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 do

PROGRAMMING
TESTING
DEVOPS
MANAGEMENT

what i work with


experience

feb 2022 - present
Head of Catalogue ROXi, London

• Managed a small team of engineers.

• Designed and delivered multiple internal projects.

• Continued the development of newer search algorithms.

• Quickstarted our research into music classification and recommendations.

oct 2020 - feb 2022
Backend Engineer ROXi, London

ROXi is an upstart music entertainment brand, building music streaming products designed to get friends and family together round a TV.

• Managed the ElasticSearch catalog and continuously enhanced our music search algorithms.

• Developed microservices using typescript, the serverless framework, and AWS infrastructure.

• Addressed content challenges by creating internal curation tools and automating curation/matching processes.

• 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.

nov 2019 - oct 2020
Full Stack Developer blow LTD, Lisbon

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.

• Joined to work on the 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

• Took part in a huge database restructure to support internationalization, making the data migration scripts and updating both backend and frontend logic

• Worked on the website and admin panel, both built with react

• Implemented graphql as querying language between the AP and the backends

apr 2017 - oct 2019
Full Stack Developer Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon

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 in Gitlab for multiple repositories

• 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

dec 2016 — may 2018
CIO/CTO (Startup) Limpa-m'isto, Lisbon

Limpa-m’isto was a cleaning company acting as intermediary between clients and companies while keeping a unified image and brand. I was responsible for the move from Excel spreadsheets to an entire technological stack.

• Designed the MongoDB schema and setup our whole infrastructure

• Developed a stateless backend with Loopback.js (a Node.JS framework) supporting internationalization and communication (SMS/Email) templates with built-in versioning

• Developed an administrative interface with Angular 2-4 with real-time communication using socket.IO

• Developed a customer-facing website with Bootstrap/PHP and a mobile app with Ionic (Angular 2)

• Simplified overcomplicated processes and tailored solutions to improve retention and customer satisfaction


education

1
2015-2019
Instituto Superior Técnico
BsC in Computer Science and Engineering

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