# Fabian Joya > Technical Leader Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/fabianjoya With over 15 years of work experience in software engineering and management, I have developed a passion for building and scaling distributed systems, delivering high-quality software as a service (SaaS) solutions, and leading and mentoring diverse teams of engineers. I am currently exploring new opportunities and challenges, where I can leverage my expertise, skills, and values to create positive impact and value for customers and stakeholders. Previously, I was a technical leader at Cisco. In this role, I was responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of multiple SaaS services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance. I led a team of 10 engineers, providing technical guidance, feedback, and coaching, as well as fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ P0 Security Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Technical Co-Founder @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Co-founded a startup specializing in improving developer productivity through tech-debt remediation, code intelligence, and scope & impact analysis. • Created a framework for constructing ASTs and building knowledge graphs of source code to enable analytics. • Applied LLMs to transform source code, optimizing model output using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and validation. • Built an AI-native UI that transforms native language requests to Neo4j Cypher queries and auto-generates visualizations. ### Technical Leader @ Cisco Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA • Led cross-functional, geographically diverse teams of 8-10 engineers responsible for developing, deploying, supporting, operating and maintaining various microservices deployed using CI / CD on AWS using Docker / Kubernetes. Areas of responsibility included authentication, authorization, auditing, secrets management, licensing and limit management. • Mentored team members, fostering their professional growth and empowering them to take on expanded responsibilities, leading to multiple promotions. • Delivered horizontally scalable microservices for multi-tenant, zero-trust, token-based authentication & authorization, integrating legacy and modern platforms, supporting multiple types of principals (users, services, agents), key rotation, secrets management and RBAC. • Ensured high code quality through code reviews and comprehensive automated test coverage across the entire testing spectrum – including unit, component, integration, concurrency, end-to-end, sanity, contract and performance tests. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Cisco Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA • Ran the initiative to enable zero-downtime software upgrades, coordinating efforts across 10+ engineering teams, championing the process changes required for online schema migration. • Developed a limit management service to manage capacity limits to improve system reliability and prevent potential outages. • Trusted on-call engineer, recognized for resolving complex escalations and providing expert assistance during critical incidents. ### Staff Software Engineer @ AppDynamics Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA • Led a team of four engineers in the redesign of the agent licensing system, successfully advocating for the addition of pivotal new features, collaborating closely with PM, UX, leadership and business stakeholders to establish consensus. ### Senior Software Engineer @ AppDynamics Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA • Spearheaded major version upgrades of the application & database servers, both on-premises and SaaS, orchestrating a seamless transition across the engineering organization to ensure minimal disruptions. ### Technical Account Manager @ AppDynamics Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Accountable for ensuring customer success across major strategic accounts with a combined business value exceeding $40M, including renowned industry leaders like Netflix, Expedia and Pearson Education. • Collaborated closely with Account Managers to cultivate champions, establish strategic alignment, drive adoption across 10+ business units, and successfully expand key accounts, resulting in the two record-breaking deals ($7.5M and $8.5M). • Partnered with engineering on a major project to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, resulting in a 100% increase in application performance. • Worked proactively with product management, engineering, education, and support to ensure customer success. • Provided thought leadership around successful integration and adoption of AppDynamics. ### Principal Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 | Redwood Shores, CA • Led the development of Support Workbench through multiple major releases. • Transformed Support Workbench into a framework with an extensive SDK for integrators, featuring numerous integration points, including user interface extensions. • Coordinated across multiple engineering teams to add support for key Oracle products: RDBMS, ASM, Exadata, Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications. • Partnered with PM, QA and CS to drive feature requirements, testing and provide ongoing maintenance. ### Senior Software Engineer @ RSA Security Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | San Mateo, CA • Designed and developed the agent service for RSA’s identity and access management server. Key features included centralized configuration of agents, protocol encoding/decoding, single sign-on and federation. • Developed the logging component for the SecurID authentication server, featuring centralized log signing and verification. ## Education ### M.S. in Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fabianjoya --- Source: https://flows.cv/fabianjoya JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/fabianjoya/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01