Alejandro Villanueva

Senior Adtech | Fullstack Engineer

Mérida, México

About me

10 years of experience in building AdTech solutions for publishers and companies managing hundreds of sites, I have a proven track record of enhancing revenue and optimizing ad operations for one of the largest adtech company in the US.

Full-Stack Development: 10+ years of developing web applications to streamline enterprise processes using Python/Django and JavaScript/NodeJS.

Remote Collaboration: Proven ability to deliver high-quality software solutions while working remotely with startups and distributed teams.

Work Experience

Freestar

Sr. Adtech Engineer

Dec 2020 - Apr 2024

Had the opportunity to work on the Web SDK Team improving their technology learned multiple new Technologies working there like Java/Spring, Vue.JS, Airflow designed and managed full featured projects like Identity testing framework to evaluate providers performance, managed to reduce the SDK size by 50% porting code libraries to vanilla JS, contributed to open source as part of my work.
Skills:
- Vue.js
- Javascript
- Java/Spring
- GCP
- Jira
- Technical documents creation
Ranker

Adtech Engineer

Nov 2017 - Oct 2020

Main Adtech developer taking care of everything related to ads on site from video/header bidding/GDPR etc. managed to migrate custom pubfood implementation to Prebid.js increasing CPMs along the way.
Skills:
- Vue.Js
- Javascript
- Python
- Agile
- Postgres
- Docker
MonetizeMore

Adtech/Web Developer

Jun 2015 - Oct 2017

Joined really early stage in the company when they started building software to improve their ad operations where i was responsible for building new tools for ad ops, as well as do research and development for ground breaking technologies, here i helped to establish React as the main front-end framework for rich interfaces, built the early version that made possible to the ad ops team to manage hundreds of sites for header bidding on the Prebid.JS framework by building an app to configure ad slots, bidders and publish scripts into the AWS CDN. As part of the job also learned how DFP works and how header biddings works in general becoming the main Solutions Engineer for ad ops and clients when issues needed to be escalated to the dev team.
Skills:
- React.js
- Python
- Django
- Javascript
- Prebid.JS
Method Exists

Full Stack Developer

Apr 2014 - Jun 2015

Collaborated to develop a data-rich application that had to be capable of delivering vast amounts of data to be displayed and edited in real time using web sockets. We had to build Web Forms that contained several complex fields per page
Skills:
- NodeJs
- ES5
- RactiveJs
- MongoDb
Pixfirst

Web Engineer

Aug 2012 - Mar 2014

I worked as Software Engineer working with Python/Django framework working with back-end as front end, interesting features i had the opportunity to implement FB sdk to create FB albums using FB API and also a API integration with a crowdsourcing platform(CrowdFlower) to automate photo tagging. As part of the job i had to learn new technologies like django-cms, Backbone, Handlebars.js, between others.
Skills:
- Python
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- Django

Education

Universidad de Valladolid Yucatan A.C.

2004 - 2009

Computer Systems Engineering

Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Django
Python
Vue.js
HTML
CSS
Tailwind
Node
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Git