Matías Gil Echavarría

Software engineer, iOS developer, Backend developer (Ruby on Rails), MS in Computer and Information systems.

Experience

Lead iOS Developer

Bring Global

Leading teams developing iOS banking applications, applying patterns and good practices, participating on team decisions, designing and building reliable solutions and ensuring good performance and quality of the applications.

November 2020 - June 2023

iOS Developer

Mobile Butterfly

Created, improved and fixed company iOS applications usted to support big events needs as attendee check-ins and leads gathering, using available code readers technologies as camera and RFID, NFC readers.

January 2018 - April 2020

Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails)

GVSU - MASL (Mobile Apps and Services Lab)

Led backend side (using Ruby on Rails) of a tech project of a multidiciplinary research group (beeinformed.org). Developed a platform to gather honeybee's hives data to provide scientists with enough information to investigate bee disease.

January 2016 - December 2017

iOS Developer

Motorola Solutions

Worked as intern on the innovation and investigation group, doing some iOS application prototypes to measure the viability and effort needed for future projects.

May 2017 - August 2017

iOS Developer

Mobile Butterfly - Cvent

Created, improved and fixed company iOS applications usted to support big events needs as attendee check-ins and leads gathering, using available code readers technologies as camera and RFID, NFC readers.

January 2015 - April 2016

Software Developer

Intergrupo

Worked on several platforms and applications that the team had including Ruby on Rails and iOS applications.

July 2012 - December 2014

Personal projects

iOS Libraries

EasyDateFormatter

An easy library extending Date class to convert your dates to string. Install it via Cocoa Pods

Source

Education

Grand Valley State University (GVSU) - Michigan, USA

Master of Science
Computer Information Systems
May 2016 - December 2017

Universidad EIA - Medellín, Colombia

Informatics Engineering program
January 2007 - December 2012

Skills

Programming Languages, Tools & more
Languages
  • Spanish: Native
  • English: Professional working proficiency
  • Protuguese: Basic proficency
Knowledge
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • Design Patterns
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Remote work

Interests

  • Technology
  • Sports
  • Videogames

Awards

  • "Outstanding final project" for the master degree.
  • I developed an iOS prototype app to evaluate the viability of a potential application for beekepers where the goal is to gather Varroa mite infestation levels in managed honey bee colonies.

    This project led the organization to have Today a final and application on the App Store

Blog

  • Some learnings, challenges, curiosities and general things from the iOS dev world: BLOG