@mjimenez98

Miguel Jimenez

Me!

About Me

Senior Computer Science Student at Concordia University. I have interned twice at GitHub and once at the Montreal start-up E-Panneur as a Rails web developer. I have developed a special relationship with REST, APIs and building and coming up with exciting ideas. I like to think this software development path started when my godfather gave me a PlayStation 2 🎮 when I was 5. Since then, I have not stopped playing video games, which led me to create and think of spin-offs and mods I could write. And to be able to do that I needed to know how to code, so here I am 🙋‍♂️️.

Besides coding and video games, music, movies, traveling and soccer are my jam.

Timeline

Software Engineering Intern - Sponsors

GitHub - Montreal, Quebec (Remote)

Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

• Designed and created a Slack bot that allows more than 500 developers to interact with merge queues via Slack.

• Sketched and implemented over 5 responses for the bot using the Slack’s Block Kit Builder. These included multiple formats like modals, attachments and messages.

• Among the features developed, there were obtaining the state of the queue, and adding pull requests to the queue using Slack commands and modals. These are actions that are used on a daily basis for almost every deployment.

• Maintained aspects of GitHub Sponsors including adding measures in the onboarding process to comply with OFAC policies.

• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Express, Slack Web API.

Software Engineering Intern - Marketplace

GitHub - San Francisco, California

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

• Created a RESTful microservice to categorize more than 150 GitHub Apps using machine learning. This has made the number of apps in Marketplace double.

• Wrote unit tests to safeguard the service’s expected behavior.

• Managed the project along with my team by creating and tracking issues, prioritizing tasks and evaluating results.

• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, GraphQL, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes.

Amazon Student Prime Ambassador (Contract)

Student Life Network & Parent Life Network - Montreal, Quebec

Aug 2018 - Feb 2019

• Increased awareness of the Prime Student membership and its benefits to students by having more than 250 interactions every week.

• Hosted and partnered with clubs and associations to create over 15 events on campus.

• Used a marketing approach of digital, experiential, and peer-to-peer tactics to reach as many students as possible.

Software Intern

E-Panneur - Montreal, Quebec

May 2017 - Aug 2017

• Developed a RESTful web service with tools for administrators to manage incoming orders and shipments.

• Processed data to develop a dashboard with graphs and tables for clear financial statements.

• Worked closely with founder and engineering lead in an open concept environment, which allowed to learn about management, customer service, innovation and setting short, medium and long-term goals.

• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Git, JIRA.

Bachelor of Computer Science

Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec

Sep 2016 - May 2021

• In 2018, at the hackathon ConUHacks III, made calls to different APIs to recommend activities based on geolocation.

• In 2017, At the hackathon ConUHacks II, built a Twitter bot that would scan tweets containing a hashtag, and reply to them.

• In freshman year, participated in the student club Space Concordia where I redesigned and implemented an interface (GUI) used for visualizing and controlling a space rover for the University Rover Challenge (URC).