# Alejandra Buznego

> Senior Software Engineer at Helium

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alejandrabuznego

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Helium
Jan 2020 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Byte Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and implemented microservices to support re-architecture of monolithic system
• Migrated a BackboneJS/jQuery/Express application to React/TypeScript/NextJS
• Designed and implemented a new payment system for IoT devices to service a nursing market
• Developed a monitoring service application to enable NAMA compliance for IoT devices
• Technologies Used: JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, moleculerJS, AWS, GCP, NextJS

### Software Engineer I @ BAE Systems
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Diego, CA
• Developed, tested, and implemented new web app features and components to ensure strong functionality and optimization
• Resolved complex technical design issues
• Implemented new frameworks (i.e. React libraries) into existing base code
• Technologies Used: JS in front-end, Python in business layer, and PostgreSQL as database

### Smart Home Integration Developer @ SproutLabs, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Cruz, CA
• Integrated SproutLabs API to Amazon Alexa and Google Home services
• Enabled users to make informed decisions about plant care by: 1) Retrieving server data from embedded sensors, and 2) Designing and developing user interaction schemas in Node.js in order to provide user access to this data

### IT Productivity Specialist Intern @ Plantronics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Cruz, CA
• Improved employee productivity by rolling out and implementing company-wide changes in software tools 
• Led projects with substantial, measurable benefits to the company
• Identified software solutions for specific user problems

### Economics Department Research Assistant @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Cruz, CA

### Staff Human Resources Intern @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Cruz, CA

### Business Development Intern @ Nadel Phelan, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Scott's Valley, CA

### Administrative Assistant @ Seymour Marine Discovery Center
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Santa Cruz, California, US

### Economics Department Research Assistant @ UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Cruz, CA

### Learning Technology Committee Student Chair @ UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Santa Cruz, CA
Represent the UCSC student body while the committee discusses how IT can support learning and teaching at UCSC, learning models including hybrid and distance delivery and other innovative approaches, and how instructors can use technology to make teaching more effective for teachers and learners, including in the classroom, labs and on the web. This committee creates initiatives that address needed improvements and additions to the technologies available to instructors and students in the learning environment.

### Committee on International Education Student Chair @ UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Santa Cruz, CA


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Cum Laude, Computer Science & Business Management and Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abuznego
- Website: https://abuznego.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-22