# Nicolas Rodriguez

> Senior Software Engineer @ ONE

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicolasrodriguez

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ OnePay
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
- Rearchitected central components of event-sourced framework responsible for handling 15B Kafka messages daily, resulting in an 80% decrease in consumer lag and 95% CPU / memory usage reduction.
  - Seamlessly migrated 500+ real-time consumers between frameworks w/o delays, errors, or data loss.
- Redesigned retry mechanism backing 800+ Kafka consumers using DynamoDB as an intermediate store, improving retry delivery time and compute efficiency, reducing CPU / memory usage by 93%.
  - Introduced additional platform features: exponential backoff, DLQ, deeper monitoring + observability
- Developed a scalable pattern for building self-service tooling for devs to interact with the platform utilizing Lambdas.
- Discovered and resolved multi-year old bug in core libraries, bringing platform-sourced error rate closer to 0%.
- Added batch processing to custom data aggregation tooling, lowering write volume by 1000x during high load periods.

### Founding Senior Software Engineer @ Soho
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, NY
- Acquired by Sound.xyz
- Built self-healing data ingestion system to process, enrich, and index millions of blockchain transactions and async events per day using AWS SQS and Lambda.
- Designed and implemented paginated home feed architecture that scaled to support dozens of unique content types, as well as natively supported caching for expensive modules. This surface comprises 25% of all time spent in the app.
- Refactored bottomsheets across the app, preventing background rendering and app slowdowns of 15+ seconds for older mobile phones.
- Managed Postgres database quality and health, optimizing queries, indexes, and connection pooling via PGBouncer.
- Extended app for release on Android, reaching feature parity with iOS app.
- Developed recurring async process for tracking arbitrary NFT portfolios and calculating total value, including users with 10k+ items.
- Refactored core data structure to support multiple currencies and new user onboards without mass deletions and re-ingestion. Successfully completed mass migration of 50M+ rows.
- Implemented Datadog monitoring to track success rate of async tasks and notification sends which helped identify system outages and bring success rates close to 100%.
- Led 3 other engineers in effort to audit client-side logging before public app store release.

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Owned E2E implementation of personalized Shop and Product feed units which received 20M+ daily impressions and became one of the largest GMV drivers on Instagram.
  - Became tech lead for resulting workstream - led 3 other engineers, developing specs for various UI optimization experiments for them to implement.
  - Managed collaboration between 6 ML and product teams running experiments on our surface.
  - Designed and implemented various experiments to maximize ads budget and promotion utilization, resulting in further GMV growth.
  - Expanded feature to Stories surface, delegating client implementation to partner teams, adding 10M+ impressions daily to recommended Shops and Products.
- Extended Shopping Notification System by building data pipelines and backend to support notifying users of relevant new sales and discounts, increasing on-platform GMV.
- Presented tech talk on experimentation process and implementation to 20+ SWE and DS in IG Shopping pillar.
- Managed intern who built Shopping Notifications with topline impact to buyers. Intern later converted to full-time.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Developed new Facebook Stories feature full-stack, from backend data model design to iOS client-side
- Extended new Objective-C framework for easier client-side development in the future
- Delegated tasks to full-time engineers to develop Android client-side for new feature

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
- Corrected service to better detect employee status changes and reduce unnecessary alerts
- Extended service to automatically transfer data pipelines as well as tables after employee status changes
- Created new asynchronous Python 3 service to notify employees of unsecured data pipelines

### Software Engineering Intern @ Impact Labs Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Improved portfolio creation algorithms to handle and include international companies
- Expanded database by researching and scoring companies across several causes and issues

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
- Learned iOS app development using Swift via Codepath’s 3-week programming course
- Collaborated with team members and manager to build iOS app from the ground up within 5 weeks
- Utilized Parse and mongoDB to develop server backend for mobile app
- Showcased completed project to fellow interns and full time employees across multiple offices

### Undergraduate Researcher for KamLAND-Zen @ MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA
- Simulated reactions to generate neutrino-less double beta decay events
- Analyzed simulations to filter out background energies using a neural network

### Quality Assurance and Research Intern @ EyeVerify
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
- Improved facial recognition algorithm through annotation of 6,000+ images
- Developed biometric anti-spoof methods using internal sensors of mobile phones
- Presented to corporate executives to showcase benefits of EyePrintID

### Telecommunications Intern @ Black & Veatch
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Overland Park, KS
- Worked closely with professional engineers on project to replace antennas on cell towers across the US
- Responsible for editing and reviewing CAD drawings of cell phone tower sites in various metro areas

### Cashier @ Cosentino's Price Chopper
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Olathe, KS

### Engineering Intern @ Professional Engineers, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Olathe, KS
- Edited CAD drawings, printed and bound them for client presentations
- Designed safety labels to be utilized at telecommunications campus for machinery


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Mathematics and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### High School
Olathe Northwest High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicolas-rodriguez-40a7bb126

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Last updated: 2026-03-22