# Abel Jara

> Sr. Software Engineer @ Anduril

Location: Jurupa Valley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abel

I'm a software engineer with 6 years of experience in full-stack development. Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to work on a diverse set of projects, from small-scale prototypes to globally deployed, latency-sensitive services that handle high traffic volumes. 

My experience includes: setting up microservices (and owning them), architecting REST APIs, database design, integrating internal and third-party services, conducting performance testing, writing automated tests for back-end and front-end (integration tests/unit tests), writing modular reusable front-end components, creating metrics/dashboards for service health monitoring, handling on-call responsibilities, and leading meetings with leadership/cross-engineering teams.

I'm passionate about creating high-quality software that provides a great experience to the customer. I take pride in being a great communicator and collaborator, and I'm always excited to learn new skills and take on new challenges.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | California, United States

### Software Engineer @ HP
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Returned to the team to continue development of an in-production project: Omen Gaming Hub. Developed front-end/back-end social features and improved the stability of services by integrating health monitoring tools, bug fixing, and more.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Virginia, United States
I was a member of two high-visibility teams that owned the console and preferences page of AWS. I contributed to the latency-sensitive backend microservices & was responsible for feature development, architecture design, testing, contributing to weekly org-wide architecture reviews, holding on-call duties, and more.

### Software Engineer @ HP
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater San Diego Area
Developed, architected, and delivered a proof of concept (version 1) and production release (version 2) of a greenfield project.
Pivoted to an in-production project - Omen Gaming Hub. I was responsible for feature development, bug fixing, testing, flow/sequence diagram creation, database schema design, and more.

### Software Engineer @ API Healthcare
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area
Provide workforce management solutions in the healthcare industry. Responsible for updating and building new features for the product.
- Cross-functional collaboration to determine the best designs for UI.
- Implemented features following best coding practices.
  - Refactor when necessary (follow the Rule of Three).
  - Improve performance of queries or calculations when necessary.
- Develop automated tests for most implementation (unit tests, component tests).
  - Maintain and improve the code-coverage.
- Improve existing build management server.
- Hosted/participated in design meetings/code reviews.
- Followed SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) development practices.

### Software Engineer @ SOLUTE
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area
Integrated in­house real­time collaboration framework into a couple of mapping applications (built on ArcGIS 3/OpenLayers 2).
- Backend development with Java, MongoDB.
- Frontend development with AngularJS and ReactJS.
- Unit/Integration testing for REST service using JUnit and Rest-Assured.
Containerized applications with Docker and stood up in EC2 instance for a collaborative testing environment.

### DevOps Intern @ Human Longevity, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Diego
Project focus: To create a ticket automation tool that aims to deliver solutions to tickets from ServiceNow or Jira efficiently.
- Incorporated several Amazon Web Services and the Slack API as the core components.
- Implemented a custom command line interface to be used as the solution being delivered.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abel-jara-b8a0819a

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Last updated: 2026-03-22