Daniel Pic

I'm Daniel Velerdas

Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention Consultant, API Engineer, Full-Stack

About me

Daniel Pic

Computer Engineer with experience in the development, maintenance, and improvement of system integration solutions.

Throughout my career, I have worked with APIs, databases, automation tools, and security protocols, developing scalable and reliable solutions for international teams in sectors such as finance and telecommunications.

I am motivated by new challenges that allow me to deepen my knowledge in both technical and functional areas, guided by best practices, a continuous improvement mindset, and a strong focus on quality and optimization.

Outside of my professional work, I maintain an active interest in Artificial Intelligence and its practical applications, as well as in finances, particularly in personal finance and investment. I regularly enjoy researching, learning, and staying up to date in these areas.

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Professional Experience

  1. Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention Consultant - Banco Santander

    - Workflows planification and management using Control-M, starting from public and private lists loading to generation of suspected fraud alerts. - Monitorization of fraud detection system with Oracle’s suite: FCCM, EDQ, IPE, OBIEE, Weblogic, Oracle SQL Developer, etc., ensuring availability, data integrity and proper functioning of the alert generation system . - Formating and validation of clients and payments files according to SEPA (ISO20022), SWIFT MT/MX and FEDWIRE standards, ensuring their proper processing. - Development of tools and automations using Python and Bash, resulting in productivity increase on repetitive tasks. - Management and testing of Postman's microservices APIs collections, ensuring successful integration and proper functioning of services. - Preparation of technical documentation and evidence extraction of changes and implementations, contributing to internal regulatory compliance and enabling trazability of deployments. - Security protocols implementation, including creation, signing, and verification of digital certificates in order to estabilsh secure connections between services, ensuring regulatory compliance and integrity in comunications.

  2. API Engineer in uXcale

    - Development of an introductory training program for APIs. - Design and specification of internal APIs for employee and activity management. - Documentation on numerous API concepts and various technologies, such as OpenAPI, Apigee, Mulesoft, gRPC, AsyncAPI, and GraphQL, among others. - Implementation of APIs using different environments such as SpringBoot, NodeJS or GraphQL. - Conducting tests and testing with Jest, Supertest, Junit 5 and Mockito. - Utilization of API clients such as Postman, Advanced Rest Client, or Insomnia.

  3. API OB Integration Engineer in Telefónica

    - Project integration between Telefónica Kernel Global and Vivo Brazil team. - Involvement in the analysis and design processes of 4P APIs. - Significant contributions to different phases of the API lifecycle. - Development and deployment of different integration tools using Node JS, ReactJS and Express. - Formal documentation of all processes undertaken, as well as test case generation.

  4. Mobile Developer in Pixel Innova

    - App Development on Android and iOS. - Focus on implementing key functions, such as reading and interpreting QR codes. - Efficient data management among applications. - Integration with a WebService.

Projects

Opo Finder. Compilation of Official Bulletins

Full-stack application developed using React and Node JS based in the compilation of state, community and provincial official bulletins in order to make easier for users to check all of them from the same platform. It has a responsive design in order for a correct visualization from multiple devices.

"Opo Finder. Compilation of Official Bulletins" GitHub Repository

  • ReactJS

  • NodeJS

  • Javascript

Full-Stack Open Course from University of Helsinki

This course serves as an introduction to modern web application development with JavaScript and Typescript. The main focus is on building single page applications with ReactJS that use REST APIs built with Node.js. The course also contains a section on GraphQL, a modern alternative to REST APIs. The course covers testing, configuration and environment management, the use of databases for storing the application’s data amongst other things.

"Full-Stack Open Course from University of Helsinki" GitHub Repository

  • ReactJS

  • NodeJS

  • Javascript

  • Typescript

  • GraphQL

To-Do Web Application

The idea of this project was making a simple web application using React JS to get familiar with this framework. This app consists in a list of To-do tasks, with a title and status. All tasks created will be displayed at the main page, from where you can create new tasks, update and delete existing ones.

"To-Do Web Application" GitHub Repository

  • ReactJS

  • Javascript

Axpe Employees API

Final exercise from a training period on apification. Rest API service for controlling employees of a company. It includes its OpenAPI 3.0 specification and implementation in Spring Boot.

"Axpe Employees API" GitHub Repository

  • Java

  • Springboot

  • Swagger

MovieFav. Movie List App

Mobile Application developed for a technical test, using the Retrofit and Room libraries to read data from an API and to manage a local DB that allows data persistence.

"MovieFav. Movie List App" GitHub Repository

  • Android

  • Kotlin