# Fidel Salgado

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Quanta
Jan 2023 – Present
building https://www.usequanta.com/

### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Worked on the Payment Methods Management team where I helped build and design how we would support payment methods in the API.

### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in the Global LATAM team where I built local payment methods (https://stripe.com/docs/payments/oxxo and https://stripe.com/docs/payments/boleto) and built a new card integration for our Mexico local processing.

### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on the Treasury team where I mostly worked on building Stripe's internal ledger software. As part of the team I designed/built the ledger integration for paper checks, redesigned the ledger API and significantly improved our payout ledger integration.

### Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Head TA for CS103 (Mathematical Foundations of Computing)

### Data Engineer Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA
• As part of the Data Engineering & Analytics team, helped build a Spark file processing framework
• Designed and built a highly optimized file reprocessing algorithm
• Improved the project overall test coverage by 20% using JUnit and Mockito

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
• As part of the Data Governance team, helped build the backend of an internal web application that automates the detection of user sensitive information
• Improved the efficiency of the flat file processing algorithm by 30X

### Physics Tutor @ Cañada College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Led study groups of students in the subjects of Physics (Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Thermodynamics, Optics, Quantum Mechanics) and lower division Math (Single and Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations).

### Undergraduate Research @ Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Upton, New York
Worked in the Access Controls Security group building Human Machine Interfaces for the Linear Accelerator using Allen-Bradley FactoryTalk View software.

### Capstone Design Project for Community College Students @ San Francisco State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
One of only four community college students working on separate research. Worked under the supervision of graduate student Ben Lariviere. The project is to design a world's smallest power harvesting apparatus for implantable medical devices.

### Undergrad Research @ Stanford University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
At Microsystems Laboratory, worked on temperature and humidity testing of MFISes (Multi-Functional Integrated Sensors) using Labview and Matlab software under the supervision of Clifton Roozeboom. Updated laboratory website using mediawiki syntax under the supervision of Dr. Beth Pruitt.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS (DNF) in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

### Associate's Degree in Computer Science
Cañada College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23