# José Miguel Colella > Staff Software Engineer at Gusto Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/josmiguelcolella Passionate about new technologies. Driven by excellency, as well as hard work, I love to meet challenges head on, and learn from my experiences. I pride myself in being able to communicate my knowledge and collaborate within a team. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer (L5) - Compliance Advisory @ Gusto Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area - Technical team lead for the Compliance Advisory team, who is tasked with development of a compliance platform to enable customers to understand their compliance status and drive actionability, as well as empowering our product team with contextual compliance information - Responsible for building the prototype for codifying and automating compliance requirements - Authored and reviewed key tech specs, test plans, ownership boundaries, and on-call runbooks to support the platform rollout. - Coordinated cross-team technical reviews and provided hands-on engineering support ### Staff Software Engineer IV - Compliance Advisory @ Gusto Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Building the platform to empower product team with all things compliance ### Staff Software Engineer IV - Comms Platform @ Gusto Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for shared UX surfaces and experiences. Building a communication platform and APIs that App teams use to engage with customers and deliver a consistent, high quality experience. These strategies include Todos, emails, recommendations and feature awareness ### Staff Software Engineer IV - Growth @ Gusto Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Working in the Growth Experience Foundation segment to provide user experience frameworks that enable teams to create more cohesive and interoperable experiences across Gusto. - Responsible for the recommendation center, unifying communications (right channel, right message, right person) for the Gusto application ecosystem, and unifying end-user application workflows. ### Senior Software Engineer III - Growth @ Gusto Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Working for the Growth Foundation segment to build the growth components like Experimentation, Analytics, Targeting, CMS for Gusto. - Led and implemented the project across Growth Foundation and Expansion to bring ML and Experimentation to the in app Rec Center. This lead to the creation of the first ML prioritized recommendations. Worked on all the backend DB models and UI changes to be fully self-serve. Build the architecture and lead the implementation to deliver the entire project within a strict timeline - Add cross segment and platformization support to in-app recommendation center to enable Members and Accountants to also use the recommendation center - Made CMS enhancements and built a staging environment for CMS which now enables marketing to publish pages on staging only for internal review - Added WebP support to gcorp images. Created a lambda function that automatically converts all images uploaded to the CDN to webp and serves them if the browser supports. This has led to an improvement in performance and traffic to Gusto - Performance improvements to gcorp. Improved P75 response times from 490ms to approximately 135ms - Researched and brought in an SSO plugin for wordpress which secures our CMS from having a public login url. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Dynatrace Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Detroit, Michigan, United States - Responsible for leading the software lifecycle of a Customer Intelligence application backend built on NodeJS (Typescript), Docker, AWS. - Responsible for maintaining quality of the application, and providing people within the team with guidance on best practices. - Onboard new members into the code-base, architecture, and how the applications fits into the Digital Business platform ### Software Developer @ Dynatrace Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Detroit, Michigan - Responsible for the software lifecycle of the backend implementation of a Customer Intelligence application developed in NodeJS, Docker, and AWS - Responsible for Continuous Integration and Delivery of the application utilizing Jenkins - Responsible for integrating various data sources whether external API, internal API, as well as database sources - Migrating production application and shared library components to nx monorepo ### Lead Consultant @ Dynatrace Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Madrid Area, Spain Providing expertise and best practices on Application Performance Management concepts and positioning services with customers. Driving the quality of our service offerings in the local market and creating a closer relationship with the local sales and customer success managers. Responsibilities include: - Leading the local service team by examples on technology and driving value through adoption. - Aiding the local sales team on putting large and strategic service proposals together, in particularly promoting Guardian services in Southern EMEA market. - Promoting the value of Dynatrace services in local market by join the regular sales meetings, and speaking in local marketing events. ### Guardian Consultant @ Dynatrace Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Providing expertise and best practice on Application Performance Management concepts, involving enterprise wide monitoring solutions via a market leading software suite. Inclusive of project management and knowledge of cutting edge technologies and there impact on today's business. Utilizing the data gained from application performance monitoring to help make informed business critical decisions. ### Professional Development Program @ Dynatrace Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 The Professional Development Program is the most comprehensive Dynatrace APM training program available on the planet. Graduates of this program receive over 5 months of training with a curriculum spanning from core APM principles to detailed deep-dive Dynatrace technology training. In addition to technology skills, the program also focuses on Business and Soft Skills to prepare graduates to be effective consultants on customer engagements. PDP graduates acquire their skills through a mixture of formal instruction, labs, mentorship, and peer shadowing. From enrolment to graduation, the PDP member strives to solve and learn from various business and technology related challenges that our customers face on a daily basis ### Software Engineer @ Survela Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Granada, Spain Designing and implementing software for the back-end and front-end. Responsibilities include building integration with third party services for the company using PHP, and Python, as well developing the front-end using the MVC framework AngularJS. ### Software Developer Internship @ Survela Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Granada, Spain Aiding in the development of front-end and back-end features for the company. Designing and implementing software for the back-end and front-end. Responsibilities include building integration with third party services for the company using PHP, and Python, as well developing the front-end using the MVC framework AngularJS. ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering Universidad de Granada ### Computer Engineering Politecnico di Milano ### GED in High School Diploma Creative and Performing Arts Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josemiguelcolella --- Source: https://flows.cv/josmiguelcolella JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/josmiguelcolella/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31