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About me:
Design technologist based in Berlin (Chilean citizen with freelance visa). MSc in Design Informatics (University of Edinburgh). 4+ years experience in React web development, Python data wrangling, and interactive installations.
Professional Focus:
- Seeking full-time roles in Berlin/remote in tech companies/startups
- Experience in marketing and research projects, aiming to transition to more technically complex products
- Background: Mix of freelance development, consulting, and academic/research positions
- Strong interest in bridging design and technology
Technical Journey:
Started with Arduino/Grasshopper3D (2014) → MSc Design Informatics → Full-stack web development
Languages:
- Spanish (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- German (B1, actively improving)
Core Strengths:
Building maintainable, scalable solutions with focus on non-default interfaces and user-centered design. Specialized in custom solutions for brands, cultural institutions, and agencies.
My ideal job conditions:
- Above 4k net/month, 3.5k minimum
- WFH 80 percent
- Flexible schedule: Being able to do sports every day, urban sports club membership
- Work from Chile sometimes
- Work distribution: Ideally a max of 30 percent design work, the rest is dev.
My publications:
- Conference Paper, Co-author: Push-Pull Energy Futures: Using Design to Discuss Agency in Distributed Energy Systems, Designing Interactive Systems 2023
- Conference Paper, Co-Author: Exploring critical scenarios of algorithmic energy distribution with the Karma Kettle Game, Designing Interactive Systems 2020
- Conference Poster, Co-author: Using Data Visualization to Explore International Trade Agreements, Digital Humanities Conference, 2019
- Book, Co-Author: The Eigengrau Laboratory Book, 2016
- Book: Bienal de Artes Mediales, Catalogue, 2017
- Press: Punto Flotante: Lenguaje del tiempo en el espacio físico urbano, Archdaily México, 2016
Something I'd like to keep undisclosed from potential employers:
- I have diagnosed ADHD and work better from home. I take medication and it helps a lot.
- I think I have autism or something that looks like it. I'm not sure but my symptoms fit.
My stack:
- React
- Python
- Typescript
- Next.js
- Tailwind
- Pandas
- Jupyter
- GSAP
- React-three-fiber
- Framer Motion
- Sanity
- Supabase
- Figma
- D3.js
- Docker
- Git
- Linux
Notable Clients:
- FutureCorp
- Elemental Chile
- Asimov Consulting
- Viapontica AI
- The Egg Assembly
- TrainFES
- School of Informatics, U. of Edinburgh
- School of Engineering, PUC, Chile
- Centro de innovacion Anacleto Angelini, PUC, Chile
Brands I worked with at FutureCorp:
- Mario Testino
- Stink Films
- Saatchi & Saatchi
- Dolce & Gabbana
- JDS Development Group (The Brooklyn Tower website)
- Flemming Watches
- Beige Pill Productions
Academic Background:
MSc Dissertation: "Comfortable Interactions" - Developed and evaluated thermal comfort management tools for energy reduction in office buildings, focusing on sustainable solutions for workplace environments.
Notable Projects at FutureCorp:
- Saatchi & Saatchi: Full deployment pipeline reconstruction (Docker, Azure, Nginx, Strapi, NextJS)
- Luxury/Fashion: D&G Miami hotel project, Mario Testino portfolio
- Real Estate: Brooklyn Tower (JDS Development)
- Various marketing sites: Flemming Watches, Beige Pill Productions, Stink Films
Key achievements: Technical debt resolution, deployment optimization, client relationship management
Current Focus (2024):
- Pursuing Front End Development Engineer role at AWS Commerce Platform (Berlin)
- Have internal referral contact (UX Designer)
- Preparing for online technical assessment (javascript) with emphasis on Amazon Leadership Principles
Here is the job description for the role I'm applying to. Copied on from the original job post:
Front End Development Engineer, AWS Commerce Platform
DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about building high quality user interface and products that users find super efficient and powerful? If so, please read on about the opportunity to set a new standard for internal customer facing platform.
AWS Commerce Platform (CP) provides the back- and front-end services that enable AWS Service teams to sell to AWS customers, as well as allowing AWS customers to purchase AWS Services and to understand and manage their infrastructure costs. Because we sit at the nexus of all AWS Services and end-customers, we work closely across all AWS teams to ensure that we offer a great customer experience.
We are seeking software engineers focused on Web front-end application development, using the latest tools and technologies on the AWS ecosystem. A successful candidate will have a proven track record of turning customer needs into elegant, user-centric designs, as well as implementing those designs in the presentation layer by using smart, clean Web development patterns. UX Design experience is a plus.
As a Front-End Engineer, you will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will push your design and architecture limits by building and delivering production-quality Web user experiences that are secure, accessible, maintainable, scalable, performant, and operationally excellent. Taking pride in both the technical and business contribution of your work, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our systems, our business, and our customers. You will design and implement new features, and be part of a team that is building the future of the cloud.
In this role, you will…
- Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience.
- Own and operate the systems that you build, based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.
- Collaborate closely with UX Designers, Product Managers, and generalist Software Development Engineers on the same team to help define the scope of the product.
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an autonomous team.
- Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product goals, and developing best practices.
- You will design and develop MVC based web applications.
- Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in TypeScript, JavaScript and React JS.
- Design Amazon scale tools to facilitate internal business.
- Build highly available, secure systems that deal with confidential billing data.
- Mentor and support the growth of other developers.
- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale".
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job, but we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. We are an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.
Outside of working on some of the most impactful, cutting-edge technology in the world, what else can you expect when you join AWS?
On-Call Responsibility
As a team, we all share on-call responsibilities. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault-tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience with Web applications.
- Proficiency in foundational tools for Web application development such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript.
- Experience with frameworks for front-end Web application development such as React JS, Angular.
- Experience with front-end testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium, Cypress.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience building rich data-driven web applications by consuming ReSTful services and APIs.
- Experience in developing or participating in UX design reviews.
- Genuinely excited about technology, with a strong interest in learning and playing with the latest technologies, and building compelling Web applications and UIs.
Amazon Leadership principles:
- Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
- Ownership: Leaders are owners. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job.”
- Invent and Simplify: Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by “not invented here.” As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.
- Are Right, A Lot: Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.
- Learn and Be Curious: Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.
- Hire and Develop the Best: (Secondary, according to my contact)
- Insist on the Highest Standards: Leaders have relentlessly high standards — many people may think these standards are unreasonably high. Leaders are continually raising the bar and drive their teams to deliver high quality products, services, and processes. Leaders ensure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
- Think Big: Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.
- Bias for Action: Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking.
- Frugality: Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size, or fixed expense.
- Earn Trust: Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.
- Dive Deep: Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.
- Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit: Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.
- Deliver Results: Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.
- Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer: (Secondary, according to my contact)
- Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility