# Marvin Caragay

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/marvincaragay

After developing Lost & Found system and User Request Form while working as IT Specialist in the Hospitality industry for several years. My desire to pursue my passion for software development is too much to ignore. I went through 800hrs of Software Engineering training at Hack Reactor, hired myself out as a freelancer, and volunteer to a non profit organization. I’m looking forward to bringing my passion to a full-time role.

Skills
JavaScript ES6+, React, React Native, Redux, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Babel, Webpack, Material-UI, Styled-Components, Bootstrap, Node, Express, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, GraphQL, Redis, Nginx, AWS (EC2, S3)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Clearstory.build
Jan 2022 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer - volunteer @ Spicy Green Book
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Anaheim, California, United States
• Improve overall performance by 13%, refactoring and preventing unnecessary re-renders of react components
• Handle programming duties including web and native design.
• Implement a navigation system to enhance user experience on native platforms.
• Maintain/Resolve application bugs and ensure compatibility on both web and native platforms.
• Collaborate with the head of engineering, founder, and other engineers to produce creative and efficient solutions.

### Software Engineer - Personal Project @ Personal Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Gareta |  Web/React Native application online store
• Utilized Firebase authentication/storage - Google api to authenticate/save users’ credential to allow CRUD operations
• Integrate payment system using Stripe api for seamless payment processing

### Ravingz - Software Enigneer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Ravingz (System Architecture Design) 
• Scaled/deployed Image service of Restaurant Profile System (RPS) to handle 1000 rps, less than 1% error rate, and low latency on EC2 t2.micro

• Deployed and populated 4 Cassandra nodes for high availability and partition tolerance  with 10 million primary and 70 million secondary records for a read-heavy RPS on t2.micros

• Performed horizontal scaling with load balancer (Nginx) that resulted in a 300% increase in throughput with 0% error rate, and 61ms avg rps

### Himm - Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Himm (Service Architecture Design)
 • Implemented React Hooks to simplify the business logic of Property Reservation System (PRS) and Context with useReducer to centralize state to improve code reuse and composition of components
 • Managed the deployment of PRS’s services into a multiple AWS EC2 instance in Dockerized containers on multiple AWS EC2 instances.
 • Led daily Scrum meetings and managed project goals on Trello ticketing system to ensure 100% completion of sprint goals
 • Helped team deploy services to EC2 and Docker to meet deliverables and successfully delivered a fully functioning PRS system

### IT Specialist @ Rosewood Sand Hill
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California
• Developed User Request Form for managers using SharePoint and Microsoft Flow resulting in an increase productivity by 10%

• Built Lost and Found App using PowerApps and OneDrive to modernize the Security Team L&F System (excel spreadsheet).

• Handled support tickets with software and hardware vendors, evaluated, determined root cause, collaborated with internal and external technical support to ensure 100% problem resolution

### Server/Cashier @ Pinoy Lechon Restaurant
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA
-Serve food to customer 
-Take orders from customer


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Software Engineering
San José State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Software Engineering
Hack Reactor


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20