Experience

Oct 2026 – Present

VP of Engineering

Mensis Mentor · Nice, France

Leading the company's entire technology area end to end: from clients' requirements and needs to solutions running in production. Mensis is a Digital Twins platform that clones the experience and judgement of the best leaders so teams can consult them 24/7 in Slack, Teams or WhatsApp. Full-time since October 2026, after working with Mensis part-time since mid-2022.

Jan 2020 – Oct 2026

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Symphony.com · Nice, France

Worked closely with multidisciplinary teams building financial market solutions integrated into the Symphony platform.

• Designed, built and maintained test automation frameworks for a multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Google) with Jenkins and CircleCI.
• UI/E2E automation with Cucumber/BDD, WebdriverIO and Robot Framework; API testing with REST Assured and JBehave.
• Accessibility testing (Axe-core, VoiceOver, ChromeVox), visual testing with Storybook and performance testing with JMeter.
• Defined release processes (sign-offs), quality processes, test plans and strategies for many products.
• Led quality teams across Vietnam, Brazil and India.

Mar 2018 – Dec 2019

QA Automation Engineer

Growth Acceleration Partners · Cartago, Costa Rica

Test automation for the Zenoss project (monitoring software and devices).

• Created, reviewed and maintained automated UI tests in JavaScript/Node.js, Python and Ruby with Selenium, NightwatchJS and Cucumber.
• Integrated the automation framework into the CI/CD process (Jenkins, Docker, GitHub, Jira, TestRail).
• Provided training and coaching in test automation and led workshops.

Dec 2016 – Feb 2018

Chatbots Developer (Watson IBM, API.AI Google)

Testing Software · Cartago, Costa Rica

• Backend work on a cognitive mobile application for Banco Atlántida with Watson IBM.
• Set up a replication environment with Apache Kafka across several Linux brokers.
• Android and Cordova applications, including a barcode-reading app integrated with the Nimbus store.
• Built a cognitive self-service kiosk prototype for fast food using chatbots, NLP and a Raspberry Pi.

Aug 2014 – Dec 2016

QA Engineer

Indigo Telecom · Cartago, Costa Rica

QA services (project PACE) for U.S. customers, covering IT solutions and networking devices (gateways).

• Manual, regression, sanity and black-box testing; bug tracking and documentation of testing processes.
• Built a Java automation framework with SSH, Telnet and serial connections to testbeds, Selenium or Mechanize for UI, email reports, logs, screenshots and video evidence.

Jan 2014 – Jul 2014

Software Developer

Universidad de Costa Rica · San Pedro, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica

Pris-Lab: system for the manual annotation of soccer matches from television signals.

Feb 2013 – Dec 2013

Computer Engineering

Tecnológico de Costa Rica · Cartago, Costa Rica

Electronic voting: validation and testing of the project’s hardware components.

Feb 2013 – Aug 2013

Researcher

Tecnológico de Costa Rica · Cartago, Costa Rica

Nanotechnology Research Program: design and construction of a small robot using Nitinol.