# Ivan Barrios > Staff Engineer at Samsung Electronics America Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ivanbarrios Full stack software engineering team lead. More than a decade of experience building a variety of web services in Retail, Media, Finance, and Advertising. Clear and concise communicator. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Samsung Ads Jan 2023 – Present Lead development teams while working closely across architecture, data engineering, site-reliability engineering, product management and engineering management. Delivering high quality software functionality and mentoring engineers in multiple roles. Provide technical leadership around microservice architecture initiatives and flow of data. ### Team Lead @ Samsung Electronics America Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 Leading a development team to build front-end tool that assesses audience size and parameters for display ads in Samsung TVs and mobile devices. Work front end features in React/Typescript through GraphQL to Rails backend. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Enjoy Technology, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Built backend scheduling software focused on automating calendars for Enjoy’s Experts. Built out React-based front end application for managing Enjoy’s inventory in it’s over 60 international fulfillment centers. Worked to make processes and software more scalable from 12 domestic to over 60 domestic and international fulfillment centers. ### Software Engineer @ YesVideo Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 Full stack engineer. Built three different Rails-based applications ranging from a consumer-facing suite of e-commerce sites to a centralized REST-based backend. ### Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Ruby Developer created new features to improve the usability of the Microplace microfinance website. Focused on integration of payment processing solutions and backend processes that smooth the flow of transactions between investors and microfinance institutions. ### Software Engineer @ Project Playlist Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Reduced complexity and slowness of MySQL-based playlist storage by implementing a new Rails API with CouchDB backend. Developed a new music API to support transition to an AJAX-based front-end. Improved processes for tracking site analytics across a variety of KPI's and metrics for delivery of ad-based content. ### Integrations Engineer @ TubeMogul Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Helped video advertisers and publishers integrate the InPlay analytics suite into their web-based videos. Maintained and developed all related ActionScript and HTML5 code. Worked with engineering, marketing, sales, and ad operations to ensure customers were having the best possible analytics experience. ### Founder @ CrossPath Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 CrossPath aimed to create a transportation alternative that blended all of the freedom of driving yourself, with all of the benefits of carpooling. It did this by offering a real-time, location-based search engine that allowed you to find an acquaintance in your vicinity to share a ride to a common destination right now. CrossPath closed after failing to generate a critical mass of users around it's ridesharing solution. Ivan developed most of the software for this solution, which included a website, service-oriented backend, and an iPhone/iPad app that acted as a mobile client. ### Product Planning Manager @ Altera Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 Responsible for defining family plans for Cyclone III and Stratix III family of devices. Performed extensive competitive analysis to determine key differentiating value propositions. Interviewed customers to uncover forward-looking product requirements in the 3-6 year time frame. Built extensive customer designs database to assist in quantifying customer utilization of existing features such as on-chip memory depth/width, IO standards, and maximum clock frequency requirements and settings. ### Technical Services Manager @ Altera Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 Launched new Applications Engineering, Intellectual Property, and Competitive Analysis Benchmarking teams in Penang, Malaysia. Hired and trained local staff to take on increasing responsibility for new device rollouts, technical documentation, and software tools benchmarking. By the end of 2003, had grown headcount to greater than 20 with a replacement manager and two supervisors. ### Applications Engineer @ Altera Jan 1995 – Jan 2001 Responsible for direct customer support. Assist hardware design customers in the use of Altera's software design tools (Max+Plus II and Quartus II) and debugging of issues related to hardware implementation. (Signal integrity, device configuration, etc) Lead lab-based testing for new device rollouts of over 5 device families from MAX 5000 to Apex 20K. Train FAEs and customers on new device features and capabilities and perform hands-on tutorial training. Authored numerous technical documents ranging from device data sheets to applications white papers. ### Co-founder @ Juiceworks Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 Co-founded Malaysia's leading retail smoothie operator - Freo Smoothie. Subsequently merged company in 2005 and is now Juiceworks. We operate twelve retail smoothie outlets in and around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Remain actively involved as an investor and board member. ## Education ### B.S. in Electrical Engineering University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ivanbarrios - Portfolio: http://www.dcfmethod.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ivanbarrios JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ivanbarrios/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12