# Roxana del Toro

> Builder

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/roxanadeltoro

I like startups with unicorn dreams. My background is engineering and I’m interested in all things tech with a focus on tough markets. I've helped launch products for companies like Meta. I want to know, what is a feasible and fantastic future and how do we get there? You can talk to me about deep tech, XR, the payments industry, the future of work. product management, venture, science fiction, and bringing efficiency and innovation to old school industries. 

Beyond that, I'm a curious person who brings more than the basic to a team. I love to learn and live to hustle. My unusual path to Silicon Valley means I bring a new perspective, technical dexterity, and effective communication with little ego.

## Work Experience
### Engineer Investor Sabbatical @ Independant
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Building and learning (AI, NLP). Continuing to support portfolio companies in investor portfolio.

### Investor @ The Council
Jan 2023 – Present

### Venture Capital & PE Investor @ Cartography Cap
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Investor @ VU Venture Partners
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Frontier Tech

### Developer Strategy (Developer Relations), Metaverse Content Apps, Reality Labs @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Burlingame, California, United States
Vet, guide through greenlight, and work with the most innovative developers, creators and publishers in VR and AR to fund and help build for the Metaverse.

### Business Engineer (Partner Engineer), Fintech Partnerships @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Evaluate and collaborate with fintech companies to achieve dual product goals in payments. 
- Grow Facebook and WhatsApp reach by partnering with LATAM companies. 
- Balance partner’s ventures and Meta's product and engineering goals.
- 20% pre-sales, 80% post-sales interaction with companies integrating with Meta.

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Yammer, Telemetry Engineering team
- Build and maintain data infrastructure
- Create monitoring of system and microservice health

### Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Platform Infrastructure, SRE, Reliability team
Built things to make Uber as reliable as possible.
- Reliability gating tech lead (Python Tornado, React Javascript, internal tools creation, SOA design)
- Bender bot wrangler (Python Flask, Hipchat/Slack integrations, manual deployments)

Developer Experience team
- Developer gates

Marketplace Dispatch-Logistics team
Uber -> logistics

### Software Engineering Fellow @ Hackbright Academy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California
One of three recipients of a full scholarship for this 3-month immersive Python/Flask software engineering fellowship with a ~5% acceptance rate.
- Independent project was a Github commit visualizer in 3D for the Oculus Rift using C#

### Software Origineer @ Originate
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
Coder on web development projects varying from building new companies without any code yet, to creating products for existing companies, using:
- Ruby on Rails (RoR)
- Bootstrap / CSS / SASS
- HTML / HAML
- Javascript / Coffeescript
- Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Presto
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redwood City
Worked as an Android developer for the customer-facing proprietary software present in all partner restaurants.
- Integrated multiple open source libraries into the code base (e.g. Crouton, Robolectric, Otto).
- Independently implemented a game that was released on tablets for revenue generation.

### Fellow in Software Engineering @ CODE2040
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
CODE2040 is a super-selective tech program for high-achievers. The program fosters entrepreneurship and integrates fellows into Silicon Valley. It requires fellows to participate through:
- venture capital trainings
- leadership, finance, and media trainings
- tech community involvement and volunteerism
- the guidance of two industry mentors

See: http://www.code2040.org/

### AFL-CIO Program Associate @ Working America
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Direct fundraising, people management and scheduling, weekly trainings of employees.

### Operations Intern @ Urbanspoon
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Greater Seattle Area
Helped maintain accuracy of iOS startup's database. Contacted companies in database.

### Operations Intern @ Chez Panisse Foundation
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Berkeley, California
Fundraising database maintenance, administrative tasks, assisted program heads.

### Environmental Leadership Program Associate @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | College of Natural Resources
Economics conference that brings together dozens of economic leaders from all over the world each summer. Duties included conference planning and budgeting, alumni coordination, and moderating.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Environmental Economics & Policy
University of California, Berkeley

### Software Engineering
Hackbright Academy

### San Francisco State University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10