# Jorel Ballena

> Senior Software Engineer at Candid™

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jorel

Obsessed with building user experiences that are clean and intuitive to use.  I pride myself in shipping code that is not only performant, but also easy to maintain and reason about.  Having worked up and down the stack throughout my career I consider myself stack agnostic and find joy in learning new technologies whenever the opportunity arises.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Candid™
Jan 2019 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Honey
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Core team member to delivering the Honey Digital Wallet + Universal Checkout experience
• Worked alongside product managers, designers and fellow engineers in developing and releasing Honey’s inaugural mobile application
• Served as subject matter expert for Honey Internal SDK aiding in implementation of third-party store integrations
• Designed and developed several internal dashboards to monitor and administer mission critical modules

### Web Developer @ SRK Consulting
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Vancouver, Canada Area
• Refactored form-heavy web apps with KnockoutJS to improve code maintainability and reduce development time
• Constructed interactive employee visualization tool with Chart.js to provide customizable payroll database querying
• Built web application using Google Maps API to display interactive data points demoed at industry trade shows
• Migrated legacy web applications from Web Forms to MVC by decoupling data repositories and business logic into separate libraries in order to maximize code reuse
• Greatly improved UX during large data streams by establishing bidirectional communication between client and server via WebSockets

### Service Desk Technician @ SRK Consulting
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
• Automated company-wide software counts using System Center Configuration Manager queries and Powershell scripts to aggregate installed instances of enterprise licensed software
• Primary on-site support technician for the largest SRK office in North America
• Worked daily with remote team members to maintain a high QoS throughout NA
• Handled transaction of server backups to offsite facilities


## Education
### Diploma of Technical Studies in Computer Information Systems Technology
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22