# George Baca

> Engineering at Assurance IQ

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/georgebaca

As a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience, I excel at designing and implementing comprehensive solutions throughout the entire technology stack. Recently, I have been focusing on Kotlin as my back-end language of choice and React Typescript, while maintaining a strong foundation in Python and Java. 

My passion lies in working with a diverse range of full stack technologies, with a particular affinity for database management and optimizing systems to maximize efficiency.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Assurance IQ
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Wonder
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Wonder
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Evinox Energy - Communal & District Heat Network Solutions
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | London, United Kingdom
- Spearheaded the design, architecture, building, and implementation of a cutting-edge platform solution that effectively replaced and enhanced a legacy Windows thick client system, utilizing AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Orchestrated the development of asynchronous Tornado web server services, functioning as middleware that facilitated two-way communication between onsite hardware and the backend infrastructure, collecting telemetry data and enabling remote commands through RPC.
- Configured and maintained key AWS services (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis) to power the entire platform solution.
- Leveraged industry-leading tools such as DynamoDB, RabbitMQ, and Django framework to build and deliver a high-performance backend capable of persisting real-time streamed telemetry data seamlessly.
- Pioneered a WebSocket server solution that delivered new features that successfully closed crucial business needs for live alerting, crucial to customers.
- Designed and implemented scalable Django RESTful APIs utilizing Django REST Framework, providing applications with seamless backend connectivity.
- Built an authenticated and secure multi-tenant system

### Software Developer @ Logically
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Brighouse, West Yorkshire
- Worked on providing the requirements for the project startup, such as programming languages, frameworks and databases to be used
- Used Scrapy Framework to scrape data from a network of websites 
- Setup Google Cloud infrastructure to support scaling of inter-connected servers and services
- Developed Machine Learning classifiers using sci-kit learn, one of which classified data based on category derived from scraped labeled data
- Used Stanford CoreNLP to perform Natural Language Processing tasks on scraped data to be used in machine learning tasks
- Build an in-house version of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service using Django and AngularJS to provide a platform for human intelligence to annotate data that will be used for labeled machine learning tasks 
- Built several dashboards using D3 to measure scraped data and human intelligence 
- Used Django Rest Framework to create REST API endpoints and integrated with React SPA front-end
- Developed many REST API endpoints using Django that provide Logically services

### IT Intern @ GE Healthcare
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Built a web based sourcing tool from the ground up using technologies like Javascript, AngularJS, PHP, jQuery, MySQL, HTML, and CSS.
- Worked with local team and external third party contractors to assign incident responsibility.
- Assisted the local and European teams with case management.
- Bridged the communication gap with the local team and customers by constantly managing various incidents and their statuses.
- Provided incident management support during several Go Live events on customer site.
- Used the Salesforce platform to create and produce various reports and dashboards to decrease, aid and manage case backlog.
- Provided Service reports to Account Development Managers that would be shown to customers and used to determine Service Performance.
- As lead Admin, implemented Visual Planner, a resource planning tool, from beginning to end in the UKI region.
- Determined the process and workflow of resourcing with Visual Planner to Resource Managers, Project Managers, Resources and all other employees.
- Provided support and guidance to the UK team on the use and process of Visual Planner.


## Education
### Masters of Computer Science
Iona University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Northumbria University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### A-level's
Thomas Deacon Academy Sixth Form
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/george-baca-934a9769

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Last updated: 2026-03-22