Luis Ávila
Head of Catalogue
ROXi
about
Introduced to computers at the age of 5, I had my first webpage at 8 and started programming at 12.
A strong advocate for open-source and an avid self-hoster. I am deeply passionate about technology and its potential to improve lives.
My interests extend beyond tech into education, music, and art.
what i work with
experience
• Managed a small team of engineers.
• Delivered the move into a monorepo approach with CDK as the go-to infra-as-code solution and Buddy for CI/CD.
• Continued the development of newer and better search algorithms.
• Quickstarted our research into music classification and recommendations.
• Initiated the move from daily ingest processes to event-based, real time, updates.
ROXi is an upstart music entertainment brand, building music streaming products designed to get friends and family together round a TV.
• Managed the ElasticSearch music catalog and continuously enhanced our music search algorithms.
• Developed microservices with typescript, the serverless framework, and AWS infrastructure.
• Addressed content challenges by delivering internal curation tools and automating matching processe.
• Designed and optimised our video ingest pipeline
• Regularly collaborated with music labels and service providers to ensure the optimal functionality and performance of our services.
blow LTD is the UK’s leading on demand beauty business. A business designed by women, for women, with beauty services delivered at a time and place that suits you booked through an easy, award-winning app.
• Built several microservices with Node.JS (javascript, serverless.js and flow.js), AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS, S3 and DynamoDB.
• Implemented CI/CD with Github Actions.
• Part of a big database restructure to support internationalization, writing migration scripts and updating backend and frontend logic.
• Worked on the react-powered client website and admin tools.
• Implemented graphql as querying language between the AP and the backends.
Técnico is the largest school of Architecture, Engineering, Science and Technology in Portugal, involving a community of over 10,000 people.
• Joined to support and develop custom WordPress plug-ins in PHP.
• Implemented CI/CD and worked alongside the DevOs team to deliver automations.
• Developed authentication solutions with CAS and SAML.
• Took part in the development of several Node.JS/Vue.JS applications.
• Lead the change from WordPress-as-a-CMS to a headless installation. Using a custom-built API and moving our sites to Nuxt (SSR Vue.JS) helped achieve a quicker page load, better responsiveness and user satisfaction. We achieved low-latency response times with response caching and ElasticSearch.
Limpa-m’isto was a cleaning services company that acted as an intermediary between clients and service providers, maintaining a unified brand and customer experience. I led the transition from manual Excel-based operations to a full technological stack, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency.
• Designed and implemented a scalable MongoDB schema and set up the initial infrastructure.
• Developed a stateless backend with Loopback.js (a Node.JS framework) supporting internationalization and templated commuications (SMS/Email) with built-in versioning.
• Developed an administrative interface using Angular 2-4 with real-time updates via socket.IO.
• Created a responsive website with Bootstrap/PHP and a cross-platform mobile app using Ionic (Angular 2).
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