas.

Tobacco Control Policy Tool
  • Led the delivery of the Tobacco Control Policy’s Tool Graphic Health Warnings Site.
  • Transcribed communication with stakeholders into epics to meet project demands.

Daycast Time Tracker and Planner
  • Led the development of a Payroll Report feature to streamline payroll accounting company wide, including overtime hours.
  • Enabled Slack integration to notify our support channels when users were added or removed from their paying accounts.
  • Implemented pagination of billable time entries feature.
  • Supported business developer by automating billable overtime calculations.

Maxx Potential, LLC

Technology Apprentice
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Durham, NC

Participated in technology apprenticeship focused on applying software development, Quality Assurance and Testing, Information Security, and other tech skills on projects for Enterprise, Small Business, and Agency partners.

Raven's Eye Solutions, LLC

Contract Developer
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Durham, NC

Crafted testable custom UI components for the production codebase of Pouracle, a craft beverage rating application.

Designed and developed interactive data visualization dashboards using D3.js, Typescript, and React.js.

Duke Center for Personalized Health Care

Research Aide
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Durham, NC

Analyzed and visualized social determinants of health data. Worked with electronic health records data using Python to evaluate the predictive validity of social determinants of health screening tool and health outcomes and utilization. Supported grant writing and research proposal submission to obtain external funding to expand research and support ongoing operations of the Center

UNC Information and Technology Services

Research Computing Support
Specialist
June 2018 - Mar 2020
Chapel Hill, NC

Triaged and solved advanced support tickets using Linux-based clusters, storage environments, and services. In addition, I reviewed existing and craft WordPress sites with written and visual technical documentation destined for UNC researchers.

Collaborates with clients to develop full stack web apps for diverse research projects.

Pelmorex Corporation

Consultant
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Oakville, ON, Canada
Consultant Developer

Consulted team of developers for >180 hours in front and backend development of four automated weather web applications. Used D3.js to render animated data visualizations of longitudinal weather forecasts. Integrated a Redis database to a web socket to enable live streaming of relevant weather information.

Front-end Trainer

Tailored 20 hours of live remote front-end development training for a team of 3 graphic designers, focusing on HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, responsive development, and data visualization with D3.js.

Trilogy Education Services

Web Development Teaching Assistant
May 2018 - May 2019
Chapel Hill, NC

Engaged students and reinforced their knowledge of core web development concepts in individual and group settings. Assisted instructors with clerical responsibilities in the classroom and involvement with students during office hours.

UNC School of Medicine

Clinical Research Assistant
August 2017 - March 2018
Chapel Hill, NC

I worked with a multidisciplinary team of UNC faculty to read, clean, transform, summarize, and harmonize data from 430 participants of the Mothers and Others Family-Based Obesity Prevention randomized controlled trial. I also crafted R-Markdown technical documentation with step-by-step walkthroughs of data cleaning procedures and embedded graphics using the ggplot2 data visualization library.

CIINQ

Coalicion Interdisciplinaria de Investigacion Nutricional Quisqueya
Co-Founder
August 2016 - August 2020
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

I managed a research agenda with a focus on cardiometabolic disease risk factors in the Dominican Republic with a team of researchers. Our projects included conducting a worksite wellness evaluation on over 500 private insurance company employees to assess nutritional health. I spearheaded the design and execution of statistical analyses to calculate the risk of hypertension in male and female company employees.

UNC Department of Nutrition

Graduate Research Assistant
August 2013 - December 2016
Chapel Hill, NC

I analyzed dietary, environmental, and cardiovascular risk factors in >2,000 women participants of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) under the mentorship of Linda Adair, PhD. In addition, I inspected, reviewed, and updated nutrient content data for >600 food items to visualize diet trends in the Philippines for 18 years from 1994-2012. During my master's thesis, I applied longitudinal regression analyses to understand how blood pressure changed with changes in urbanicity in adult participants of the CLHNS from 1998 - 2012.

Education

Full Stack Web Development Certificate

UNC Chapel-Hill
October 2017 - May 2018
I trained for 24 weeks to learn an array of web technologies to develop front-, back-, and full stack web applications both independently and in a group environment.

MS in Nutritional Sciences

UNC Chapel-Hill
August 2013 - May 2017

Master's Thesis: Exposure to Urbanization and its Longitudinal Association with Blood and Pulse Pressure in Adult Filipina Women.

Honors & Awards: Koch Travel Award, National Institutes of Health National Research Award, Gillings School of Global Public Health Merit Scholarship

BS in Nutritional Sciences

The Pennsylvania State University
August 2009 - May 2013
Minors in French and International Studies

Professional Skills

Top Skills

Front End

Back End

Statistical Packages

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Soft Skills

Communication

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I make sure to conscientiously engage in active listening to convey my interest and focus on the information being communicated to me. I will paraphrase for clarity, demonstrate concern, ask questions for clarification, use non-verbal cues like nodding and eye contact; and empathize by disclosing similar experiences when applicable, in order to empathize for others' situations.

Motivation

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I motivate others to do their best mainly by maintaining an inclusive, non-judgmental attitude that invites peers to share their interests, inputs, and participation. I do my best to recognize peers for their efforts, keep myself open to any concerns needed to address, and mentor others when necessary. I also motivate others by sharing my passion for the big picture of projects at hand.

Positivity

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I do my best to keep a positive attitude at work by helping to manage conflicts between team members when they arise. In many occasions, peers trust me with concerns or perceived conflicts where they wouldn’t normally be comfortable in sharing in group settings. This gives me opportunities to be empathetic, friendly, and caring, raising peers’ moral and willingness to be present at work.

Other Skills

Test Driven Development jQuery Playwright.js D3.js ggplot2 Git Jest Bootstrap Tableau Spanish French

Projects I've Worked On

Daycast Time Tracker

Node.js, Electron.js, Backbone.js, PostgreSQL

Tobacco Control Policy Tool

React.js, D3.js, Node.js, Netlify

Inspection Assistant Desktop

React.js, Node.js with Express, PostgreSQL, Electron.js, Playwright, C#
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Get in Touch

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I'm currently looking for full-time employment as a Software Engineer. I'm also open to opportunities as a Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity Analyst, or Data Engineer. I'm very approachable and willing to accept any advice, suggestions, or input to make me a stronger candidate for my applications. I also love to collaborate on projects so if you have any cool projects or ideas that need another pair of hands definitely let me know!

I can help with the following:

  • App development with the MERN Stack
  • Front-end development with React.js
  • Back-end development with Node.js, Flask, and Django
  • Data visualization and analyses with R Studio, scikit-learn, and D3.js

Email me at a.vargasmarte@gmail.com