# Paolo Roxas

> Software Engineer

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

I am a full stack Javascript/Ruby software engineer with 4+ years of experience working with React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and AWS.

I strive to deliver intuitive, stimulating user experiences that make it a joy to stay engaged. As user participation grows, I aim to create performant, scalable systems that respond quickly and seamlessly under heavy load.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Gusto
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ VoiceOps
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco
- Achieved a sustained 300% increase in user comments / week by leading the development of mentions, hashtags, shortcuts, and UI redesign for comments  - Draft.js, React, Redux, Rails
- Directed the design, implementation, customer communication, and monitoring of 5 new customer integrations in order to process 6000+ audio files per week - Ruby, Python, S3, FTP, SFTP, EC2
- Proposed, generated POC, and implemented drag and drop functionality for coaching forms within a 1 week timeframe to prevent a key customer from churning - React DnD, React, Redux, Rails
- Wrote 30% of our codebase’s initial documentation, involving 9 modules and over 5000 words, to facilitate engineer onboarding and decrease development time

### Software Engineer @ WeGot Restaurant Reviews (Project) http://bitly.com/wegotRestaurants
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
A restaurant review website with a modular architecture, based on Zagat’s styling
- Reduced page load time by 16% by deploying with an alternate AWS EC2 and Docker configuration
- Maintained 83%+ statement coverage with Jest and Enzyme tests for consistency and error prevention
- Coordinated microservices with a Node proxy server for modular and easily scalable design

### Software Engineer @ Chompy (Project)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
A responsive API capable of delivering restaurant data at low latency under heavy load
- Achieved under 1 sec latency at 10,000rps load by using New Relic data to scale out AWS t2 micro/small instances
- Configured, indexed, and scaled multi-node Cassandra cluster to query 10M records in under 35ms
- Modeled efficacy of Redis in 2 power curve request distributions to determine when caching improves latency

### Software Engineer @ StockFeels (Project)   http://bitly/stockfeels
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
A stock price and Twitter sentiment analysis app with a minimalist, modern interface
- Designed a Bag of Words algorithm on 80,000 word corpus to assign an influence-weighted Twitter sentiment score
- Improved page load speed by 15% with server-side rendering in React for a fast and responsive UX
- Separated MVC concerns with Redux for greater encapsulation and decoupling of components

### Investment Advisors Summer Analyst @ Allen & Company LLC.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York City
- Designed, conducted, and presented company valuation analysis to Corporate Finance division
- Updated client-facing documentation to reflect changes in investment strategy and valuations
- Composed reports on earnings calls and industry outlook presentations for portfolio companies

### Candidate Surrogate @ Liberal Party Presidential Campaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Philippines
- Delivered over 30 speeches on at major campaign events across the Philippines, personally communicating candidate's platform and principles to tens of thousands of participants
- Automated tasks in presentation and analysis of survey data by distributing a VBA Macro to team, reducing necessary work-hours by 75%


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics
Yale University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
Hack Reactor

### Intermediate Modern Chinese
Harvard Beijing Academy

### Summer Program in Public Finance, Political Economy of Public Policy
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23