Software Engineer with experience in full stack web development and DevOps, I'm passionate about building great web experiences for users and developers using the latest technologies (React, Node, Express, Testing Library).

2022 — 2024DiscordStaff Software Engineer

2022 — 2024

San Francisco Bay Area

Led a team of 5-6 engineers to deliver user-centric solutions within the Revenue organization, collaborating cross-functionally with Design, Product Management, and Data Engineering.

Architected the Discord Shop , a one-time payment system scaling to 1000+ RPS, generating

$20M+ in FY 2024 revenue and expanding Discord’s SKU offerings from tens to over 300.

· Designed and implemented Client Themes . Extended Discord front-end from light and dark

themes to support custom gradients, or background image themes. Adopted by over 50% of Nitro

subscribers and driving $4M in annual impact.

Released Avatar Decorations , driving increased user engagement through new inventory management and marketing upsell flows.

Improved User Profile surfaces and Custom URL feature, enhancing platform customization and

usability.

2020 — 2022YahooPrincipal Software Engineer

2020 — 2022

San Francisco

Team Tech Lead for Public Cloud Transition. Working on transitioning our user facing applications from our on-prem internal cloud (Kubernetes) into AWS EKS. Working with company central cloud leaders into designing and documenting the process to port multi-tiered user-facing production applications into AWS. Deliver a proof of concept for such transition. (EKS, IAM, Route53, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Hybrid Cloud, Instrumentation)

Tech Lead for Creative Reviewer project UI. Design and architect the MVP for a new Creative Reviewer tool to be used by external partner companies to manage ads showed on their properties. I worked with internal Reporting and API teams to design/implement the flows and delivered the first iterations for Microsoft, Disney and Apple to use. (React, Hooks, Node, UX).

Helped teams adapt applications and perform internal audits for COPPA & GDPR.

2016 — 2020YahooSenior Software Engineer

2016 — 2020

San Francisco, California, United States

Lead for the transition of the Flurry user facing application from VM based deployment into our internal container orchestration platform based on Kubernetes. Reworked the CI/CD process to streamline the new type of deployment and migrated production workload from old stack into new stack. Helped other front-end team transition into the platform. (Kubernetes, CI/CD, On-Prem Cloud, Instrumentation)

Transitioned into Flurry (Yahoo’s Mobile and Web Analytics Platform) team where I first was tasked on helping the team design and convert the Struts based user portal into a React/Node SPA using the flux paradigm. Worked on the UX for their dashboard and report generation implementations.

Designed and developed the integration of the OAuth2 flow for Google AdWords into Gemini Native application. Publishers could login into their AdWords account and transfer all eligible campaigns into their Yahoo accounts.

2014 — 2016YahooSoftware Engineer

2014 — 2016

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Development of Mobile Ad Formats such as the Tile format (stories-like ads) using lightweight template parsing and rendering, device caching and other optimizations techniques to allow fast loading on mobile devices. (Vanilla JS, HTML5, AMP, Responsive Design).

Rewrite of the Yahoo Gemini Native user facing application from YUI/PHP to AngularJS/Node. I transitioned to the team as an expert on AngularJS where I mentored developers on the framework and worked towards feature parity.

Multi-browser (Firefox, Chrome) extensions to help publishers onboard their properties into our Stream ads offering.

2012 — 2014Index (acquired by Stripe)Member of Technical Staff

2012 — 2014

San Francisco, California, United States

Point of Sale/PIN Pad application using AngularJS that was deployed to tablet devices for in-store transaction.

Developed an Email API micro-service using Spring to generate receipts, coupons, vouchers and marketing material and deliver to customers.

Worked on streamlining the company multi-device demo software.

Education

Universidad de Sevilla

Msc. Computer Science and Engineering

CodePath

Experience+

Education

Msc. Computer Science and Engineering

Android Facebook Bootcamp