# Zuzel V.

> Sr. Full Stack Engineer at Carta

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zuzel

Experienced Full Stack Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the FinTech and EdTech industries.

## Work Experience
### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Carta
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time employee at Carta Inc.

Main Responsibilities:
▪Build products and services powered by Carta’s ownership graph: the central registry of asset ownership across the globe.
▪Play a foundational role in Carta’s fast-growing Enterprise Engineering organization, which is responsible for features needed by late-stage private companies as well as public companies. 
▪Help to deliver reliable and scalable solutions that enable our largest and most valuable customers to grow on the Carta platform. 
▪Work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, business, and marketing. 

Technology: Python, Django, Java, Spring, React, Postgres.

https://carta.com

### Computer System Analyst @ PresenceLearning
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time employee at PresenceLearning.

Main Job Responsibilities:
▪ Take ownership of the billing system implementing several major features that allow the finance department to handle increasing monetary volume at a faster pace with zero leeway for error.
▪  Development, data migration, launch and maintenance of the new clinician platform.
▪ Improvement of the development process to include regular peer code reviews and
frequent releases.
▪ Adquire and share knowledge with the team about the architecture and data models of
Presencelearning’s core products.
▪ Onboard and mentor new software engineers joining the backend team.

Technology: Python, Django, MySQL, Celery, REST, GraphQL, Angular.

https://www.presencelearning.com

### Web & Mobile Developer @ Wave
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Canada Area
Full-time employee at Wave HQ.

Main Job Responsibilities:
▪ Plan and develop new features, from prototype and beta release to public launch.
▪ Redesign and refactor large parts of Wave's platform for improved scalability and
performance.
▪ Bug fix, peer code review, and maintain high standards of code quality and test
coverage.
▪ Share knowledge about the architecture and data models of Wave's core financial
management products.
▪ Development and maintenance of Wave mobile apps and API.

Technology: Python, Django, Nose, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Celery, Backbone, CoffeScript, Jquery, Jasmine, iOS, Objective-C, Android, Java.

https://www.waveapps.com

### P2PU Tech Lead @ Peer2Peer University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Toronto, Canada Area
Contracted full-time as consultant by Peer2Peer University Inc.

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Decision making on technical issues related to P2PU's online university.
• Lead development of the associated open source project (Lernanta).
• Sysadmin responsibilities, such as DNS administration, servers configuration and
release management.
• Coordinate volunteer open source developers, review contributions, bug reports and patches.

Technology: Python, Django, JQuery, MySQL, node.js & PHP.

https://www.p2pu.org

### P2PU Tech Lead @ Mozilla
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Toronto, Canada Area
Temp full-time employee at Mozilla Foundation.

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Decision making on technical issues related to P2PU's online university.
• Lead development of the associated open source project (Lernanta).
• Sysadmin responsibilities, such as DNS administration, servers configuration and
release management.
• Coordinate volunteer open source developers, review contributions, bug reports and patches.

Technology: Python, Django, JQuery, MySQL, node.js & PHP.

https://www.p2pu.org

### P2PU Tech Lead @ Shuttleworth Foundation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Toronto, Canada Area
Contracted full-time as consultant by the Shuttleworth Foundation.

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Decision making on technical issues related to P2PU's online university.
• Lead development of the associated open source project (Lernanta).
• Sysadmin responsibilities, such as DNS administration, servers configuration and
release management.
• Coordinate volunteer open source developers, review contributions, bug reports and patches.

Technology: Python, Django, JQuery, MySQL, node.js & PHP.

https://www.p2pu.org

### P2PU Assessment Prototype and OSQA developer @ Shuttleworth Foundation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Contracted part-time as consultant by the Shuttleworth Foundation.

Main Job Responsibility: Customize OSQA for the assessment/badge pilot environment.

Technology: Python, Django, JQuery & MySQL

https://badges.p2pu.org


## Education
### M.Sc. in Computer Science
University of Toronto

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Havana


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zuzelvera
- Website: https://github.com/zuzelvp

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Last updated: 2026-04-01