Dipl.-Ing. Hernan Schmidt

- Defined, agreed and communicated an outcome-focused roadmap based on customer and stakeholder feedback. - Collaborated with the dev team to design and deliver high-quality solutions. - Led the team through a back-end and infra transformation, from creating solutions critical to business continuity, to moving SCC to the public cloud. - Maintained continuous open communication across the organization, in order to drive business outcomes: engineering, PM, technical support, IT, QA, product ops, and more

- Designed and delivered high-quality, tested and usable software solutions based on our Ruby on Rails stack. - Worked on projects across the entire stack: wrote Angular.js applications, implemented Elasticsearch-based features, and leveraged Ansible to manage our production infrastructure, among others. - As Scrum Master, encouraged the team to be self-organized and to live by agile values. - Practiced pair programming and mentored junior engineers. - Participated twice as mentor in Google Summer of Code.

- Took the initial idea from inception to product, with a strong focus on usability - Grew the team and the business, achieving clients in Chile and in the U.S. - Selected by IncubaUC (#6 global university incubator) to go through a one-month program in San Francisco, CA - Raised investment from Wayra, a Telefónica business accelerator, and participated in its 10-month acceleration program - Technology: Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, Sass, responsive design, Heroku, AWS, Ember.js

- Applied Smart Building technologies to reduce energy consumption of existing buildings. - Worked with Arduinos, Raspberry Pis and OpenMTC (m2m/IoT software written in Python) to measure, visualize and analyze energy consumption.

- Developed a project management web application - Included controls for budget, spendings, human resources, tasks and sales, graph generation (statistics and Gantt chart), and idea proposals - Used by DictUC clients, like Hunter Douglas and Chilquinta - Technology: Ruby on Rails

- Third employee - Made application work correctly across the most popular browsers - Set up load testing and integration testing infrastructures - Developed new features - Technology Ruby on Rails, AWS, VirtualBox, Selenium with Webrat, httperf

- Developed a web application that allows users to upload their own videos and schedule them at the times of their choosing - Videos are broadcast on each user's assigned digital cable TV channel - Technology: Ruby on Rails, VLC media player for streaming, ffmpeg

Program consists of Computer Science courses (software engineering, computer architecture, operating systems, databases, data structures and algorithms, networks, game development, artificial intelligence), as well as courses in other areas, such as mathematics, science, and industrial engineering.