Senior backend engineer with 10+ years building APIs, microservices, and automation workflows in Node.js/TypeScript and Laravel. Most recently Director of Engineering at GovAssist (stayed hands-on), where I designed event-driven systems on AWS, shipped payment integrations, and owned infrastructure end-to-end.

Experience

2022 — 2026GovAssistDirector of Engineering

2022 — 2026

Puerto Rico

Designed, implemented and maintained backend systems in Node.js/TypeScript across APIs, workers, and event-driven microservices on AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge)

Delivered payment and third-party integrations with secure auth and stable data flows

Built and owned AWS infrastructure with container deployments, monitoring, and alerting

2017 — 2022GovAssistEngineering Lead

2017 — 2022

Puerto Rico

Led remote engineering teams building Laravel, Vue, React, and Node.js applications

Built custom payment platform with major gateway integrations

Managed infrastructure across AWS, DigitalOcean; implemented CI/CD pipelines