Systems Engineer / Full Stack Developer

About Me


I'm Hernán R., a full-stack engineer based in Venezuela with 10 years building scalable web applications. I work across the entire stack: from infrastructure and backend systems to modern frontend interfaces, I'm happiest when solving complex technical problems.

Skills


Frontend


React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS.

Experience building responsive user interfaces, working with complex state management (Redux), and integrating RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints.

Familiar with React Server Components and Next.js page-router based applications.

Have implemented i18n (internationalization) for multi-language support in web applications.

Live Video


Worked with media servers including nginx-rtmp, OvenMediaEngine, and Wowza.

Experience with live video streaming technologies such as WebRTC and RTMP to build real-time applications (multi-user chat, streaming).

Implemented custom live-video business logic: RTMP authentication, transcoding, clustering, and real-time streaming performance monitoring.

Backend


Node.js, Express, RESTful APIs, Go.

Experience building containerized services, APIs and microservices that expose observability metrics and health checks and are deployed to production environments.

Databases


MySQL / MariaDB, Redis, CouchDB.

Experience designing and optimizing database schemas, writing complex queries for dashboards and reports, and implementing caching strategies to improve performance.

Experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ and Redis Pub/Sub to coordinate asynchronous tasks and real-time communication between services.

DevOps & Cloud


Docker, CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins), AWS, Ansible, Git.

Experience in containerization, building CI/CD pipelines, and deploying applications to cloud platforms like AWS. Familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible for automating server provisioning and configuration.

Experience with cloud CI/CD providers and self-hosted Jenkins on Windows Server environments.

Experience


Freelance
Maturín, Venezuela

2018 - Present

  • Have worked independently for various clients over the years, participating in diverse projects including real-time streaming, multi-user chat services, and Ruby on Rails APIs.

Servicios Integrales Leimar, C.A
Maturín, Venezuela

Full Stack Developer | Jul 2023 - Aug 2025

  • Developed internal ERP system using Next.JS, MySQL, RabbitMQ.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design scalable solutions.
  • Integrated Apache Solr for search across company documentation.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.

Projects


PSeInt Web

PSeInt interpreter compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten, running entirely in the browser with a Monaco-based editor.

EmscriptenWebAssemblyNext.jsMonaco

Contact


Feel free to reach out to me via email at hernan@hernanruiz.net.