# Luis Gonzalez > Software Engineer @ Neon Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/luisgonzalez Studied Business and Data Science at Minerva University and have work experience in fast-paced startups and well-established corporations in multiple countries. I like to build stuff that scales and impacts people positively and love to solve challenges regardless of where they are located in the stack. I like to learn new technologies and languages, just as much as to play football and hiking. https://luis-resume.vercel.app/ ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Neon Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Neon is a modern payments and merchant-of-record platform that enables game studios to sell directly to their players. We focus on transparency, partnership, and developer-centric tooling that replaces legacy, black-box systems. - Working all over the stack. Greenlighting new features and offerings at Neon, like Subscriptions for game studios, dev tools to edit product offerings for games, adding new payment service providers etc... ### Senior Software Engineer @ KabCash Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States KabCash is a FinTech aiming to democratise financial services for Latin America. It offers an easy-to-use mobile platform giving access to one-time-use secure credit and debit cards. We are also integrated with financial institutions and convenience stores to help users digitalise their finances and improve financial inclusion. ● Joined team with goal for high growth. Six months after joinining, registered users getting credit cards has grown by 96x. ● Currently leading development for all new product features and took charge of multiple full product refactorings. (e.g. refactored app to use Tailwind for more straightfoward and reliable CSS code, upgraded all app packages and our code base to Expo 48 which improved app load time by 45%, refactored code for all push notifications on the app, made app PCI compliant etc..). Refactored the whole navigation system that we were using. ● Mainly using React Native and Typescript for developing our platform for both IOS and Android. Also created the companies website using Astro. ### (Co-Founder) Software Engineer @ Kadi - Sports Booking Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Mexico City, Mexico Kadi Clubs is a startup focused on creating a better sports club management experience (bookings, payments, analytics, etc.... ). An Airbnb for sport-related experiences. ● Part of the founding Team. Took Kadi from Ideation, Prototyping with user feedback to a live Platform. ● Full Stack Development using React, NextJS, Firebase, Vercel. Implemented Stripe for payment processing, and membership managment and got the company to be profitable within two months of operations. ● Over 20,000+ bookings and 150,000+ USD have been processed on the platform. ● 120 Clubs currently listed mainly in Mexico City, Puebla and Cuernavaca. ### Data Scientist @ BrightQuery Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ● Was invited to join a team of econometric and data researchers from MIT, Harvard and other universities to use alternative data for investment signaling for hedge funds. ● Worked with a remote team on scraping, cleaning, and productizing data from the IRS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the stock market. ● Created mathematical models in R to predict market growths for investment firms on a AWS’s EC2 Instances. ### Analytics Engineer @ Unilever Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company with over 400+ brands across the globe. ● Applied SEO Optimization to get the "Compre Ahora" website highly ranked on Google. ● Used Google Analytics to analyze customer behavior and Magento for sales analytics ● Final Result was an increase from 200 to 25,000 users daily. ### Frontend Developer @ Racemappr Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berlin Area, Germany ● Designed and Prototyped new app features implemented on the web-app. ● Used Adobe Creative Cloud to iteratively prototype and get user feedback with 40+ interviews. ### Founding Software Engineer @ dBay Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Tokyo, Japan dBay fue el primer mercado de NFTs https://www.dbay.ai/ ● Diseñe y cree la plataforma usando React y Solidity para los Smart Contracts ● Estableci el plan de negocios de la compañia y cree KPIs para obtener las metas apropiadas ### Technical Project Manager Intern @ Kakao Corp Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea ● Was the project lead for a Minerva and Kakao short term project with the mission to use Blockchain to incentivize individuals to buy kakao products inside of Kakao Talk. ● Designed a prototype front-end mobile application, based on analysis from customer data. The mock utilized gamification to motivate users, nudging through peer motivation and would record all the transactions on a closed source blockchain. The goal was to make users pick healthy habits (e.g. running more, swimming, reading etc..) ## Education ### Business and Computer Science Minerva University Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### International Baccalaureate (IB) Universidad de Monterrey Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### American International School of Budapest Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/luis-egv - Website: https://luis-resume.vercel.app/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/luisgonzalez JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/luisgonzalez/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01