Juan Moreno
Skilled technology expert, passionate about day to day improvement.Juan Solutions is my professional web presence aimed at showcasing my passion in technology. I am interested in contributing to the tech community around me through workshops, volunteering or simply attending social meetups, or hackathons.
Professional overview
Juan Moreno is a skilled technology expert with experience developing standalone and web based solutions. Juan has experience working with the government sector, Manufacturing Execution Systems, E-commerce, Travel, and Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Juan obtained his undergraduate degree in Computing from the University of Guelph and has since used his skills to work alongside various non-profits, startups and multi-national companies such as Amazon and Expedia.
Who I am
Favorate quotes
How much effort you give is something only you can control.
Favorite mindset
Remember Kaizen: any change for the better one-time or continuous, large or small, if applied enough times will help you create the future you are after.
Current full time occupation : Senior Backend Software Engineer
Location : Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada
Email : juan_moreno -at- juansolutions.com
I tend to collect hobbies, let me know if any of the below interest you as well!
Guitar playing : Currently improving finger picking techniques.
Chess : ~1100 Elo
Running : 10km races, hoping to do a half marathon someday.
Machine learning : Looking forward in utilizing it in a project.
Philosophy: Interested in the why, how's of the world.
What I do
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Working in front end web development since 2005. Freelanced examples here.
FULL STACK DEV
I am a full stack developer across various languages and technologies.
CONSULTING
Vast experience consulting on various technical projects from requirements gathering to live site operational support tasks.
MOBILE APP DESIGN
Android and iOS platform experience. Ionic framework for multi platform applications.
Entrepreneurship
Global Techstars Startup grant winner. Involved in startup meetups, hackathons and workshops. Solo, co-founder, multiple founding team members experience.
SCALING SUPPORT
Have worked with AWS/Google Cloud services extensively to utilize cloud computing resources and services to scale web services and business needs.
Incident Management
Experience in high stress situations helping coordinate actions to find resolution and providing status updates.
Simplifying complexity
Experience in identifying ways to break down complex systems into smaller components.
SOME INTERESTING NUMBERS
1,611
Code commits (as of 2022)
7
Hackathons
6
Companies founded
MY PROGRAMMING SKILLS
Programming skills below are languages/frameworks which I am comfortable using during a hackathon or workshop in order to get some project off the ground.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES
For full view of professional experiences please checkout my linked in profile at:
For other interesting experiences checkout some timelines below:
Entrepreneurship projects
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Company on track
Daily recommendations to help your company succeed
Clear recommendations with smart dashboards to give you a pulse of how your company is trending.
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Vidaah
Vet pet care Tele-triage
Vidaah makes accessing a veterinarian quick, easy and affordable via chat or video calls.
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On Focus Now
Helping you remember what matters
E-commerce website providing products to help people remember what matters to them.
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Realty Info
Real Estate buying/selling/appraising platform
Did not pursue after opportunity to start work with Amazon full time was secured.
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Gryphonade
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - University of Guelph
Pitched Gryphonade and was awarded second place by local community judging panel. Gryphonade is a school branded energy drink business model. Did not go forward as upfront costs to move ahead was later analyzed to be too great a risk for us to follow.
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Juan Solutions
Juan Solutions - Web Freelancing
Started a freelancing business providing high quality web development solutions for customers. I was able to secure several consistent clients for further projects and officially closed off Juan Solutions as a freelancing business after graduating from the University of Guelph.
Hackathons & workshops
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MIT Sloan Hack for Inclusion 2021 [VIRTUAL]
Diversity, equity & inclusion related challenges
Worked on designing for equity through self-awareness of biases while developing solutions with a community vs for a community. Focused on food desert problems by creating a community hub that can serve tail end populations. Showcased how solving for extremes benefits everyone.
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Techstars Global Startup Weekend
COVID-19 Online Canada
First place winner with team Rest Assured. Rest Assured creates automatic notifications to loved ones for patients in healthcare institutions. Removes burden on nurses answering phone calls and instead allows nurses to focus on direct patient care.
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Women in Tech World - Sault Ste. Marie
Supporting workshop on promoting Women in tech
Worked alongside other attendees to come up with My Job is So Cool Speaker Series idea to help showcase women in tech and provide networking opportunities.
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Expedia Hackathons - Cruise, Air, Tech variants
Internal Expedia Hackathons with public APIs
Worked on several hackthon projects internaly to improve customer Cruise, Air and tech capabilities of Expedia.
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Encourage me productivity app
Urban airship Hackathon - Portland
Pitched Gryphonade - a school branded energy drink business model. Learned various entrepreneurship models and practices for getting a business started.
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Sphero H2O first place winners
Sphero Hackathon - Seattle City Hall
Utilized bluetooth interface to develop an Android and iOS Sphero H2O game. We filmed a short promotional video showcasing Sphero catch and release water game we developed. Awarded 1st place at Hackathon.
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Business and Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
University of Guelph
Awarded second place based on business plan presentation and product development.
Professional Experiences
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2020
Recharge Payments - Senior Backend Software Engineer
Creating solutions to allow customers to seamlessly scale their subscription business.
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2019
McDougall Energy - Senior Solutions Developer Analyst
Creating technology solutions to support all business needs to help serve customers. Utilize Microsoft technology stack to support customer facing portal, data transfer between systems, customizations to Enterprise Resource Planning system and web based solutions to optimize everything from fuel delivery to customer billing.
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2016
Expedia - Software Development Engineer 2
Worked in the Insurance space of Expedia. Supported various full stack services and I primarily work on our test automation stack in order to assure quality across our projects.
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2012-2014
Amazon - Software Developer Engineer
Worked in the Product Compliance space of Amazon and worked on various distributed systems to assure products are shipped safely to customers.
Worked in the machine learning Product Compliance space before graduating from University of Guelph.
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2011
ASECO Integrated Systems - Software Developer Engineer Coop
Worked as part of the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) at ASECO assuring software solutions developing solutions for product tracking, quality management, and product genealogy.
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2010
Statistics Canada - Systems Development Programmer
Worked as part of a full stack team that provides data processing solutions for census data.
Volunteer
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2020
Twin City Chess Club
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2019-2023
Hola North - Northern Ontario Latin-Hispanic Association
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2017-2023
StartUp Sault
Studies
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2013
Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Guelph
Bachelor of Computer Science COOP program with an area of application in Philosophy.
Blog
Freebies - thanks for visiting the site
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Web Development
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Start with a template - Themeforest
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Machine Learning
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Python library reference
Big list of library resources to keep in mind: