# Ray Furtado

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rayfurtado

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Castle
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Team Lead @ WorkRamp
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
- Enabled key enterprise deals by delivering integrations with Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, and HRIS
systems (Merge and Lattice)
- Served as technical liaison between engineering and product teams, aligning priorities and roadmaps

### Software Engineer @ WorkRamp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed and maintained a comprehensive component library that enforced UI/UX best practices and standardized design patterns across the platform, resulting in improved consistency and efficiency in development.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers, to gather requirements, provide technical insights, and deliver high-quality solutions that met project objectives and deadlines.
- Led successful third-party integrations, including Segment.io, by collaborating with stakeholders, conducting thorough technical assessments, and implementing robust solutions that enhanced platform functionality and data management.
- Conducted technical interviews across all levels of the organization, evaluating candidates' technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and cultural fit, contributing to the growth and success of the engineering team.

### Software Engineer @ BNY Mellon | Eagle Investment Systems
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston
- Designed and implemented performant and scalable front and back-end microservices, using Angular, Java/Spring Boot and MySQL, for BNY’s cloud-based data and analytics platform
- Integrated the Data Vault front end with a suite of Machine Learning based data quality checks, enabling clients to quickly validate and cleanse data to gain actionable insights
- Created dashboard mockups using Balsamiq for rapid product prototyping and ideation
- Collaborated with PO and UX teams, using tools like Storybook, for rapid development process
- Responsible for increasing test coverage from ~75% to 93% through test driven development
- Integrated widgets(built with ChartJS) to fetch data via GraphQL to provide users advanced
flexibility to view their data

### Web Developer @ Profitect, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston
- Automated post release deployments with Python and selenium to validate releases and check integrity of development environment 
- Built microservice with Node/Express and React to connect to customer’s database to display data in the Profitect portal
- Built Python tool to interact with production environments and notify customers of relevant data changes
- Responsible for creating and maintaining various Angular components that provide the foundation for the client portal
- Built UI widgets for customer insights dashboard. A key visualization tool on the customer portal
- Worked with backend developers  to establish optimal client/server communications
- Active role in technical screening of interns


## Education
### University of Connecticut
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ray-furtado
- GitHub: https://github.com/ray11furtado

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Last updated: 2026-04-01