Jose Franco Olea Vallejo

Spanish

Native

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

2021 - Present

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

2021 - Present

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

2021 - Present

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

2021

Diplomaed in Videogames Development and Interactive & 3D Multimedia Applications

Dec 2015 - May 2016

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Manager, Software Development Engineering

Apr 2024 - Present

Thomson Reuters

• Manager of the Mexico team (12 members) and Co-Manager of two sub-teams (~20 members) for Contract Express product.
• Managed and provided technical support to technical engineering teams across multiple initiatives.
• Provided the team with thought leadership to promote, re-use and develop consistent and scalable patterns.
• Lead a project to make the application AODA (WCAG 2.0) compliant with a due date.
• Participated in the design and decision-making of new AI-related projects.
• Provided daily direction and oversight for two scrum teams consisting of ~15 team members.
• Collaborated effectively with project managers, system engineers, and the senior management team to allocate engineering resources appropriately across the project.
• Fostered a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and a fun work environment.
• Contributed to all aspects of our Agile software development process including story creation, backlog organization, technical design, sprint planning, demos, retros, and sprint metrics.
• Coached and mentored teammates on technical and soft skills, helping them to improve their performance.
• Encouraged the team to develop and grow their technical skills.
• Managed the hiring process for 6 new team members under my org.
• Participated in the hiring process for 3 new indirect team members.

Lead Software Engineer

Sep 2021 - Mar 2024

Thomson Reuters

• Tech Lead in the design, development, and maintenance of a product called Contract Express
• Lead the local (Mexico) development team on maintaining and implementing new features for our product.
• Lead the tech design and architecture of new features, like an AI Chat Assistant using RAG model, and a new UI design implementation in the core of the UI system.
• Develop and lead new system requirments, designs and bug fixes.
• Implementation of new Github PR templates to standardize Pull Requests information and make code-reviews easier.
• Encouraged the team to develop and grow their technical skills.
• Coach and mentor teammates on technical and soft skills, helping them to improve their performance.
• Took most of the responsibilities of the Scrum Master after he left the team, for more than a year, leading scrum daily ceremonies, improving ADO tasks planning and implementing sprint retrospectives.
• Implemented dashboards to measure team performance and a new dashboard on PowerBI to measure number of opened/solved bugs in ADO which was taken as an example for other teams to have similar dashboards with the same technology.
• Helped on DevOps tasks, creating and modifying ADO build and release pipelines, giving tips, analyzing and helping on modifying the infrastructure of Dev/Prod environments.
• Helped Service team solving issues reported by clients, analyzing and solving the problems, and sometimes having calls with clients to understand and give solutions to their issues.
• Helped Service team on analyzing and creating solutions for Azure infrastructure modification and performance improvements.

Software Development Manager

May 2018 - Aug 2021

Comisión Reguladora de Energía

• Tech Lead in the design, development, and maintenance of web services and systems
• Lead development teams (up-to 30 members) for differente projects and requirements.
• Lead the design and architecture of new systems.
• Develop and lead new systems requirments and bug fixes.
• Creation of NuGet packages for custom and generic functions, classes and interfaces.
• Azure administrator
• Implementation of a new architecture for the Azure infrastructure of the institution with geo-redundancy and communication with On-Premise site.
• Creation and management of IaaS, PaaS, communication, data and analytics services.
• Cost & budget management and projection based on current and future needs and requirements.
• Infrastructure monitoring with azure alerts and dashboards.
• Azure DevOps administrator
• Managing and implementing Git Branching strategies and policies, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Managing and installing agent pools and deployment pools on Azure and On-Prem Windows servers for Azure Pipelines.
• Migrating TFVC Repositories to Git
• Planning and tracking activities for projects creating sprints and using boards, creating custom Scrum processes according to the needs.

Software Development Assistant Manager

Dec 2016 - Apr 2018

Comisión Reguladora de Energía

• Manage Azure DevOps repositories and prjects.
• Development and maintenance of web systems and REST APIs with .Net Framework 4.5+ and jQuery.
• Technical problems resolution.
• Continuous improvements of web systems.
• jQuery plugins creation.
• Plugins creation and code refactoring to improve code performance and quality.

Web Developer

Dec 2015 - Nov 2016

Lagash

• Development and maintenance of web systems and REST APIs with .Net Framework 4.5+ and jQuery.
• Technical problems resolution.
• Continuous improvements of web systems.
• jQuery plugins creation.
• Plugins creation and code refactoring to improve quality and code performance.