# Sebastian Bastidas

> Staff Software Engineer

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

Software Engineering @ Shade

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Shade Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Hype
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
Backend for Base and Solana trading in a mobile app

### Staff Software Engineer @ Forethought
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Worked on building services and infrastructure that power all the company’s ML products. Automated Elasticsearch management, index resizing, and refreshing with zero-downtime migrations. Architected and led the execution of the service that proxies all machine learning models inference requests for all products handling more than 28M reqs/day. Led the initiative for exposing controls across all products to customers through self-serve mechanisms with authentication and authorization built-in
Designed and Implemented circuit-breakers to avoid service exhaustion when downstream microservices fail. Laid out foundations for reusable components for internal tools used in various internal applications across teams, including machine learning training and deployment.
Worked on the Solve team, an AI customer support chatbot. Led the development of the Customer support widget, serving millions of daily requests.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Atom Finance
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
Developed the backend to ingest, process, and output clean financial data to consumers. Developed multiple services to fetch and provide data that powers the site. Architected the financial document module: ~1 billion documents for all  ~8k US tickers.
Developed a catalog of features such as watchlists, tables, filings, and time series. Worked on a streaming microservice for real-time financial data (prices, changes, updates)

### Software Engineering Mentor @ Thinkful
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Developed coursework and exercises on development with JS, Node, Express, and React. Trained junior developers in full-stack web applications. Designed and directed 20+ projects. Wrote technical answers on Quora, reaching +60k students.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Systems Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22