Javier Santiago Lozano

Entrepreneur & Developer

"Make it 'til you sell it."

(Not "fake it 'til you make it")

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Experience

Vlipco

Head of Technology

Building banking products for financial institutions in latin america.

Finkeros

CTO & Co-Founder

Platform for renting fincas (countryside homes) in Latin America. Developed various web apps and a mobile hybrid app.

Bloom

Product Development & Software Engineering

Consultancy & startups incubation. Leading several web apps development. Overseeing back-end, front-end and DevOps

Kiwi

CTO & Co-Founder

(Pivoted) Formerly a digital assistant for everyday needs (shopping, flight / hotels booking, etc.). Now a college campus based robot delivery service.

Lulo

CTO & Co-Founder

(Acquired) Platform for grocery shopping (mobile & web). Developed iOS hybrid app, web app and infrastructure.

Skills

Front End Web Development: Elm, Javascript (VueJS, AngularJS, ReactJS), CSS (SASS, Stylus), HTML (Jade/Pug), CoffeeScript.

DevOps / Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS, Docker, Heroku

Back End: Ruby (Rails, Grape), NodeJS (Express, Sequelize, Hapi, SailsJS, Keystone), PHP (Yii, Laravel, Wordpress). A bit of Haskell & Clojure.

Design: Empirical and proficient UX / UI designer.

Mobile: React Native, Hybrid app development (AppGyver Steroids / Supersonic, Cordova, Ionic)

Contributions

funcssion (SASS): The atomic CSS library

skycoins (Elm): A time-trial mod of the original game

Education

Systems and Computing Engineer

2007-2012

Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá, Colombia

Computer Science Exchange Student

2010-1

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Florianópolis, Brasil

Languages

Spanish: 10 (Native)

English: 9 (Fluent)

Portuguese: 9 (Fluent)

French: 4 (Basic)