# Carlos S.

> Software Engineer @ Stripe

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carloss

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2023 – Present | South San Francisco, California, United States

### Founding Software Engineer @ Dopt
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Oakland, California, United States
• Converted high level ideas from stakeholders into a web app and services to meet product requirements while ensuring future scalability
• Designed extensible database schemas to provide flexibility for new feature development
• Developed framework for back‑end service to enable developers to work quickly and ergonomically across the monolith
• Dynamically generated Open API schemas from REST endpoints to create clients for both internal and external consumption of our APIs
• Deployed dockerized services into the cloud with Kubernetes to ensure high availability through horizontal scalability
• Leveraged Redis and websockets to enable bidirectional communication between client and server to enable real‑time updates to client

### Software Engineer III @ Patreon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Led company‑wide testing overhaul increasing speed of tests by 7x while simultaneously improving reliability and lowering costs
• Improved our public internationalization package by introducing support for dynamic language switching to enable server‑side rendering
• Collaborated with external vendor Translated to update our translation pipeline to move to new API version and launch 5 new languages
• Modernized tech stack by migrating REST stack to GraphQL allowing for more fine grained requests and responses
• Refactored service within monolith allowing multiple teams to leverage existing features across new services
• Took customer feedback to improve our open source public API by adding features, fixing bugs, and improving documentation

### Staff Researcher Associate II @ University of California, Los Angeles
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Ticketmaster
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | West Hollywood, California
• Successfully deployed new public facing features in Java and JavaScript
• Primary developer for high impact login service that received millions of daily users
• Ensured code met National Federation of the Blind’s standards to increase accessibility
• Wrote end‑to‑end tests using Selenium and Jest to increase service’s resilience to human error
• Published meta‑data to Kafka streams used by cross‑functional teams

### Software Engineer Internship @ Ticketmaster
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Hollywood, CA


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
UCLA

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Riverside


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carlos-santillana

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Source: https://flows.cv/carloss
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/carloss/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29