# Rafael Reyes

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Chula Vista, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rafaelreyes

## Work Experience
### Staff UI Software Engineer @ Demandbase
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area (Remote)
Currently the Lead UI Engineer on Ads team building a seamless user experience for users to draft/publish video/display/CTV advertising campaigns against targeted accounts/personas with extensive React-based storybook library

Pushing for quality by utilizing GPT/CoPilot to bolster and increase unit test coverage with React Testing Library/Jest and Playwright

Mentoring junior engineers and working with product/UX to plan projects at a high level and developing in depth technical documentation on feature implementation

Previously lead a team in the Customer Data Platform category.

Developing new features and enhancing usability of the Demandbase app specifically by expanding the user interface and experience after integrating with CRMs and marketing automation systems.

Creating a seamless user experience to allow clients to orchestrate marketing and sales processes.

Using the latest and greatest React web stack and testing libraries to build robust user interfaces in an agile environment with the use of an extensive component library.

### Staff UI Software Engineer @ Demandbase
Jan 2021 – Present

### Principal Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Diego, California, United States
Building new web features including a map presentation mode that allows our users to watch through situational awareness scenarios in real time around a globe. Currently implementing the latest and greatest modern web technologies and continuously delivering on customer needs.

Creating robust and scalable backend API for command and control application.
Building an easy to use and intuitive web application and pioneering the modernization efforts.
Architecting key data models that are used across large-scale applications.

Webstack: 
Java Backend (using Jersey/JAXRS/Jackson for our REST API) with fully customized interfaces
React/Redux JS (ES6) / HTML / SASS Frontend

### Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater San Diego Area
Developing a marine workflow tool that will assist in training and performing real time scenarios at the command level using React/Redux for front end layer and java to implement RESTful backend services. Pioneering a huge effort to modernize front-end and general software developmental effort.

Created a task tracking application that assists project managers in creating helpful reports to present to our customers using mostly vanilla javascript.

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ SOCi, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Diego, CA
Designed, built, integrated, and aggregated an events search engine feature using the Eventbrite API for the SOCi platform to provide clients with the ability to lookup local events and post/share them to their social media platforms and content feeds.

Architected and lead an effort in building a web app that allows Upwork freelance writers/editors to create content for small to medium businesses across the nation.

Participated in screening and interviewing software engineering and program management prospects to enhance the technical department.

### Junior Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, CA
Developed a Situational Awareness global map application that displayed data points communicated from a closed network that provided critical decision making and observation for users.

Fortified and secured systems that ultimately protected payload and sensitive resources.

### Software Engineer Intern @ SPAWAR
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Diego, CA
Provided Intern level support to create and maintain data sources on a Google Web Tookit (GWT) based communications application that implemented an ad hoc key encryption algorithm. Also worked with Java, XML, and ActionScript to create widgets that would be used on a legacy user interface to control a complicated command system.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering
San Diego State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rafaelreyes24

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Last updated: 2026-03-22