# Cesar G.

> Staff Software Engineer @ GoFundMe | React, Next.js, Tailwind, Node.js, SQL.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/cesarg

As a Staff Engineer at Belong, I lead the frontend team, guiding our codebase's direction while closely collaborating with product and design. My role included onboarding and mentoring new engineers, making sure our projects enhanced user experience and met business needs while following coding best practices. I am passionate about everything web, code quality, SEO, and analytics, and I use cutting-edge technologies such as React, Next, Tailwind, and Node to create user-friendly and scalable solutions.

I have a B.S in Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, where I developed strong analytical and problem-solving skills. I constantly seek new opportunities to learn and grow in my field. My goal is to leverage my skills and expertise to create innovative and impactful products that enhance the lives of millions of users.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ GoFundMe
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ GoFundMe
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Belong
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- As a Staff Engineer at Belong, I led the frontend team, guiding our codebase's direction while closely collaborating with product and design. My role included onboarding and mentoring new engineers, making sure our projects enhanced user experience and met business needs while following coding best practices.
- Proposed and led the automation of location-based landing pages end to end. Implemented the backend apis in Nest.js powered by LLMs and other localized data sources.

### Senior Sofware Engineer @ Belong
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Proposed and led transition from a monolithic SSR web application deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk to a monorepo multi-package Next app deployed to Vercel, significantly reducing infra costs from thousands to almost less than $100.
- Upgraded build processes by shifting from Bitbucket pipelines to GitHub actions and parallelizing our builds, achieving more than 50% reduction in build times.

### Software Engineer @ Belong
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Integrated Prettier, Storybook, Typescript, Playwright and pre-commit hooks to our codebase to enhance code quality and testing coverage.
- Implemented web optimizations like lazy loading, code splitting, packages and dead imports pruning reducing main bundle size by 80%.

### Frontend Engineer @ Ksquare Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth y alrededores, Estados Unidos
- Developed a custom Redux middleware to efficiently integrate redux actions with Mixpanel events, enhancing tracking capabilities.
- Achieved a 20% cut in bundle size and 60% in static asset folder by optimizing our build process.

### Full-stack Developer @ Clickbus México
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | México
- Led the adoption of React at the company by developing a self-invoicing system, eliminating the high volume of manual invoicing support requests.
- Automated the route activation/deactivation process, eliminating manual effort and reducing routes endpoint data load by 20%.


## Education
### Licenciatura in Física
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cesar-gtz

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Last updated: 2026-03-20