# Jared Zena > Senior Software Engineer @ Resilia Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jaredzena Helping organizations leverage AI and technology to solve real-world problems and drive efficiency. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Resilia Jan 2022 – Present | United States Resilia empowers thousands of nonprofits to track their impact, collaborate with funders, manage fundraising campaigns, access educational resources, and craft compelling organizational narratives. My technical leadership spans infrastructure, AI innovation, and full-stack development, driving measurable improvements in platform reliability, performance and user experience. Key Contributions: - Modularized backend architecture to streamline development workflows, improve testing processes, and enhance overall system reliability, resulting in more predictable releases and fewer production incidents. - Configured and maintained cloud infrastructure using Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL, ensuring 99.9% uptime to support thousands of monthly active users. - Optimized platform performance by reducing page loading times from 4 seconds to 500ms through enhanced resource allocation in Kubernetes clusters. - Integrated AI capabilities to provide enhanced user experiences and automate manual workflows, increasing user engagement and platform adoption. - Contributed to full-stack development using React, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Prisma to deliver robust features that address nonprofit needs. - Improved CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing build times from 25 minutes to less than 5 minutes and enabling continuous delivery with multiple deployments per week per engineer. - Developed experimental features and proof-of-concept implementations to evaluate new technologies and drive platform innovation. - Onboarded new engineering team members and developed comprehensive documentation, standardizing engineering processes. - Incorporated US government data integrations to enhance platform functionality and automate reporting for nonprofits. • Tech stack: Typescript, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Prisma, AWS, Kubernetes ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bkaya Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 From the pre-release of the app and zero customers to product validation stage and the rapid scaling to thousands of new daily users. Developed 11+ new APIs and maintained other 15+ in a event-based architecture. Iterated and continuously improved processes achieving design, development and deployment of new BE components in two-week iterations. Mentored 20+ teammates. Tech stack: Java11, Python3, Spring Boot, Flask, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Fivetran, Snowflake, Airflow, Azure ### Senior Back End Engineer @ Bkaya Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Bankaya is the first financial technology in Mexico truly focused on the unbanked and underserved populations through its unique offline customer acquisition strategy. At Bankaya, I was able to: • Contribute since the early stages of the company going from the pre-release to the customer acquisition stage and the subsequent service to thousands of new daily users. • Develop 11+ new different APIs and maintain 15+ along with their event-based communication. • Iterate and continuously improve the development process aiming to achieve design, development and deployment of new back end components in a two-week time frame. • Work and analyze customer feedback to design, develop and improve reusable, maintainable, and scalable software, always maintaining a customer-first approach. • Tech stack: Java11, Python3, Ballerina, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Flask, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jaeger, Fivetran, Snowflake. ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Banco Santander Mexico Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mexico • Development of cloud APIs following Microservices architecture using Spring Boot. • Integration of backend applications with frontend following BaaS (Banking as a Service) end-to-end process. • Development of Microservices following TDD using Junit and Mockito, including as well, authentication with JWT and OAuth 2.0, interaction with cache DB Redis, consumption of backend APIs, code quality SonarQube scanning in Jenkins build and deploying to Kubernetes Openshift PaaS together with Gitlab as version control system. • Development of frontend applications with Angular 8 framework in Typescript. Technologies: Java, Typescript, Spring Boot, Maven, Redis, Gitlab, Git, Postman, SonarQube, OAuth 2.0, Kubernetes, Junit, Mockito, Angular 8. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Platform Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mexico City • Implementation of Backend platform solutions for security purposes such as user authentication and authorization services. • SoapUI, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Maven, Git, JSON. ### Automation Testing Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mexico City Area, Mexico • Development of automated tests for mobile apps using Perfecto cloud, Appium framework, testing, Bitbucket as source/control manager and Maven to manage dependencies. • Functional and regression testing for mobile app working under agile methodologies. • Development of IoT and robotic technology to automate banking apps testing processes. • Development of desktop tool-applications to semi-automate and speed up manual testing and script execution. • Development of automated test scripts in Selenium. • Analysis, design and execution of cases for product functionality testing, defect identification and inspection of web services. ### Junior Software Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Engineered an internal testing software reducing the manual testing time about 70 percent, allowing the tester focus on the functional part of the app. Recruited internally three times by different teams to tackle more complex technical challenges. Built security and orchestration APIs for five different product squads in the organization. Tech stack: Java8, Python3, MySQL, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, JPA, JUnit, SoapUI ### Computer Vision Engineer @ Wageningen University and Research Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Wageningen • Development of a yield-estimation algorithm for greenhouse tomato crop. • Development of RGBD applications to detect and measure phenotypic traits on greenhouse tomato plants for the Rob2Pheno project. • Maintenance of robotic hardware and machine vision system. ### Research Intern @ Unknown Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ## Education ### Agricultural Mechanical Engineer in Mechanical Engineering Universidad Autónoma Chapingo Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering UACh Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jaredzena - GitHub: https://github.com/JaredZena --- Source: https://flows.cv/jaredzena JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jaredzena/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22