Santiago Angel

Mexico City, New York · Part-time · Since April 2021

Asset management of S&P top technological stocks and international ETFs.

Mexico City, Amsterdam · Part-time · Since April 2021

Technical advisor in Kubernetes & cloud native development for local and global consultancies.

Mexico City · Full-time · Aug 2018 - March 2021

Senior Solution Architect, Middleware, Telco

Responsibilities:

Serve as the subject matter expert at the client site, addressing the technical, development, and strategic IT needs.

Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, software specification, and the design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions.

Architect solutions to meet the unique requirements of new and emerging customers, and oversee proofs of concepts and pilot implementations of our solutions portfolio.

Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale our services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.

Mexico City & Queretaro (Mexico) · Full-time · Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

Identify new requirements.

Architecture feedback to automation tools.

Help in the support of daily operations.

Deployment of agile solutions.

Integration of CI / CD solutions.

Technologies used: Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Netflix OSS, OAuth, Microservices, JWT, MongoDB, Red Hat Ansible, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus.

Mexico City & Queretaro (Mexico) · Full-time · May - Dec 2017

Lead, design, and implement general tooling platforms and services for use by development and operations team to streamline and automate our build, release, and deployment process.

Building and extending continuous delivery technology platforms with the goal of moving changes to production faster and safer.

Contribute to system architecture design.

Technologies used: Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Netflix OSS, OAuth, Microservices, JWT, MongoDB, Red Hat Ansible, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus.

Mexico City & Queretaro (Mexico) · Full-time · April - May 2017

Responsibilities: Design and development of technical architecture using big data technology. Analysis of data sources from traditional systems. Create Spark based solutions to support data ingestion from client and business data from all group.

Technologies used: Cloudera CDH 5, Apache Spark, Hive, Oozie, Hue, Scala, Amazon AWS.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Full-time · December 2016 - April 2017

Responsibilities: Technical design, research, architecture, consulting and development of core projects: connectors for Payment Networks, SPEI in Mexico, SWIFT in France and Ripple Global Settlement Network for US and other markets.

Technologies used: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 with Java EE 7 & Java 8, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, C24 Data Platform, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Microsoft .NET Core, Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite, 3scale API, Red Hat Single Sign-On, Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Scala, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, MongoDB, HTML5, jQuery, Bootstrap, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker & Kubernetes.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Full-time · June 2015 - November 2016

Responsibilities: Architecture, consulting, design and support for projects at HSBC Global Banking and Markets Mexico and Latin America and with clients in Mexico, United States and Colombia.

In charge of the architecture of web services, security and UI for our product line VolPay (Foundation, Hub and Channel). Maintenance of development, testing and pre-production environments of VolPay Hub with Amazon AWS, OpenShift and Docker.

Technologies used: Java Enterprise Edition 6 & 7, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JAXB, JPA, Oauth, JWT, Apache CXF, JBoss Keycloak, JBoss PicketLink, Apache DeltaSpike, Spring Security, Red Hat JBoss EAP, Red Hat JBoss Tools, Apache Camel, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Netty, IBM MQ, Volante Technologies Designer, Unix Shell, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, UML, Maven, HTML5, AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, C3, D3, Grunt, Amazon AWS, OpenShift, Docker.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Fulltime · March 2015 - May 2015

Responsibilities: Continuous improvement and implementation of key functionalities of the bank’s security. Dynamic integration of authorization services for the business process protection. Creation of a security API design for backend consuming.

Technologies used: JAX-RS, JAX-WS, WS-Security, CXF, Oauth, JWT, SAML, Spring Security, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss EAP, Red Hat JBoss Tools.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Fulltime · August 2014 - March 2015

Responsibilities: Solutions design for the Risk and Regulatory Reports area of Bank of Mexico. Financial data integration and process engineering to unify different data sources and channels through data buses and business intelligence software.

Achievements: Improvement in the report generation. Time and risk reduction associated with new projects.

Technologies used: IBM Rational Team Concert, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Informix DB, Oracle DB, Oracle Weblogic, IBM Websphere Application Server 6 & 7, Spring, Apache Camel, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Volante Technologies Designer, Oracle Data Integrator, Unix Shell, AWK, IBM Sterling Connect Direct, Informix 4GL, Control- M, Eclipse, Maven, Java Security(Jasypt, Bouncy Castle).

Mexico City (Mexico) · Fulltime · December 2013 - August 2014

Responsibilities: Support in the front-end architecture design. Framework election that met corporative requirements. Proof of concept, demonstrations and beta versions development.

Achievements: Development time reduction through automated build solutions integration. Code testing. State-of-the-art technology balance uses with stable, secure and validated versions.

Technologies used: IBM Rational Architect, Eclipse, STS, HTML 5, Spring(MVC, AOP, Thymeleaf), Hibernate Validator, JQuery, AngularJS, IBM Websphere 6 & 7, Maven, SVN, REST Web services.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Fulltime · April 2013 - November 2013

Responsibilities: Requirements analysis and project implementation. Support and development to all of the company’s loyalty portals. Production troubleshooting. Migrating projects in a continuous integration environment.

Achievements: Faster response time to fix errors through that use shared code repositories. Improvement in new and existing developments due to the implementation of agile environments and working methods based on standards.

Technologies used: IBM Rational Architect, Java EE, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, Eclipse, STS, SSH, Maven, SVN, Bash shell, JBoss Developer Studio, Oracle SQL Developer, Java EE, HTML 5, Spring, JSF, EJBs, JQuery, Alfresco ECM, JBoss ESB, Jira, Jenkins.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Fulltime · July 2012 - April 2013

Responsibilities: Design, development and testing for online banking (current and new version). Development of the login page (login) to integrate existing and new banks into a single model. Improvement and updating of applications. Automated generation of statistics and reports for user logs through bash scripts. Attention incidents in production, media analysis solutions to productive problems and reporting of business rules (BPW).

Achievements: Improved performance of the applications used in online banking. Web applications now meet current safety standards and HTML5. Automation of different processes.

Technologies used: Eclipse, STS, Bash shell, IBM Rational Architect, Java EE, HTML 5, Spring(MVC, security), JQuery, IBM Websphere 6 & 7, Apache Geronimo, Visual Age, SSH, Maven, SVN, Git, Jira, IBM MQ, LDAP, REST Web services, UNIX Daemons.

Mexico City, Monterrey, Hermosillo, Oaxaca, Cuernavaca & Puebla (Mexico) · Fulltime · June 2007 - July 2012

Electric Distribution Network Simulator.

Responsibilities: Architecture design for the project. Sequence and class diagrams. Functional specification. Development of UI (Java Swing). Integration of geographic data (position of electrical equipment). Deployment of the electricity grid maps. Database modeling following the specification IEC CIM 61968. Migration and integration between databases (Informix and PostgreSQL). Application integration calculation for electrical networks programmed in Fortran and its conversion to JSON web services. Coordination of programmers and developers. Selection of software and hardware. Presentation of the project to CFE’s managers.

Achievements: Creating innovative technology and world-class in the field of electrical engineering. Savings in project resources due to the usage of open software solutions. The implemented software can be scaled horizontally or vertically thanks to the raised modular architecture.

Technologies used: Enterprise Architect, Power Designer, Oracle SQL Developer, DB Visualizer, EnterpriseDB’s PostgreSQL Advanced Server, Informix, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, Netbeans, SSH, Maven, Git.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Consultant · January 2010 - July 2010

Online Learning Platform.

Responsibilities: Administration, operationalization and technical support to the distance learning platform Moodle used in the educational offer. Platform monitoring. Interface customization.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Consultant · December 2009 - January 2010

Simulation of hydropower plants.

Responsibilities: Graphical interfaces migration from GTK to Nokia Qt. Correction and adaptation of C code to C ++.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Consultant · November 2008 - December 2009

Online Learning Platform.

Responsibilities: Administration, operationalization and technical support to the distance learning platform Moodle used in the educational offer. Platform monitoring. Interface customization.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Fulltime · October 2006 - January 2007

Responsibilities: Improving administration and billing system tailored for this company implemented in Java using Apache Tomcat as application server and MS SQL Server as a database.

Mexico City (Mexico) · Fulltime · September 2006 - December 2006

Responsibilities: Creation of an electronic billing system for ADEMSA/TMM. Developed to measure, using advanced electronic signature and Solomon ERP. It was implemented in Java using JBoss as an application server and MS SQL Server as a database.

Software Document management for the National Insurance and Bonding Commission (CNSF). I coordinated a team of programmers to make corrections and improvements to the development.

CNF vPCF Onboarding on OpenShift in Red Hat OpenStack Platform for Number One Telco Provider in Latam.

Policy Control Cloud Native Function of Telco Vendor integrated(onboarding) in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on top of Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

The onboarding was made with Red Hat OpenShift Operator Framework and Operator Helm SDK. https://github.com/operator-framework

This project is the first onboarding of a CNF in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Red Hat OpenStack Platform in Latam.

Design of Multi cloud Architecture for Number One Telco Provider in Latam:

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on premise + Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

Made in association with Microsoft México.

Proof of Concept for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on RH OSP for Number one Telco Provider in Latam.

Enablement to the platform, test drives, workshop, tech talks.

Pilot to production of cloud native customer mobile lines activation application.

CNF vPCF Onboarding on OpenShift in VMWare for Number One Telco Provider in Latam.

Policy Control Cloud Native Function of Telco Vendor integrated(onboarding) in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on top of VMWare Infrastructure.

The onboarding was made with Red Hat OpenShift Operator Framework and Operator Helm SDK. https://github.com/operator-framework

This project was the first onboarding of a CNF in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in Latam.

Ver proyecto: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - CNF vPCF Onboarding on OpenShift in VMWare

Pilot to production of cloud native customer mobile lines activation application of Number one Telco Provider in Latam.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on VMWare.

A proof of concept was developed for Number One Telco Provider in Latam to validate OpenShift features related to infrastructure and telco.

An ATP of 30+ Container Native Applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Top of VMWare in customer datacenter was finished with great success.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on RHV.

A proof of concept was developed for Number One Telco Provider in Latam to validate OpenShift features.

An ATP of 60+ Container Native Applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Top of Red Hat Virtualization in customer datacenter was finished with great success.

Santiago Angel, Arturo De Florencio, Jalil Bonilla

Includes a full CI/CD platform with end to end delivery from development to production.

An artificial intelligence agent (AOT-Bot) who supports human interaction at email, skype and web channels allowing automation of several services in IT operations at Banco Santander. https://join.skype.com/bot/73865a6d-145e-4808-80d7-7783d888435c

A team of 100+ people

Agile development, digital banking and fast client on boarding.

https://cuentadigital.santander.com.mx/pyme/#/

https://cuentadigital.santander.com.mx/personas/#/

Personal project for fintechs.

Infrastructure as code for AWS, Openshift, CI, CD and devops methodology

https://github.com/santiagoangel/ocaws-design

A team of 100+ people

Agile development, digital banking and fast client on boarding.

https://cuentadigital.santander.com.mx/pyme/#/

https://cuentadigital.santander.com.mx/personas/#/

Santiago Angel, Oscar Flores Conde, Saúl Ortiz

4/6 eyes authorization engine (four/six-eyes principle and up to 10 security levels) for critical transaction approval (e.g. payments actions) completely integrated in VolPay Security - AuthC & AuthZ for Web.

Santiago Angel, David Lozano Torres

Netty based connectors for VolPay Hub and legacy TCP sockets systems (e.g. AS400) with message interchange on IBM MQ between payments orchestration engine and internal banking systems.

Santiago Angel, Santiago Montesinos Padilla, David Lozano Torres, Girisha Neeraje

Authentication & authorization for Java EE 6/7 web applications configured by CDI. It includes support of custom HTML5 login, Oauth token, (UI) management for user, roles & permissions (aka entitlement), two-factor authentication integration (HOTP, OTP) and four/six-eyes principle for critical transaction approval.

Santiago Angel, Alicia Maya, Julio César Navarro Cabrera

HSBC - Reporting of transactions involving amounts over $ 100,000 USD to Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) by the FEC protocol via TCP sockets using IBM MQ, Netty, Apache Camel and Volante Designer for transforming internal bank data to the format, channel encoding and serialization required by Banxico.

Santiago Angel, David Lozano, Santiago Montesinos Padilla, José García

REST based endpoints for integration to Ripple’s Payments API in VolPay Hub.

Santiago Angel, David Lozano, Santiago Montesinos Padilla, José García

VolPay Hub is a centralizing payment orchestration engine for the digital payments age. Through open, configurable adapters any payment type, from any source or channel can be acquired and processed by the system. VolPay Hub enables the rapid standardization of processes and workflows, applying business defined rules to control and manage the flow of payment transactions inside the organization from acquisition to delivery. The application is a configurable, centralized, digital payment process orchestration application. It simplifies the mechanism for on-boarding new payment flows and then enables the execution of the necessary technical and functional activities to successfully and efficiently complete the lifecycle of any payment transaction. http://www.volantetech.com/products/volpay/

HSBC - Compliance reports to Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) of stock market transactions with Volante Designer for transformation and integration of internal data and generation of documents & statistics.

Santiago Angel, Ricardo Mota-Palomino, Miguel Jiménez Guzmán

This simulator allows the user to analyze and study future or historical conditions on the electrical behavior of the distribution network and take corrective or reactive actions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi6_lm8fYUw

Spanish (native)

English (professional proficiency)

HTML, AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap.

Java, Javascript, C, C++, Bash, Fortran.

MySQL, SQL Server, Informix, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB.

Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows.

Enterprise Architect, Power Designer, Oracle SQL Developer, DB Visualizer, EnterpriseDB’s PostgreSQL Advanced Server, IBM Websphere Application Server 6-7-8.5 , JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5, 6 & 7, JBoss AS 7, JBoss Wildfly AS 8, 9 & 10, Eclipse, Netbeans, Spring, JSF, EJBs, SSH, Maven, Git, Bash, AWK, Jira, IBM Rational Architect, IBM Rational Team Concert, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-6-7, Informix DB, Oracle DB, Oracle Weblogic 11, Oracle Data Integrator, Volante Technologies Designer, IBM Sterling Connect Direct, Informix 4GL, Control-M, JBoss Developer Studio, Intel Compiler Suite, Maven, Git, Moodle, MySQL, Apache HTTPd, PHP, GIMP, Qt Designer, Gtk Glade, Gcc, Cygwin, Visual Studio, Vi, Apache AB, rsync, Hibernate, JSP, Apache Tomcat, iText, Ibatis, Struts, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon AWS, Docker, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, STS, Alfresco ECM, JBoss ESB, Java Security(Jasypt, Bouncy Castle), Jenkins, Apache Cassandra, JEE7, AngularJS, Apache Camel, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat Ansible, Netflix OSS.