# Nenita C.

> hands-on software engineering leader | ex-Square, LendingClub, MTV

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

Experienced engineering leader with years of hands-on experience at fintechs, startups, and companies like Square, MTV, LendingClub, and Varomoney. Demonstrated ability in leading the execution and delivery of critical consumer-facing products and platform initiatives as a developer, architect, and hands-on leader. Skilled in OO, functional, backend, full stack, API and microservices programming using java, React, node, Swift, and more, plus Agile and Scrum methodologies and financial compliance

SKILLS
• Java, Spring Boot/Cloud, React ecosystem, Swift, nodejs, AWS, jms/messaging, graphQL, kafka,
docker and more with RDBMS and noSQL storage using postgres and mysql. Github repo (user: nacasuga) contains iOS app and React website code – private but available to see upon request
• Experience in various startup stages (Series A to exit), midsize, and large public companies

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Highnote
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### On Sabbatical @ Sabbatical
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
A career hiatus to focus on long-term personal goals of traveling, learning a new language, advancing
technical and professional skills, and healthier living. Traveled to Spain, Croatia, Germany, Iceland, France, South Korea, Japan, and Thailand. 
• Achievements: (2023) Released a free financial iOS app using Swift. Launched a cloud-hosted
personal website using React, NodeJS, and GraphQL. (2022) On a personal note, traveled for a
year and learned basic Spanish
• Enhanced technical and programming skills by learning and deep diving on functional,
mobile, and full stack development as well as understanding the latest OO trends in java
and Spring ecosystems and Python
• Tech stack: Swift, React (JSX, JS, Webpack/CRA, Redux, Typescript), Nodejs, GraphQL,
mySql, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Cloud / Boot, java19

### Engineering Manager @ Square
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
People, project, and technical management of the identity verification and business activation team of 8
responsible for the KYC and KYB services for Square in all countries, business types, and channels
• Notable Delivered KPIs: Build configurable platform that supports any verification
method, vendor, and complex businesses with 1-n ownerships. Deliver APIs and libraries
for products in all countries and channels (online, POS). Launch Square in Ireland within
a year using doc upload+image capture IDV
• Managed the team’s hiring, growth & health, vision, performance, OKRs, and funding.
Grew it by 100% resulting in a diverse team of 50% women and minority and different
seniority levels while addressing existing churns and challenges
• Managed executions, priorities, timeline, and deliverables using Agile. Mitigated risks via
metrics, streamlined MVPs, swarming, SoS, milestones, knowledge sharing, DRIs. Use
case: Successful migration of sellers from 5 countries to the new platform with negligible
error rates
• Managed product for a year including requirements, roadmap and OKRs, business
reviews, product launches
• Facilitated the technical speaker series, a recurring org-level knowledge sharing event
that gives engineers the opportunity to hone their communication and presentation skills
• Tech stack: REST, java, go, ruby, grpc+protobuf, mysql, github, jenkins, datadog,
Snowflake

### Senior Engineering Manager @ LendUp
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Managed the Data Team’s growth & health, roadmap, OKRs and project executions.
Implemented engineering best practices, agile methodologies, and scrum processes
• Tech stack: python, django

### Senior Director Of Engineering @ Varo Money Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Hands-on engineering lead responsible for people and technical management of Lending’s full stack team
• Notable Delivered KPIs: Launch of 2 mobile lending products within 6-12 months
• Developed core backend features, authored foundational architecture and cloud-based,
multi-tenant APIs using best practices while partnering with global distributed teams
• Partnered with executives and product in roadmap and milestones definition while
managing the project plans, deliverables, priorities, and resources
• Managed roadblocks, risks, quality, team performance and execution through mentorship,
streamlined MVPs, backlog management, design and code reviews, API contracts,
automated API tests and white box tests for complex underwriting matrixes
• Tech stack: REST, java, j2ee, docker, salesforce, aws, amazon sns/sqs/s3, hibernate,
postgresql, git, memcached

### Software Architect @ LendingClub
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Notable Delivered KPIs: Launch Alibaba Line of Credit product within a year. Service
other loan products and build for scale. Team / project size: 15 / 40
• Led the core backend platform rebuild as the primary contributor writing the foundational
architecture and major APIs. Its goals are code reuse and servicing of the current, new,
and future loan types. Business use case: Alibaba Line of Credit
• Managed the team’s roadmap, deliverables, and priorities and led the cross-discipline
collaborations with product, engineering, data, devops and vendors
• Built for scale, reuse, resiliency, and quality using abstraction, microservices best
practices, code reviews, and automated unit, integration, white box simulation tests in a
CI
• Tech stack: REST, java, j2ee, kafka, activemq, oracle, spring boot, jenkins, maven,
splunk, sonarqube, microservices

### Lead Architect @ Netpulse
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Unlocked fast growth by building SaaS products and multi-tenant APIs for white-labeled
sites, branded apps and fitness equipments while developing features like workout
aggregations, rewards, and gamification for engagement
• Managed teams of global distributed engineers including architecture collaboration and
design and code reviews
• Developed engineering best practices using service-oriented architecture, REST APIs,
async processing, alerts, monitoring
• Tech stack: REST, java, j2ee, aws, cassandra, neo4j, mysql

### Senior Software Engineer @ Viacom
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Rebuilt addictinggames.com site in < year with 0 downtime from 5k static to 40 pages
resulting in a dynamic experience and new contents in 5m instead of 1d. It is a 25M+
MAU, multi-million $ revenue source and one of the largest free US gaming sites at that
time
• Reduced load time by 500% through memcached, CDNs, minification, domain sharding,
image spriting
• Tech stack: java, j2ee

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ebates
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Reduced order and payment processing time to 30m from 18h while rebuilding the back
offices with 0 downtime
• Unlocked business expansions and better customer experience (e.g. tiered commission,
real-time order display) through the SOA and event-based re-platform of back offices
• Built the core back offices including rebate and commissions, promotion, order and
payment systems (only cash during this time with cards and gift cards in the works)
• Pioneered engineering processes such as QE, design principles and code reviews
• Tech stack: java, j2ee


## Education
### Bachelor in Information Technology
Polytechnic University of the Philippines


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nenita
- Website: http://nenitarac.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-01