About

Israel Fermín Montilla is a skilled Information Technology professional with over 12 years of experience in building solutions using FLOSS. He has a strong interest in web development and web services, software and systems architecture, automation and continuous delivery, and programming languages. Israel specializes in web development using FLOSS (django, flask), automation using Jenkins, extreme programming using FLOSS (Python), DevOps practitioner, and command line applications. Currently, Israel is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Careem, a ride-hailing company in Egypt and KSA. He is responsible for writing and reviewing code that implements features to enable the business to operate, ensuring best practices and policies are in place for everything they ship into production, and looking after the overall architecture and performance of their backend systems. Israel has experience working with Nodejs, Typescript, MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Expressjs, AWS, CloudFormation, Python, and Docker. In his previous role, Israel was a Lead Software Engineer at Careem, where he led a team responsible for supporting the tech organization in internal tooling to simplify and improve the lives of their engineers at work. Israel has also worked as a Software Engineer at Careem, where he was part of different teams, including the Customer Experience team and the DevOps team. He has experience working with Springboot, MySQL, Java 8, Docker, and other technologies. Israel holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Information Technology from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in AWS, web development, Terraform, Docker, MySQL, Elasticsearch, search, Python, PHP, Kafka, Jenkins, DevOps, Typescript, Flask, Postgres, infra, Django, test, Spring Boot, NodeJS, and Java. Israel is a skilled Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead with relevant experience in the field.