# Kristina Totera

> Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kristina

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Bowery Farming
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Contributed as a full-stack engineer to BoweryOS, building backend services, interactive web UIs, and mobile-friendly scanner interfaces supporting farm operations.
- Partnered cross-functionally with Product and Design teams to deliver reliable features, translating business requirements into clear technical designs and specifications.
- Improved system reliability by providing test coverage, and diagnosing and resolving production issues through real-time debugging.

### Software Developer @ Liquidnet
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York
- Led development for the RDS Web Portal, a diagnostic web portal, that supports data retrieval and update functions, auditing, and displays trading data and analytics. Handled everything from development, design, testing, and data integration to deployment, documentation, and triaging issues.
- Developed and enhanced several Scala microservices which involved both MongoDB and Oracle database retrieval and updates, reading and writing to files, and producing both REST APIs and Protobuf messages sent over Solace.
- Implemented real time Flink streaming data pipelines that processed, transformed, and then published, various events and data, to Kafka topics.
- Handled staging and production deployments for the web portal, data services, and streaming jobs, using Bamboo for builds and Nolio for deployments.
- Collaborated effectively across various departments (Sales, Quant, Product, Product Support, QA, ETS, Networking, DBA, Deployment Services) to accomplish tasks needed for the completion of projects.
- Assisted in the ideation and execution of “Camp Codea” – Liquidnet’s in-house coding boot camp for high school girls. Volunteered as a committee member and coding helper for the program.

### Junior Software Developer @ Liquidnet
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States
- Decoupled the portal UI from its Groovy/Grails backend code base and utilized AngularJS entirely as its front end framework.
- Created new and updated existing functionality in the portal on both the server and client side.
- Participated in design and code reviews along with daily team scrum meetings that utilized Jira.

### Technology Intern @ Liquidnet
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New York, New York, United States
- Programmed new and upgraded existing features for an internal web portal.
- Transitioned the portal UI incrementally from a multi-page web application to a single-page web application using AngularJS.

### Management Information Systems IT trainer @ Bergen Regional Medical Center
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Paramus, New Jersey
Trained nurses and physicians on the use of web based medical programs including Paragon Web Station, ADS, and Clinical Care Station
Provided technical support and instruction to those who needed further assistance with successfully operating the programs
Evaluated physician operational performance and established goals to be worked towards
Collected feedback from physicians so that the program could be modified to better suit their needs


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics and Computer Science
College of Charleston
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### Ramapo High School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22