Marketplace · Product discoveryIn progress
umarket
Product discovery, group-platform integrations, search evaluation, and technical leadership in a growing marketplace.
Growth & DiscoveryView case study
Senior Software Engineer · Paraguay
I build reliable digital products for complex ecosystems.
15+ years building and modernizing digital products—from large-scale publishing migrations and marketplace reliability to backend architecture and technical leadership.
Based in Paraguay · Interested in remote and hybrid opportunities
SYSTEMS / PEOPLE / PRODUCTProducts that workClear systems. Useful outcomes.
ReliabilityIntegrationPeople01 — 030115+years building software
025M+news articles migrated to Arc XP
0399.9%measured uptime after migration
044engineers supported as acting tech lead
Selected work
Complex challenges, practical outcomes.
From educational platforms and high-volume publishing archives to marketplace reliability, product discovery, and team leadership.
Marketplace · Reliability
Hendyla
Helped move the legacy marketplace infrastructure and improve measured uptime from approximately 70–80% to 99.9%.
70–80% → 99.9%View case study
Digital media · Technical leadership
La Tribuna
Part-time consulting and acting technical leadership for a 3–4 person team adopting Arc XP Fusion.
3–4 developers guidedView case study
Digital media · Publishing platform migration
ABC Color
Led the migration of 5M+ news articles to Arc XP and helped build the redesigned site and its supporting services.
5M+ articles migratedView case study
Backend · Infrastructure · Android
Sendit
Improved MySQL stability, helped move an on-premises system to AWS, and supported a PHP upgrade that cut memory use by up to 50%.
Up to 50% less memoryView case study
Educational technology · Web development
ABC Color — Education & Web
Connected interactive SCORM learning content with Moodle, then improved ABC Color’s web platform, caching, and image storage.
SCORM · Moodle · AWS S3View case study
How I work
Pragmatic by design. Curious by default.
I like to understand the real constraint first, then help a team choose the simplest dependable path forward.
Current toolkit
Currently exploring OpenCode independently.
Reliability is product work
Observability, thoughtful integrations, and resilient infrastructure are part of the customer experience.
Leadership is shared context
I help teams coordinate, make decisions, and grow confidence with the systems they own.
Use new tools with intent
I work with Cursor and GitHub Copilot, and contribute to Spec-Driven Development through Spec-kitti, ITTI’s in-house framework based on GitHub Spec Kit.
A little about me
Hands-on engineering, with a wider view.
I’m José Manuel González Ricart, a Senior Software Engineer based in Luque, Paraguay. My experience spans educational technology, digital publishing, e-commerce, and marketplaces—from server administration and integrations to software architecture and team guidance. I enjoy staying hands-on while keeping sight of the product and the people building it.
LinkedInExperience
- Oct 2024 — NowSenior Software DeveloperITTI · Hendyla and umarket
- Oct 2018 — Oct 2024Lead Developer & Software ArchitectABC Color
- Feb — Sep 2018Software EngineerSendit
- Sep 2011 — Jan 2018Web DeveloperABC Color
Education
Information Systems · Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Languages
Spanish (native) · English (conversational)
Get in touch
Have a thoughtful engineering challenge?
I’m interested in remote and hybrid opportunities where product thinking, reliable systems, and collaborative engineering matter.
Luque, Paraguay