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.
Experience
2024 — Now
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).
2021 — 2024
2021 — 2024
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
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.
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
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.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
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
Trident University International
Bachelor's degree
2017 — Present