# Luis Gardea

> Senior Software Engineer at Instacart

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/luisgardea

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Key engineer for the Robot Data Platform/Infrastructure team, responsible for storage of vehicle data, ingestion and data processing, surfacing said data to various consumers, and triaging; mostly working in Python, C++
• Responsible for maintaining vehicle data framework and data frontend and backend services
• Build and maintain ingestion and data processing pipelines, which involve cross-team collaboration and planning with data producers
• Led security effort for data access by implementing authentication for internal services, continually working to improve security in other areas
• Collaborate with data science team to ensure data integrity, tracking of metrics and events in logs, aid with DMV reporting
• Collaborate with QA team in supporting event triage as part of ingestion pipeline

### Software Engineer @ Fitbit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked as part of the Fitbit Coach backend team, developing and maintaining APIs and various microservices; mostly worked in Ruby on Rails and Go
• Owned and maintained purchasing service; implemented purchase processing and validators for Apple IAP and Windows Store (UWP), as well as support for auto-renewing subscriptions
• Implemented native Fitbit authentication in the Fitbit Coach app in an effort to unify separate stacks and user bases, as well as to leverage Fitbit APIs
• Developed beta testing capabilities for testing unreleased workouts in production

### Software Engineering Intern @ Fitbit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Worked as part of the Fitstar platform team. Fitstar is a digital fitness company that specializes on generating dynamic workouts; it was acquired by Fitbit.
• Developed feature that allowed the customization of a specific type of workout to match a certain duration while preserving the formula of the workout; written in Go
• Wrote API to modify the method of retrieving user sessions (workouts) to be stored in new data structures and allowing the user access to more options and categories of workouts; written in Ruby on Rails

### Software Engineering Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater San Diego Area
• Designed and implemented an auto-triage tool to be used for debugging the Management Layer 1 in LTE Modems. The tool determines the module or modules responsible for a deadlock crash that occurs in LTE Modems and returns/prints necessary information
• All code written for the tool was written in C and the code for testing was written in C++

### Chemistry Research Intern @ The University of Texas at El Paso
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Conducted chemistry research in organic photovoltaics and presented findings at two symposia over two summers. Obtained mentorship from highly published post-doctoral research manager and gained skills in the utilization of advanced equipment over 640 hours


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### High School
Franklin High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/luisfgardea
- Website: https://luisgardea.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23