# Dig Vargas

> Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead at Kiddom

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dig

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the renewables and environment industry. Skilled in Ember.js, React, and Ruby on Rails. Full stack development with a front-end focus.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead @ Kiddom
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer - Tech Lead, Product @ Intuit Mailchimp
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
- Drove spike, prototype, development and release of new calendar enabling richer product development
- Optimizes team processes, meetings and task structure achieving greater team velocity 
- Collaborates on product roadmap closely with Design and Product to best target releases
- Focuses team on sprint goals to ensure impactful product work is prioritized
- Mentors team developers in personal productivity, product impact and career goals
- Coordinates regularly with QA and Support to fold quality control into regular dev practices
- Ramped up on golang and GCP rapidly within a month to build greenfield multichannel backend
- Authored tech spec to architect new media planning platform with GCP Cloud Run, Spanner and React
- Championed introduction of testing best practices and raised code review standards across team
- Connects with data services and reporting teams to integrate relevant cross-features

### Software Engineer @ Locus Energy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
- Grew and expanded feature base of LocusNOC, a solar asset mgmt platform
- Implemented new alerting system for remote solar location administration
- Redesigned centerpiece charting tool for increased performance and usability
- Designed and spec’d new Auth flow leveraging AWS Cognito and AWS Lambda
- Built new Auth UX flow seamlessly migrating users from old auth system
- Launched new mobile app for residential solar utilizing Cordova and EmberJS
- Revamped development process in coordination with QA and Product teams
- Drove regular release cadence using Gitlab CI/CD for seamless deploys
- Collaborated with API team on mobile app’s requirements, including 3rd party data
- Lead project retrospectives and incident reports for dev process improvement

### Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Developed National Small Business (NSB) new account user flow in AngularJS
- Contributed to C1 Angular component library used across NSB UI apps
- Coordinated with QA to utilize Protractor for automation E2E testing
- Drove collaboration with orchestration layer team to address issues along the stack

### Software Engineer II @ Monsoon Company
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Launched and maintained several full-stack web apps for various clients
- Decided best web tools for projects, including Rails, Express, Backbone, Ember and Angular
- Sole developer on pilot project with Capital One leading to acquisition by C1

### Software Engineer I @ Monsoon Company
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Implemented mobile-responsive web apps for a diverse client base
- Built APIs in Rails and Node for full-stack app implementation
- Promoted within first year to Software Engineer II
- Initialized projects with test harnesses and TDD to ensure sufficient test coverage from start
- Leveraged CSS frameworks (Less and Sass) to implement widely responsive design

### Director of Advertising Operations @ The Collective
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
- Managed ad operations team to maintain online ad campaign activity
 - Ensured accurate trafficking of javascript ad tags
 - Monitored daily numbers to maximize ad revenue and optimize with partners

### Senior Publisher Account Manager @ LiveRail
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco
- Drove ad operations solutions and optimizations for publisher clients
 - Main business contact and relationship manager for key strategic publisher accounts
 - Collaborated with Product and Dev teams on platform specs to address client needs
 - Acquired promotion within first year on the client services team


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science - Post bachelor's program
Oregon State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021

### Software
App Academy
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English Language and Literature, General
Rutgers University
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/dig
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dig/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22