👋🏻 Hi there folks, I am

Christian José
Torrealba Rondón

Product-oriented professional focused on systems engineering and design thinking skills to deliver user-centric solutions that drive impact.

About me

A passionate technologist in creating digital experiences. I enjoy participating in all project stages, from conception and beyond. ☀️ 🏖️ 🎡 🍦 🕹️ 🏃🏻 🐶 🇻🇪 🇦🇷 🇪🇸

Interests

Agile Leadership Augmented Reality AR User Research Artificial intelligence AI Product and Service Design Data Visualization 2D Animation

Aptitudes 🧘🏻‍♂️

  • Creative thinker at facing challenges.
  • Dedicated to continuous learning.
  • Fascinated by products and service design.
  • Encourage synergies and collaboration.
  • Goals-oriented and self-motivated.
  • Good listener with a strong work ethic.

Languages 💬

* Polishing them up continuously

💃🏻 Spanish Native speaker

💂🏻 English Professional (B2+)

🥐 French Elementary (A2)

Showcased projects.

Presented at International Conferences. See additional details on LinkedIn.

Qlik Connections Global Conference © SDG Group

🇺🇲 Dallas TX, USA · May 2019

Augmented Intelligence for Data Visualization Analytics

Frontend Software Engineer

Collaborated with engineers to create an AR/MR user experience, empowering them to make data-driven decisions through an app to visualize sales trends and a chatbot for data visualization.

VueJS NodeJS Qlik Sense Hub SignalR Client DialogFlow AR.js

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6th Congress of Cartographic Science © PDVSA

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina · June 2012

Representation of geographical data related to the Venezuelan Petroleum Industry by using Keyhole Markup Language

Product Developer Engineer

Worked alongside geologists and geographers to improve the accessibility and usability of geographical data for the Venezuelan petroleum industry; by automatically creating and editing KML/KMZ files.

Google Earth / Maps CESIUM 3D Geospatial KML / KMZ ArcGIS Global Mapper

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American Association of Petroleum Geologists © PDVSA

🇺🇲 Houston TX, USA · August 2011

Integrated System of Opportunity Portfolios

Product Software Engineer · Data Analyst

Partnered with a team of engineers, economists, geologists, and geographers in creating and launching a real-time web application to facilitate economic scenario analysis and effectively visualize both geoscience and financial data.

HTML5 / jQuery / CSS PHP MySQL PostgreSQL R Studio Pentaho BI ETL / DWH HighCharts ArcGIS

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Technologies 🔮

Some techs I used to play with. Examples on GitHub.

word cloud of technologies I used to play with
Tech knowledge
  • 💅 Frontend (Web applications, UIs, Tooling).
  • 📊 Data (Modeling, ETL, Visualization).
  • 👾 Backend (APIs and services).

Labs.

Collection of projects, PoCs, and every other assessment I find interesting to showcase.
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Project @Author

BI Project: Adventure Works Cycles

This project aims to enhance knowledge creation by optimizing data management, empowering data-driven decision-making, and extracting value from information.

Data Analysis / Visualization Business Intelligence Databases ETL / DWH Data-driven applications

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Project @Contributor

Circuitos

Reference platform to discover your artistic and cultural interests. Aimed at people looking for new experiences and eager to share their art with the community.

Product Design User Experience A/B Testing Prototyping Usability Design Thinking User Research

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Project @Author

Idea: Cultural activities app

We provide an accessible platform that facilitates participation in cultural events and activities by creating a cultural network tailored to each individual's preferences.

e-Business Lean Startup Design Thinking Empathy Maps Business Model Canvas Prototyping SEO / SEA Digital Marketing

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Assessment @Author

TV movie-streaming-like webapp

Full-stack project showcasing how React and Express work together to deliver a movie-tv-like application. Apart from implementing an API RESTFul, it includes a simple CD/CI process leveraged on GitHub actions and Docker.

FullStack Development ReactJS / NodeJS Tailwind CSS Unit / E2E Testing Jest / Cypress TypeScript Docker GitHub Actions CI/CD process

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Assessment @Author

Restaurant's browser application

Mini application to see the closest restaurants and their menus/products. It's built by using React+TS and also the Geolocation API.

Front-end development ReactJS Tailwind CCS Vite Geolocation API Data persistence - LocalStorage Daisy UI TypeScript

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PoC @Author

Pokédex PWA application

Progressive web application (PWA) built using Svelte, a modern JavaScript framework. It leverages the Pokémon API to provide a comprehensive and engaging Pokédex experience, data persistence with LocalStorage, the SpeechSynthesis, and Plotly charts.

Front-end development Svelte Bulma CSS Vite+PWA SpeechSynthesis API Data persistence Plotly JavaScript Open Source Graphing Library

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Assessment @Author

Book collection

Basic book collections web application that allows you to add, edit, and track your book purchases.

Front-end development ReactJS Styled components Vite TypeScript

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Assessment @Author

Data Visualization - Error reporting chart

Let's create an interactive chart for a BI application using the D3.js library. This chart should allow users to visualize data by day, week, month, or year.

Front-end development VueJS D3/C3 Vuetify Vuex - State management SASS NodeJS - Express

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Assessment @Author

Manage employees dashboard

Employee management dashboard with CRUD functionality (Create, Read, Update, Delete) on the client-side.

Front-end development VueJS Material Design Vuetify Vuex - State management

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Assessment @Author

Interactive Weekly Appointment Scheduler

Developed a solution to streamline the appointment scheduling process. This interactive weekly scheduler with daily slots reduces scheduling conflicts and improves efficiency.

Front-end development VueJS Axios Bulma CSS / SASS Vuex - State management

Tools 🎨

A brief compilation of tools I have used for: Ideation, Prototyping, Comms., Monitoring, Documentation, etc.
Colaborative

Jira Confluence SourceTree GitHub AWS Slack Microsoft Teams Google Meets Miro Postman Sentry Grafana

Prototyping

Adobe Illustrator Adobe XD Sketch Zeplin Figma InVision Video iMovie

Business Intelligence

SQL / NoSQL clients Pentaho BI SSAS / SSIS PowerBI Qlik Tableau R Studio

Professional Experiences.

An overview of contributions done as an engineer, in three (3) different countries so far.

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SoftwareDataProductUser Experience

Background 💼

Solutions Engineer

Stuart Delivery Logistic Services

Barcelona, Spain Oct 2020 - Jun 2023

Contributor to crafting technological solutions that optimized customer experiences in last-mile logistics. (Backoffices for streamlining external API integrations, monitoring tools, and product design development).

ReactJS TypeScript NodeJS Jest Enzyme Cypress GraphQL RESTful API Sequelize Grafana Jira MySQL Tableau Git Figma CloudWatch S3 X-Ray Jenkins

Frontend Developer Architect

Zank Financial Financial Services

Barcelona, Spain Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

Led the front-end architecture of a fintech web app, driving compliance, user experience, and functionality through integrations and improvements following product requirements.

VueJS NodeJS HTML5 CSS/SASS RESTful API Trello MySQL Slack Postman Elastic

Frontend Software Engineer

SDG Group Business Intelligence and Data Analysis

Barcelona, Spain Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

Automated front-end workflows and crafted a data-driven chatbot UI with interactive visualizations and an augmented reality mashup app to visualize sales trends, leveraging modern web technologies and chatbot frameworks.

VueJS Angular NodeJS HTML5 CSS/SASS RESTful API Webpack Qlik Sense Hub Git Jira

Frontend User Interface Developer

Kapsch TrafficCom AG Intelligent Transportation Solutions

Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 2016 - Oct 2017

Developed a web-based back-office platform for a vehicle free-flow tolling system, streamlining toll collection management across various aspects: Customer management, Payment processing, Tag device management, Vehicle monitoring, and others.

Angular NodeJS HTML5 CSS/SASS RESTful API Swagger JasperReports SQL Server Microsoft TFS

Product Software Engineer

Petroleum of Venezuela (PDVSA) Energy and Hydrocarbons

Caracas, Venezuela May 2011 - Jan 2016

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to conceive, design, develop, and deliver a real-time web app for economic scenario analysis, leveraging GIS and data intelligence tools to visualize, analyze, and model geoscience, financial, and hydrocarbon production data, empowering data-driven decision-making.

jQuery PHP MySQL HTML5 CSS/SASS HighCharts R MySQL PostgreSQL Pentaho BI ArcGIS Adobe Creative Suite

IT Systems Responsible

Savings and Loan Association of Miranda’s Public Employees (CAPEM) Non-profit Finances

Los Teques, Venezuela Nov 2009 - May 2011

Spearheaded the design and development of a web-based CRM, integrating departments to enhance customer service management and crafting a self-service kiosk for automated queue management and balance inquiries.

jQuery HTML5 Flash Action Script 3 PHP MySQL

Training 📝

Specific courses that are focused either on soft skills or a particular industry.
Soft skills
  • • Management 3.0 certification.
  • • Oratory and effective speaking - Speak up training.
  • • Emotional intelligence at work - Udemy.
  • • 13 steps to public speaking - Udemy.
Digital competences
  • • Fundamentals of digital marketing - Google.
  • • How to build digital products - Product School.
  • • Game development with HTML5 and Phaser.
Hydrocarbons
  • • Exploration and production of oil and gas for engineers.
  • • Economic evaluation of petroleum investment projects.
  • • Key management indicators and strategic planning.

Diplomas, memberships, and studies.

Educational path I have chosen for my career development.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) logo

Diploma Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) System Thinking for Project Management

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Venezuelan College of Engineers logo

Membership · Nº 209752 Venezuelan College of Engineers

Society of Petroleum Engineers logo

Membership · Nº 4403695 Society of Petroleum Engineers


Studies 📚

Educational path and official certifications. Refer to my profile at Credly.

Specialization Spain

Expert Diploma in Tech Management

Technical Leadership Polytechnic University of Valencia Sep 2023 - Present

Master Spain

Master in e-Business Management

Digital Business Management and Startups University of Barcelona Oct 2019 - Jun 2020

Postgraduate Spain

Postgraduate in Business Intelligence

Data Engineering Escoles Gimbernat i Tomàs Cerdà · Autonomous University of Barcelona Nov 2017 - Jul 2018

Bootcamp Argentina

Diploma in UX Design and Research

Digital Product Development and User Research Digital House Coding School Mar 2017 - Jul 2017

Postgraduate Venezuela

Diploma in Business Management

Leadership, Management, and Negotiation Metropolitan University (UNIMET) Sep 2014 - Jul 2015

Specialization Venezuela

Diploma in Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Central University of Venezuela Sep 2013 - Apr 2014

Bachelor of Systems Engineering Venezuela

Degree in Systems Engineering

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Experimental and Polytechnic University of the Armed Forces (UNEFA) Sep 2004 - Sep 2009