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Charlie Barras

@charliebarras

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Seasoned Full Stack - AI Engineer with expertise in cloud-native solutions.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a role that fosters innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning, where I can contribute to impactful projects and grow my technical expertise.

I am a seasoned Full Stack Engineer and Mobile Architect with over 8 years of experience in delivering enterprise-grade web, mobile, and cloud solutions across various domains including fintech, e-commerce, media, and telecom. My expertise lies in building high-performance, scalable applications using a diverse tech stack including Java, Node.js, React Native, Swift, and Kotlin, along with modern cloud technologies on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

At TrueMotion, I led the development of a Smart Financial Wellness App that serves over 80,000 users, achieving a 99.95% uptime and significantly improving loan decision turnaround time by integrating AI/ML models. My role involved orchestrating backend architecture, building RESTful microservices, and implementing CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment times by 40%. I take pride in mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features efficiently.

My journey has equipped me with strong analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset, allowing me to thrive in fast-paced, Agile environments. I am passionate about leveraging technology to create innovative solutions that enhance user experiences and drive business success.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

Current

TrueMotion

Apr 2021 - Present (4 years 4 months)

Led the end-to-end development of a Smart Financial Wellness App with integrated AI, serving over 80,000+ users across responsive web and mobile platforms. Orchestrated infrastructure on AWS EKS (Kubernetes) to support 99.95% uptime and scale to 2 million+ monthly API calls.

Java Spring Boot Azure Kubernetes Terraform Bitbucket Pipelines Chef Kafka Python TensorFlow Twilio WebRTC Golang Scala Akka PostgreSQL MongoDB DynamoDB Junit Postman)Selenium React Native

Senior Software Engineer

Symphony Commerce

Sep 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Developed a hybrid mobile platform for facilitating classical music concerts using JavaScript and React Native, resulting in 85% code share between iOS and Android while reducing development time by 50%. Responsible for scoping and developing client websites using the enterprise version of Magento Commerce e-commerce platform.

JavaScript React Native CSS3 Flexbox Storybook React Navigation LayoutAnimated Animated API Magento iOS Development Android AngularJS HTML5 SEO Google Analytics Woopra

Junior Software Engineer

InnoVantage

Sep 2016 - Aug 2019 (2 years 11 months)

Implemented applications using Agile/SCRUM methodology and participated in daily stand-ups, retro-meetings, demo sessions, sprint planning sessions, and design meetings. Developed WCF Domain Services and leveraged WCF to customize operations for performances and data paging, applying WPF Dispatcher Objects and C# Multi-threading features.

Agile Scrum WPF Expression Blend Visual Studio XAML C MVVM WCF NUnit LINQ Grunt

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of San Agustin

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2012 - 2016

Grade: 3.77/4.00

Studied Computer Science with coursework in Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Data Systems, Networking & Security Fundamentals, AI & Data Science. Achieved a GPA of 3.77/4.00.