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I’m Ismael Gerardo Suárez Henderson, an IT professional with a strong track record of leading software development teams, delivering cloud-based solutions, and shaping scalable architectures. I thrive on turning complex requirements into maintainable code, promoting DevOps practices, and guiding teams toward high-quality, testable software that delivers real business value.
I enjoy mentoring colleagues, collaborating with product owners and stakeholders, and staying current with emerging technologies. I’m eager to bring my hands-on experience and strategic mindset to a dynamic team where I can contribute to successful projects and continue growing as a technical leader.
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Work Experience
Team Lead - Full Stack Development & Data Engineering at DEKRA Testing and Certification Spain
October 1, 2024 - PresentResponsible for leading an offshore team of 5 developers (backend, frontend, data and QA) based in Vietnam, ensuring successful delivery of whole software solution and facilitating communication between team, stakeholders and business areas. Ensures best development practices and maintainability/testability; fosters automation for building, testing and infra/logic/data deployments; contributes to technical design decisions and stays up-to-date on emerging technologies.
Software Development Team Lead at EPAM Systems Spain
October 31, 2024 - October 20, 2025Led a backend team of 10 developers distributed across Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia and Spain; managed time-zone challenges, half-day coding with the rest on code reviews, product sessions, ticket documentation and mentoring; promoted best practices with SOLID, maintainability and testability; avoided anti-patterns.
Senior Analyst Developer at Stats NZ
September 30, 2022 - October 20, 2025Built new product features across multiple cloud-based applications using .NET 6/5/6, event-driven architecture, Azure Kubernetes Service and DevOps; authored APIs; wrote Terraform scripts; created Azure DevOps pipelines.
Software Architect / Lead Developer / Senior Software Engineer at Eight Wire Ltd
January 31, 2022 - October 20, 2025Led migration from a monolithic architecture to a modern microservices architecture using containers and AKS; performed architecture design; mentored team; selected technologies and provided high-level effort estimation; hands-on coding across product versions including C#, ASP.NET MVC/WebForms, WCF, JQuery, .NET Framework 4.8 and AngularJS.
Lead Application Developer at Eight Wire Ltd
March 31, 2019 - October 20, 2025Promoted to Lead Application Developer; responsible for product maintenance, new features design (physical and logical), evaluation of new technologies, deployment processes, and Azure infrastructure operation.
Senior Software Developer at Eight Wire Ltd
March 31, 2017 - October 20, 2025Refactored product, designed new software components, adopted WCF and a multi-layer distributed architecture; hands-on coding across product versions and mentoring.
Technical Leader / Senior Developer at Velocity Partners Uruguay (Endava Group)
March 31, 2015 - October 20, 2025Senior Developer, then Technical Leader leading a team of 7 developers; architecture design, requirements analysis, estimates; worked with USA client and distributed teams; SCRUM.
Senior Developer / Developer at S&D System and Developments
April 30, 2012 - October 20, 2025Requirements analysis, component design and development for a key project of the electrical energy sector; contributed to distributed architecture developments.
Developer Junior / Senior at PricewaterhouseCoopers
June 30, 2008 - October 20, 2025Contract to develop a survey system; three-layer architecture with distributed components; web services; .NET 2.0 era.
Programmer Analyst / Senior Developer at Enficor S.A. – Port Consulting
December 31, 2007 - October 20, 2025Analyzed, developed and implemented a system to optimize port terminal scheduling for trucks; three-layer architecture; web services; SQL.
Programmer Analyst / Senior Developer .NET at Silver City Software (Holdec Group)
May 31, 2007 - October 20, 2025Fleet management software with GPS/GIS; distributed architecture; involved in requirements analysis, component design and deployment.
Developer Junior / Senior at Infocorp – Banking Technology Consulting
June 30, 2005 - October 20, 2025Projects on .NET 1.1 and 2.0; Visual Studio 2003/2005; SQL Server 2000/2005; varied banking technology consulting engagements.
Team Lead - Full Stack Development & Data Engineering at DEKRA Testing and Certification Spain
October 1, 2024 - PresentLed an offshore team of 5 developers (backend, frontend, data and QA) to deliver full software solutions, ensuring maintainability, testability and automation. Provided technical direction, design decisions and stayed current with emerging technologies. Hands-on work across API components (NET 8, EF Core 8, SQL Server), frontend components (Angular 16), data components (Python, Spark, Databricks), and infrastructure (Terraform for Azure); cloud workloads on Azure including IoT Hub, Event Hub, App Services, Databricks and more. Used Git, Azure DevOps for CI/CD and Playwright/xUnit for testing.
Software Development Team Lead at EPAM Systems Spain
October 1, 2024 - October 20, 2025Led a backend team of 10 developers distributed across Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Spain and the US client. Balanced hands-on coding with code reviews, product sessions, ticket documentation and mentoring. Promoted SOLID principles and high maintainability/testability, avoiding anti-patterns.
Senior Analyst Developer (contractor) at Stats NZ
September 1, 2022 - October 20, 2025Built new product features across multiple cloud-based applications using .NET 6+, event-driven architecture, and Azure Kubernetes Service; contributed to DevOps pipelines and cloud resource management.
Software Architect / Lead Developer / Senior Software Engineer at Eight Wire Ltd
January 31, 2022 - October 20, 2025Product maintenance and new features; migrated main product from monolith to microservices on AKS; architectural design, mentoring, and hands-on coding across versions 2/3 with .NET Core/Angular; led deployment, cloud infra and CI/CD transitions to Azure.
Senior Developer / Technical Leader at Velocity Partners Uruguay (Endava Group)
March 31, 2015 - October 20, 2025Senior .NET developer leading a team, architecture design, requirements analysis, and SCRUM-based processes; promoted to Technical Leader overseeing distributed team across Uruguay and Argentina.
Software Developer / Software Architect at S&D System and Developments
April 30, 2012 - October 20, 2025Requirements analysis, component design, and distributed architecture development for major Uruguayan client projects.
Developer at PricewaterhouseCoopers
June 30, 2008 - October 20, 2025Developed survey system for Uruguay subsidiary using distributed three-layer architecture; C#, ASP.NET, XML and JavaScript.
Developer at Enficor S.A. – Port Consulting
December 31, 2007 - October 20, 2025Analyzed, developed and implemented systems for port terminal scheduling and resource optimization; three-layer web architecture; SQL Server backend.
Programmer Analyst / Senior Developer .NET at Silver City Software (Holdec Group)
May 31, 2007 - October 20, 2025Fleet management software with GPS/GIS, multi-layer architecture, migration from .NET 1.1 to 2.0; hands-on coding in C#, ASP.NET, WCF, JQuery.
Developer at Infocorp – Banking Technology Consulting
June 30, 2005 - October 20, 2025Developed projects with .NET 1.1 to 2.0; multi-tier web applications, C#, XML, JS; Visual Studio and SQL Server.
Full Stack Development & Data Engineering Team Lead at DEKRA Testing and Certification
October 1, 2024 - PresentLead an offshore team of 5 developers (backend, frontend, data and QA), ensuring successful delivery of software solutions and effective communication between team, stakeholders and business areas. Drive best practices for maintainability and testability, and promote automation across build, test and infra/logic/data deployments. Provide technical direction and stay up-to-date on emerging technologies. Hands-on coding of APIs with .NET 8, EF Core 8 and SQL Server; frontend with Angular 16; data components with Python, Spark and Databricks; infrastructure with Terraform for Azure; test components with xUnit and Playwright. Cloud services include Azure IoT Hub, Event Hub, App Services, Databricks, Function Apps, Application Insights, Storage Accounts. Tools: Git, Azure DevOps, Jira.
Software Development Team Lead at EPAM Systems Spain
October 1, 2024 - October 20, 2025Lead a backend team of 10 developers distributed across Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia and Spain with a US client. Manage time-zone challenges, unblock technical or business-domain issues, and ensure on-time, high-quality deliveries. Hands-on coding for a portion of the day, with code reviews, product sessions, technical sessions, ticket documentation and mentoring for junior members. Promote SOLID principles, maintainability and testability, and avoid anti-patterns aligned with overall architecture. Hands-on work with .NET 6, EF Core 6 and PostgreSQL; use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP); Git; Azure DevOps; Jira.
Senior Analyst Developer (Contractor) at Stats NZ
September 1, 2022 - October 20, 2025Build new product features across multiple cloud-based applications using modern technology platforms and practices (NET 6.0, Event-driven architecture, AKS, DevOps). Hands-on API development with .NET Core/5/6, Swagger and Fluent Validation. Infra management with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps, and container orchestration with AKS on Azure.
Software Architect / Lead Developer / Senior Software Engineer at Eight Wire Ltd
January 31, 2022 - October 20, 2025Led product maintenance and new feature design, migrating the main product from a monolithic architecture to a modern microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service. As Software Architect: design architecture, lead microservices design, technology selection, high-level effort estimation, and database tuning. As Lead Developer: mentor and guide team, hands-on coding across versions (C#, ASP.NET MVC/WebForms, WCF, AngularJS; .NET Framework 4.8 and AngularJS; later .NET Core 3.1/5, TypeScript 3.5, Angular 8). As Software Engineer: deployment activities, cloud infrastructure maintenance, CI/CD adoption.
Senior Developer at Velocity Partners Uruguay (Endava Group)
March 1, 2015 - October 20, 2025Senior .NET Developer transitioning to Technical Leader, leading a team of 7 developers. Responsibilities included architecture design, requirements analysis, solution development and effort estimation. Technologies: EF5 (Code First), ASP.NET MVC 3, JQuery, SVN; Visual Studio 2010; SQL Server 2012; SCRUM.
Software Developer / Architect at S&D System and Developments
April 1, 2012 - October 20, 2025Worked in multiple roles including Programmer Analyst and Software Architect. Tasks included requirements analysis, component design and solution development for key Uruguayan client projects. Technologies included .NET 2.0/4.0, C#, C++, XML, ASP.NET MVC 3, SQL, JavaScript; Web Services, AJAX; Oracle 11; VS 2008/2010; TFS.
Developer at PricewaterhouseCoopers
June 1, 2008 - October 20, 2025Contracted to develop a survey system with three-tier architecture and distributed components. Implemented using .NET 2.0 (C#, ASP.NET), XML, JavaScript; Visual Studio 2003; Microsoft Source Safe; SQL Server 2000.
Software Engineer at Enficor S.A. – Port Consulting
December 1, 2007 - October 20, 2025Designed/implemented a system to schedule truck entry/exit at a major port terminal to optimize resource usage and reduce dispatcher waiting time. Three-layer architecture; Web Services integration; .NET 2.0 (C#, ASP.NET), XML, JavaScript; SQL Server; Ajax.
Programmer Analyst / Senior Developer at Silver City Software (Holdec Group)
May 1, 2007 - October 20, 2025Developed fleet management software with GPS/GIS features, automated reporting and alarms. Worked on distributed architecture; migrated from .NET 1.1 to 2.0; C#, ASP.NET Web Forms, WCF, JQuery; SQL Server; SVN; VS.
Developer (Junior to Senior) at Infocorp – Banking Technology Consulting
June 1, 2005 - October 20, 2025Worked on multiple projects across .NET 1.1 and 2.0 stacks, applying C#, XML, XSL, ASP.NET Web Forms, SQL and JavaScript. Tools included Visual Studio 2003; Microsoft Source Safe; SQL Server 2000.
Education
Bachelor of Information System Analysis and Software at ORT Uruguay University
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011Programmer Analyst (Technical course) at ORT Uruguay University
January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2005Linux Certification Training at ORT Uruguay University
January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2002Graphic Design at Information School
January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1997Bachelor of Information System Analysis and Software (Degree of 4.5 years) at ORT Uruguay University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2011Programmer Analyst (Technical course of 3 years) at ORT Uruguay University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2005Linux Certification Training (Training of 6 months) at ORT Uruguay University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2002Graphic Design Information School at Information School
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1997Bachelor of Information System Analysis and Software (Degree of 4.5 years) at ORT Uruguay University
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2011Programmer Analyst (Technical course of 3 years) at ORT Uruguay University
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2005Linux Certification Training (Training of 6 months) at ORT Uruguay University
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2002Graphic Design at Information School
January 1, 1997 - January 1, 1997Qualifications
Linux Certification Training
January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2002Programmer Analyst (Technical course)
January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2005Graphic Design Information School
January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1997Bachelor of Information System Analysis and Software
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011Bachelor of Information System Analysis and Software (Degree of 4.5 years)
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2011Programmer Analyst (Technical course of 3 years)
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2005Linux Certification Training (Training of 6 months)
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2002Graphic Design Information School
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1997Linux Certification Training
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2002Programmer Analyst
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2005Graphic Design Information School
January 1, 1997 - January 1, 1997Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Education, Telecommunications
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