# Nicolas Galvez > Senior full-stack developer with 18+ years building web applications, APIs, and AI developer tools. Looking for a long-term home. Contracting between full-time roles while I find the right fit. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nicolasgalvez I’m an empathetic tech lead and programmer with 18 years of experience in Linux, Object-Oriented PHP, MySQL, and Javascript/CSS/HTML. I have designed and managed scalable applications with millions of concurrent users and experience working with RESTful APIs. I have a very good knowledge of Scrum and Agile methodologies. I’m a WordPress core contributor, and and have made several contributions to open-source projects over my career. I have a proven record of taking projects through all phases of development from idea to design to post-launch. "I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." - Van Gogh, Letter to Anthon van Rappard (1885) ​ ## Work Experience ### Tech Lead @ Hello World Jan 2025 – Present Contracting via Procyon Creative. Development agency specializing in Laravel, WordPress, and AWS serverless architectures. • Full-stack Laravel and WordPress development across multiple product lines • NetSuite/Stripe e-commerce integrations and subscription management • API documentation (Scramble), CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions), and AWS architecture • End-to-end testing (Playwright) and New Relic APM monitoring • RAG framework development for internal developer productivity tools • AWS serverless architecture design and implementation (SAM, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB) ### Senior Full-Stack Developer @ Procyon Creative Jan 2019 – Present | Oakland, CA Independent consulting practice between full-time roles. • Built a Python RAG pipeline with LangChain and Qdrant for AI-powered codebase search, exposed via FastMCP server to improve LLM understanding of internal systems. • Designed AWS serverless data sync (SAM, Lambda, Step Functions) integrating three third-party APIs with OAuth 2.0. • Laravel and WordPress e-commerce integrations with NetSuite and Stripe. • Led React and WordPress development projects for UC Davis and other California colleges with a focus on WCAG compliance. • Vue.js, Tailwind, and Twig frontend development on WordPress and Drupal. ### Web Development Lead @ Launch Brigade Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Santa Cruz, California, United States Established engineering, QA, design, CI/CD, and asset handoff policy resulting in 10%-20% efficiency gains Managed 2 in-house and international teams and worked with clients to generate detailed project requirements and estimates. Drafted the now-standard clauses for device support, design revisions, and change orders to our contracts; reducing thousands in potential losses and 50% reduction in project length. Developed applications using WordPress, React, AWS serverless, LangChain, LLM chatbot and vector databases. ### Software Engineering Team Lead @ The Clorox Company Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Oakland, CA Oversaw sysadmin, backend, front-end, and mobile projects with multi-million dollar budgets and internationally recognized brands. Concurrently managed developers in up to 6 brands with multiple projects per brand and several multinational teams. Created the API and documentation for the company’s first mobile application with 220k downloads and developed the base class library for subsequent mobile APIs. Reviewed SoWs and contracts for technical accuracy, increasing the specificity of metrics with vendors which resulted in up to 10% performance gain, and a significant reduction in errors and maintenance hours. ### Senior Software Development Engineer @ The Clorox Company Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Oakland, CA Developed in-house WordPress themes (with Twig, HandlebarsJS) and plugins. Contributed to internal SDK using Symfony and a custom ORM. Improved front-end performance by several seconds by transitioning to Webpack, Babel, and using dynamic imports and lazy loading. Setup Rest API integration testing using Jasmine and headless browsers. ### Frontend Web Developer @ YapStone, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Walnut Creek, CA Advocated for and implemented JavaDoc standards for our codebase and created a wiki for documentation to reduce tribal knowledge. Converted 4 static HTML marketing sites to WordPress which improved speed of content change turnaround by 50% and reduced developer time by almost 75%. Modernized front-end by implementing separation of presentation and logic, NPM/JavaScript/CSS libraries, and getting rid of table-based layouts. Insisted on adding all code to version control that was previously edited directly on the server. Designed a LAMP server using CentOS with load balancing and redundant DB clusters as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate modern alternatives to static HTML to management and convinced them a CMS could be PCI compliant and highly available. ### Junior Software Engineer @ YapStone, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Managed the collection of static HTML sites for marketing. Worked on the JSP portions of the application. Coded pixel perfect HTML/CSS from mockups. Volunteered for Loaves and Fishes, Culture Committee member, and company hosted tech meetups. ### IT Support/QA Analyst @ Dealer Fusion Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 | Concord Was promoted several times filling the roles of IT support I, II, Software Engineer/QA Analyst. Created QA department test plans, practices, test cases and policies and built test suites with PHPUnit, Selenium, and virtual machines. Responsible for maintaining our inventory feed distribution system in Perl/PHP to cars.com, autotrader.com, carfax.com, and many other nationally recognized brands. Built and wired a 6 person call center in the spare office (including the cubicles). Played keyboards in the company band. ## Education ### Associate's degree in Computer Science Diablo Valley College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickgalvez - Website: https://www.nickgalvez.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/nicolasgalvez JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nicolasgalvez/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05