# Ruben Alvarez Reyes

> Software Developer at General Motors

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rubenalvarezreyes

3.5+ years working in the IT / Software Industry.

Daily hands-on in API management with products such as IBM API Connect and Microsoft Azure APIM. Administer servers along with PKI on IBM DataPower, IBM WebSphere Liberty, and Red Hat OpenShift (kubernetes). Architectural planner for network delivery in infrastructure across gateways & load balancers.

Work closely with UX designers to develop UI in AngularJS with team to automate / streamline service requests internal to company. Develop / maintain backend applications in Java Spring Boot to facilitate those front-ends and communicate with various API's internal to company to provide those streamlined service requests.

Migrated custom application for service requests internal to company to an industry standard platform: ServiceNow in the form of catalog requests. Help spearhead the effort in the first iteration and released it to production.

Apart from that game developer enthusiast tooling on my own time to create video games and avid (retired) category 3 cyclist from USAC.

## Work Experience
### Full-stack Developer @ General Motors
Jan 2023 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States
Team: UI/UX

Summary:
    • Developmental team tasked with providing uniform reusable UI components with common back-end functionality to entire company for commonly performed tasks.
    • Then tasked with migrating custom Angular JS / Java Spring boot application of a ticketing system to ServiceNow. Successfully released the first iteration of the ServiceNow Application in General Motors.

Roles:
    • Hands on developmental/debugging of multiple applications with sticking to agile methodologies.
    • Development and planning of applications utilizing Java Spring-boot and/or Angular Js.
    • Develop API’s automating firewall and load-balancer service requests within company.
    • Performance enhance components to provide more stable and acceptable usage.
    • Help spearhead the ServiceNow effort to migrate current applications to ServiceNow format.

### Technical Support Engineer @ General Motors
Jan 2021 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States
Team: Gateway Mobile & CI/CD Services

Summary:
    • Administrative/Operations based team in which we provide IBM APIC as PaaS to clients inside GM. Duties range from keeping the PaaS operational/upgraded to maintain SLA, to providing on-call support to our clients 24/7 to assist with deployments/critical-issues.

Roles:
    • Daily hands-on in API management in regards to consultations/development in IBM APIC or Azure APIM.
    • Manage PKI by creating/installing X.509 certificates on our distributed servers.
    • Administer Websphere Liberty & OpenID servers.
    • Architecturally plan solutions of our migration efforts because of environment versioning.
    • Administrate our PaaS on Red Hat Openshift environment (Kubernetes).
    • Support applications after-hours from mundane to business critical issues.

### Information Technology Technician @ University of Arizona
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Yuma, Arizona, United States
Maintain hardware/software for students in satellite college campuses to connect with their instructors in the main university campus.

### Customer Service Representative @ Convey Health Solutions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Yuma, Arizona, United States
Provided beneficiaries of over the counter drug medicine through remote sales.

### Overnight Stocker @ Walmart
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Yuma, Arizona, United States
Ensured merchandise was stocked at all times.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Arizona

### Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS in Computer Science
Arizona Western College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thisisnotruben19961004
- GitHub: https://github.com/thisisnotruben
- Portfolio: https://rarlog.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-19