# Emilio Martinez-Cordero > Coder, thinker, maker, designer // Senior Staff Software Engineer at Rivian Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/emiliomartinezcordero Qué onda. I’m a Mexican-American software developer and creative technologist, based in the SF Bay Area. I love breaking down problems to their core to build thoughtful, scalable, and accessible solutions with users at heart. What’s more, I believe in learning + building with other disciplines to make what we do smarter, more informed, and resilient. As an engineer, I contribute across the stack, enjoy digging into build tools, and believe in adopting the right tools for the job—with a healthy use of web standards, of course. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2023 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States At Rivian, our team is focused on building resilient experiences through technology that challenge what’s possible as we transition to a world of sustainable transportation. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States In this role as a full-stack engineering lead, I strived to deliver impactful software solutions across various domains at Rivian – from customer-facing to internal tools and operations – leveraging my ability to collaborate and bridge the gap between different teams and technologies. • Actively participated in designing and building essential e-commerce features across B2C and B2B, constantly striving to ensure a seamless end-to-end experience for Rivian customers. • Closely collaborated with product and business teams to drive the development of tools to improve operational efficiency – to the benefit of employees as well as customers. • Fostered software culture and tools rooted in collaboration, consistency, and resiliency to facilitate development and growth of Rivian's software ecosystem and organization. • Building strong relationships with teams across Rivian was and remains a focus, ensuring seamless integration and communication which allow systems and teams to scale over time. ### Technical Director @ dentsu mcgarrybowen Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States In this role, I was a tech lead and individual contributor in the digital experiences team (architecture, consulting and implementation): • Supported a wide array of companies from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 enterprises. • Contributed to tech stacks with a variety of languages, libraries, and frameworks. • Instilled design and development practices in areas such as systematic thinking, accessibility, tooling, making a healthy use of web standards, and others. • Actively partnered and contributed to our multidisciplinary product team, integrating with our parallel strategic, design, and business efforts. ### Associate Technical Director @ Swirl Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States I joined Swirl to help establish and grow meaningful technology practice. This effort evolved into forming a cross-functional team focused on holistically solving digital design and technology business problems through Design Thinking. • Oversaw, advised, and actively contributed to building custom web-based solutions for clients ranging from early-stage businesses to enterprise. • Provided ongoing communication, technical recommendations, and guidance to clients. • Served as a lead advocate for technology and accessibility with our team and clients. • Participated in establishing software development workflows, tooling, and best practices. In 2017, Swirl was acquired by mcgarrybowen, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, to "enhance its digital, social and technology capabilities." ### Freelance Web Developer & Designer @ Freelance Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States In this time period, I worked in freelance and contract capacities with a number of companies to aid in areas: • Identifying usability, accessibility, and documentation gaps in internal corporate design systems, and helping to remedy these. • Architecting and implementing visually engaging and interactive web experiences. • Bridging communication gaps and workflow between development and design teams. ### Head of Interaction Design @ Investments Illustrated Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Los Altos, California, United States Oversaw all graphic development and production, and actively participated in shaping the firm’s strategy. Redesigned and co-developed the company’s products and work, many done in both print and digital forms, as well as any commissioned projects brought forth by the company’s clients. Additionally, reworked the company’s corporate identity, spanning their logo, font choices, and website, which also involved their e-commerce efforts. Graphic, programmatic, and research skills were an every day necessity. All work was done in vector format, and in the case of print, designs were executed in InDesign. A strong focus on clean and cohesive use of typography, form, and color was always enforced on projects, as well as product scalability, and formal but clear communication. ### Freelance Web Developer & Designer @ Freelance Jan 2006 – Jan 2014 | Mexico City, Mexico Involvement with a number of projects in a freelance manner. Many have been web-oriented, where requirements have spanned from social media related widgets and modules, to full websites, and even custom CMS solutions; other projects have been related to video, package design, corporate image, and 3D animation and rendering, for example. These collaborations have been with companies and products of diverse natures, e.g., automobiles, architecture, real estate, mining, fuel catalysts, vehicle security, creative agencies, and even video production for humanitarian and developing sectors. Each project has called for different skills in distinct manners, but the common denominator in all of them is applied research. ### Interaction designer @ Museo Franz Mayer Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Mexico City, Mexico Built and interactive audiovisual experience, accessible in English, French, and German, which served as walkthrough about the museum’s history, encompassing the building’s legacy and Mr. Mayer’s life itself. This installation was exhibited as a stand-alone experience in the museum's lobby, as well as in web form. ### Web Developer @ Arteria Comunicaciones Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Mexico City, Mexico Designed and developed interactive monitoring dashboards for the largest brewery in Mexico, enabling executives at their HQ to visually keep track of their operations and systems distributed across the entire country. Dashboards were developed using both web standards and Flash to maximize the device categories they could be deployed to, spanning from large 40+ inch screens to mobile devices. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emarticor - Portfolio: https://emilio.dev/ - GitHub: https://github.com/emilio-martinez --- Source: https://flows.cv/emiliomartinezcordero JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/emiliomartinezcordero/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25