• Architected and maintained mission-critical APIs, services, and databases, ensuring scalability and reliability.

• Collaborated cross-functionally with other teams to enhance system performance and optimize API design.

• Led the migration of a legacy system to microservices, improving deployment complexity and release velocity.

• Implemented a rich set of monitoring dashboards for increased observability of backend services.

• Led the design and development of backend services during the transition to a service-oriented architecture.

• Collaborated with architects and product teams to modernize legacy components and enhance observability.

• Spearheaded the evolution of services to event-driven architectures, improving scalability and maintainability.

• Mentored senior engineers and contributed to architectural governance initiatives at XO Group Inc.

• Served as one of the founding engineers during the modernization of XO Group Inc., a startup focused on consumer-facing wedding services.

• Designed and implemented key backend systems to manage member and wedding data effectively.

• Developed early RESTful APIs for internal use, establishing foundational patterns for future company-wide expansion.

• Introduced NoSQL databases to enhance data model flexibility and scalability.

Active member of the team in charge of the design and implementation of the new features for GPlus (www.gplus.com).

The Gplus website is a social network providing the infrastructure to allow the world’s most active and influential professionals, academics and entrepreneurs get connected. The website allows you to ask and get answers to important questions, start new conversations and participate in online meetings and webcasts among other features.

Technical presentation to the team on Indexing, Replication and Sharding with MongoDB

Responsible for the redesign and development of the Newsletters Distribution Service. This service is scheduled to run every night delivering the newsletters associated with the different websites of the company. After the testing of the new implementation was complete, the metrics showed that the service consumed less than half of the time to perform the same task.

Back end design and development of the Newsletters Subscription Management System.

Back end redesign of the CMS used by the company to manage its main website (www.everydayhealth.com). The new version persists the data to CouchDB resulting in a better performance during read/write operations.