# Erick Romero > Software Engineer at Meta Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/erickromero Erick is an extremely quick learning and passionate full-stack developer from Mexico. He has worked with a wide array of languages, including JavaScript, Python, C++, and Rust. He is highly result-oriented and has an excellent track record translating big, sprawling concepts into applications. Erick has a passion for making beautiful applications and coding in a clean and performant fashion. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States • Led the rollout of our CI Lab for AR Glasses, enabling e2e testing for hundreds of developers internally • Created auto-remediations to enable devices in a bad state to self-recover to be able to run tests again • Created, and led the Storage Health strategy for all our Wearable devices • Wrote internal scripts, tests, and tooling to analyze health of our Drives, and ensure our devices have a healthy lifespan, and reasonable performance Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Hack, Rust, C++ ### Rotational Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Manhattan, New York, United States • Worked on unannounced AR & MR Experiences • Integrated prototype controllers with internal frameworks • Generated new pipelines for improving operating system build/CI/CD stability Technologies: React, JavaScript, Kotlin, Python, C++, Jest ### Senior Software Engineer @ Nuvocargo Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mexico City, Mexico • Worked on a Series A Startup, aiding in build up Engineering Standards, and Best Practices in a fast moving environment. • Led a team to migrate the core of our code infrastructure out of Airtable, and into Postgres + React in 3 weeks. • Organized a weekly cross-team Front-End Guild Meeting to align on best practices, new technology, and largest pain points. Technologies: React, JavaScript, Jest, Cypress, Styled Components, Styleguidst ### Senior Software Engineer @ Theorem, LLC Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mexico City Area, Mexico • Helped a client in the ad industry to standardize the stack to current industry best practices, setting architecture conventions for their new front end application, and helping their front-end team be positioned to succeed going forward. • Developed a platform to dynamically build custom HTML emails with a drag-and-drop interface that required no HTML skills from users (Similar to Mailchimp) • Worked on an escrow application handling multi-million-dollar transactions, with high security requirements. • Gained Front-End/Design team alignment to aid in creating a Design System. And then created a UI Library based on it. • Organized cross-squad Front-End team meetings, to gain alignment on practices and Tech Debt tackling across 5 different squads. • Created Checklists used for onboarding all new Front-End Engineering hires. Technologies: React, Redux, TypeScript, Jest, Styled Components, Docz ### Senior Web UI Developer @ Globant Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Mexico City Area, Mexico • Created a web app for two of the largest automotive companies in the world, used to remotely control vehicle operations. • Created a platform to do Over the Air (OTA) vehicle updates. • Created and subsequently led efforts for onboarding, and training of new dev hires. • Took over managing all of Web Front End Infra, i.e. a code generator to quickly bootstrap applications with our stack, a UI standard which helped keep our app appearance consistent, as well as other JavaScript infra such as Babel, ESLint, and Webpack. • Created and documented business processes such as npm publishing, lerna, npm symlinking of local development of libraries, etc. This allows new hires to have a reference and become familiar with our stack in a much more effective fashion. • Created an internal Hapi.js library which translates between the MQTT protocol which is a high availability—IoT focused protocol, and Websockets using Socket.io, used to interact with IoT devices in real time. Technologies: React, Redux, Node.js, Blueprint, Socket.io, Hapi.js, MQTT, SASS, MySQL ### Full-Stack Developer @ Statclip Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Mexico City Area, Mexico • Created a highly extensible process virtualization platform which as of 2016 has been the most profitable project the company has ever had. • Ported the said document virtualization platform to become a SaaS business which is growing on a monthly basis. • Created a Go API for optical character recognition using neural networks and RabbitMQ to make uploaded images searchable. • Used Sass to enable application customization so clients can input their company colors and have the application display change values in every single view and to increase brand awareness. Technologies: React, Node.js, MongoDB, Go, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Bootstrap ### Lead Software Developer @ iSAP Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mexico City Area, Mexico • Created a web-invoicing platform that superseded the existing client's SAP platform—saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing costs on a yearly basis. • Grew a web development team from 0 people to 15 in the space of a year and a half—leading and setting the company standards for quality and tooling for increased productivity. • Took on the role of team leader in all the projects that I was involved in—mentoring new hires, onboarding teams, and handling client-company communication on progress and timelines. • Created an internal Scala framework for tests designed for stress testing which ran operations in the order of thousands of times per second. • Led several in-company classes for Git usage to ensure data integrity and facilitate team collaboration working within a Git flow focused around pull requests. Technologies: JavaScript, Scala, Node, AngularJS, MySQL, PostgreSQL ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management Universidad Tecmilenio Campus Ferrería Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 ### High School in Physics and Mathematics Concentration Universidad del Valle de México Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/erick5 - Website: https://zyst.io/about --- Source: https://flows.cv/erickromero JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/erickromero/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23