# Alexandra Espichán Linares

> Software Engineer @ ParentSquare

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

Full-stack software engineer

Open to remote jobs only

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ ParentSquare
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España
- Developed high-impact features.
- Led technical design for the projects I worked on.
- Wrote detailed documentation for business requirements, technical design, experiment and test plans.
- Dived deep on ambiguous requirements and a huge codebase to get the necessary information to develop the features.
- Collaborated with product, design and owners of multiple services to build features.

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Able
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Implemented and maintained Ruby on Rails and React applications
- Implemented and maintained Flask and Vue applications
- Wrote unit tests using Jest and RSpec, and end-to-end tests using Cypress
- Used TailwindCSS to improve the UX and UI of the applications
- Used PostgreSQL
- Used multiple AWS services
- Participated in the definition of infrastructure and tooling for the applications and services we use
- Performed maintenance of legacy code and refactor to use modern technologies
- Collaborated with the product and design teams to build features
- Participated in recruiting processes to scale the team

### Teaching assistant @ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Lima, Peru
Support students to help them better understand the courses: 
- Algorithms
- Programming fundamentals
- Operating systems
- Computer science applications
- Artificial Intelligence

### Research Assistant - AI Group @ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Lima, Peru
Project: Identification of Peruvian languages 
- Compile texts in multiple Peruvian languages from the Internet
- Automate text extraction
- Develop Python scripts to clean text
- Prepare the dataset based on the clean and labeled texts.
- Develop, train and compare various Machine Learning models and a Recurrent Neural Network.
- Develop a web application to present the results
- Write and present two papers in the SIMBig conference

Project: Classifiers committee for genetic expression data
- Develop a new machine learning algorithm based on classifier committees
- Automate testing multiple hyperparameters on the developed algorithm on various public datasets
- Compare results of the algorithm versus the Random Forest algorithm
- Write and present a paper in an IEEE BIBM conference

### Technology Consultant @ Management Solutions
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Lima, Peru
Developed a Big data process for a Peruvian bank entity

### Data Scientist @ Rimac Seguros y Reaseguros
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Lima, Peru
- Develop machine learning predictive models
- Automate data processing and training of predictive models 
- Deploy predictive models on AWS cloud

### Data Analyst @ Rimac Seguros y Reaseguros
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Lima, Peru
- Lead the automation of the search process for life annuity prospects
- Reduce process time and workload for searching life annuity prospects from about 8 hours and 2 people involved to about 30 minutes and no people involved as the process was fully automated
- Automate extraction, storage and processing of big open data from the Internet

Main technologies: Python, Docker, AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, ECS, Cloudwatch, Redshift), OpenCV, Keras

### Software Developer Intern @ ANGKOR GROUP SAC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Lima, Peru
- Developed web applications in .NET and Ruby on Rails
- Developed a mobile application for iOS devices in Swift

### Software Developer Intern @ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru - PUCP
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Lima, Peru
Implemented multiple features to improve the university virtual campus


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexandra-espichan
- GitHub: https://github.com/aespichan

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Last updated: 2026-03-22