Results-driven Software Engineer specializing in building scalable applications. Leveraging expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and Python to develop robust back-end solutions. While crafting responsive user experiences with React.js and Vue.js.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Architected and owned the entire backend infrastructure for early-stage legal-tech startup, designing scalable microservices architecture supporting daily active users across many organizations.
Established CI/CD pipeline from scratch using GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes and enabling simple daily deployments with zero-downtime releases.
Led technical architecture decisions for core platform, evaluating and implementing technology stack choices that reduced infrastructure costs by 40% while improving performance and stability.
Established engineering best practices including code review standards, testing requirements, and architectural guidelines for our growing engineering team.
Led system replatforming from Directus to NestJS, reducing response times by 60%, improving developer productivity by 40%, and establishing foundation for platform growth.
Mentored 3 engineers through code reviews and pair programming, accelerating their progression and establishing team's technical standards.
Designed critical systems including high-performance marketplace search (80% faster queries), Stripe payment integration (enabling in the moment transactions and subscriptions), and an automated cron platform (eliminated 10 hours/week of manual work).
Starbucks:
Led development of critical API infrastructure within Starbucks' federated GraphQL platform,
handling 1000s of requests per second across the company's global digital presence.
Architected and implemented major platform integrations (Delta partnership) through Apollo Federated Graph, 99.9% uptime while maintaining strict API governance.
Drove technical documentation initiatives to improve cross-team collaboration between engineering teams.
Led cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, resulting in 30% faster feature delivery.
Mentored junior engineers in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL best practices with focus on system development patterns.
Medinformatix:
Architected REST API platform serving 200+ concurrent businesses focusing on maintainable design patterns.
Implemented AWS infrastructure using Route 53, RDS, ECR, S3, and Fargate achieving scalable deployment architecture.
Created comprehensive API documentation using OpenAPI spec improving design to development handoff efficiency by 50%.
Built robust testing infrastructure using Jest and Cypress achieving 90% test coverage.
Enhanced system reliability through Datadog observability reducing mean time to resolution by 60%.
2020 — 2022
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Architected and maintained a distributed IoT platform using AWS Chalice (Python/Flask), handling 100K+ daily device interactions with 99.9% uptime.
Led development of a design-driven component system using Nuxt.js, implementing A/B testing capabilities that increased conversion rates by 30% and reduced design-to-implementation time by 50%.
Built an internal platform dashboard using TypeScript, React, and Express, unifying IoT device data, analytics, and customer insights for cross-functional teams, resulting in 40% faster issue resolution.
Designed and implemented a scalable integration hub using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, connecting multiple third-party services (Shopify, Recharge, ShipStation) with 100% reliability.
Established a comprehensive documentation system combining technical API specs and user-friendly guides, reducing support tickets by 45% and improving cross-team collaboration.
Santa Barbara, California
Modernized legacy platform implementing micro-services architecture reducing API response times by 40%.
Led design system implementation increasing conversion rates by 25% and standardizing UI components.
Created comprehensive technical specifications reducing new engineer onboarding time from 2 weeks to 3 days.
Established modern DevOps pipeline enabling daily zero downtime deployments.
Designed scalable monitoring service processing 100K+ daily events using event driven architecture.
Maintained detailed API documentation facilitating seamless frontend and backend team collaboration.
San Luis Obispo, California
Architected real time communication platform supporting 10K+ concurrent users with sub 100ms latency.
Led checkout system redesign implementing component based architecture reducing cart abandonment by 40%.
Created design system standardizing UI components resulting in 25% increase in user engagement.
Modernized legacy Java services through API first design principles reducing response time by 50%.
Established automated testing pipelines achieving 99.9% uptime for core platform features.
Education
2017 — Present
Trident University International
Bachelor's degree
2017 — Present