# Alejandro Ayala-Hurtado > Senior Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Product Engineer, Engineering Manager, AI Engineer | Python, Golang, Kafka, LangChain, LangGraph, FastAPI, Typescript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, GCP | Waltzer Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alejandroayalahurtado When I’m not delivering customer focused features and driving impactful projects I'm probably exploring new cities and social dancing the waltz or bachata. I'm a senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience working in a variety of different teams and projects from backend, to front end to data pipelines working on customer facing products. I have spent most of my career at Unity Technologies in both IC and leadership roles. I also have experience working with and leading globally distributed teams. ACCOMPLISHMENTS At Unity Technologies: - Led team of 9 in developing new reporting dashboard in TypeScript, React, and Node.js for advertisers to monitor campaign performance, reducing dependency on 3rd party analytics saving $100K+ monthly. - Led globally distributed engineering team of 5 (3 senior and 2 junior full stack engineers), developing goals and growth plans, and guiding promotion process of direct reports. - Developed data pipelines to migrate our mediation data from BQ to Snowflake leading to a 50% decrease in query latency. - Led design and development of full stack mediation product using Golang, JavaScript, React, Kafka; enabling customers to monetize apps, leading to $5 million being generated by customers after 1 year. - Led design and development of 3 Golang microservices to enable easier sync and manage of inventory with SSP partners, leading to 4000+ games being added to company inventory. At Phil Inc.: - Engineered microservice in Golang, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL to power prescription management and delivery system; integrating Mailchimp, EasyPost and UberRush APIs for same day delivery. - Built customer facing web applications in JavaScript, React, and Redux for improved CX. Don't hesitate to reach out via email at amayalah@alumni.stanford.edu. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer - TypeScript, Node.js, React @ Unity Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | London, England, United Kingdom • Led team of 9 in developing new reporting dashboard in TypeScript, React, and Node.js for advertisers to monitor campaign performance, reducing dependency on 3rd party analytics saving $100K+ monthly. • Collaborated with product managers and designers to determine scope of work and milestones for MVP reporting dashboard release, enabling launch 28% faster to gather feedback from customers sooner. • Instrumented Stats API codebase to create 6X more metrics using Prometheus and built Grafana dashboards to visualize them, to better set recommendations for future performance enhancements. • Designed and implemented report saving feature using TypeScript, React, and Node.js, enabling advertisers to better understand campaign performance in targeting Unity’s 1.5 billion users. ### Software Engineering Manager - BQ, SQL, Python, Spark, Airflow @ Unity Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom • Led globally distributed engineering team of 5 (3 senior and 2 junior full stack engineers), developing goals and growth plans, and guiding promotion process of direct reports. • Defined product roadmap in collaboration with product management focusing on business level impact projects such as new ad campaign types and refactoring advertiser eligibility rules system. • Managed team of 5 in developing reporting for the App Event campaign type with Spark, Airflow, Druid, and Imply, leading to Alpha release and adoption by 30+ advertisers and 15%+ increase in ROAS. • Led team of 5 in refactoring advertiser eligibility rules system to have single source of truth, creating new data pipeline in BQ, SQL, Spark, and Python, increasing user acquisition campaigns by 10%. ### Senior Software Engineer - Golang, BQ, GCS, Snowflake, Vault, Terraform, Helm, Kafka @ Unity Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom • Designed and implemented impression and user level API using Golang, BQ, GCS, and Snowflake enabling publishers to optimize UA campaigns at the user and impression level across 500+ games. • Developed data pipelines to migrate our mediation data from BQ to Snowflake leading to a 50% decrease in query latency. • Investigated and developed plan for moving Mediation platform from shared to new GCP cluster using Golang, JavaScript, BQ, Vault, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, enabling better control of costs and access. ### Software Engineering Manager - Golang, React, JavaScript, Kafka @ Unity Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led design and development of full stack mediation product using Golang, JavaScript, React, Kafka; enabling customers to monetize apps, leading to $5 million being generated by customers after 1 year. • Collaborated with product and designers to plan design and development of mediation platform, leading to Open Beta launch with 300 games using our product and $500k net revenue for Unity EOY. • Drove team processes (sprints, project management) and interviewed and onboarded 3 new engineers. • Mentored intern guiding them to create Golang microservice to expose reporting data to our dashboard. ### Software Engineer, Monetization - Golang, React, Javascript, MongoDB @ Unity Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led the design, development and planning of the frontend and backend of a self-service dashboard using React, JavaScript and Golang enabling DSPs to integrate into our ads exchange and leading to > 50 DSPs integrating by end of year. • Led the design and development of 3 Golang microservices, enabling us to more easily sync and manage our inventory with our SSP partners leading to > 4000 games being added to our inventory. • Mentored several junior engineers helping them better understand best practices of how to structure their code and helping them familiarize themselves with our backend services. ### Software Engineer - Golang, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Javascript, React @ Phil, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led design, development, and planning of frontend and backend of self-service dashboard in React, JavaScript, and Golang, enabling 50+ DSPs to integrate into our ads exchange by end of year. • Led design and development of 3 Golang microservices to enable easier sync and manage of inventory with SSP partners, leading to 4000+ games being added to company inventory. • Mentored 3 junior engineers to teach coding best practices and drive familiarity with backend services. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ### Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering and Geomechanics Stanford University Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aayalah --- Source: https://flows.cv/alejandroayalahurtado JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alejandroayalahurtado/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22