Work history

Experience

15+ years building across the stack — from civic tech early in my career to fintech and SaaS at scale.

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2023 – Present

Led the design and implementation of a new payments system, introducing idempotency to prevent duplicate transactions and improve reliability
Implemented an event-driven architecture with RabbitMQ to decouple services and simplify how payment events are processed
Tuned the event system to deliver real-time notifications to the frontend
Reduced GitHub Actions pipeline execution time by 50%, improving deployment speed and developer feedback cycles
Contributed to backend guild discussions to standardize patterns around messaging, error handling, and service communication

Mar 2023 – Oct 2023

Acted as Tech Lead, working closely with product and engineering managers to define priorities and guide implementation
Refactored a critical Python/Flask endpoint, reducing p95 latency by 30% through query and logic optimization
Coordinated with Data Science to retrain a risk model and integrate new inputs via a Python wrapper, improving accuracy by 20%
Performed detailed code reviews to ensure performance, readability, and long-term maintainability

Sep 2019 – Mar 2023

Led migration of a Node.js monolith to an event-driven microservice architecture using Express.js, Kafka, Redis, and GraphQL
Defined core metrics and monitors in Datadog and NewRelic to enhance platform stability and performance
Coordinated the full codebase migration from JavaScript to TypeScript
Implemented CI/CD tooling to enforce test coverage and TypeScript adoption in GitHub Actions
Expanded cloud regions from two to five, ensuring platform agnosticism across AWS and GCP
Designed a multi-tenant layer at the API level using Node.js Async Context and PostgreSQL row-level security
Helped grow the Conversation Intelligence Pod from a single team of 7 to three teams of 17 engineers
Led migration of the legacy AngularJS frontend to a modern micro-frontend architecture in React

Jan 2018 – Sep 2019

Worked closely with the team building the first Android app, reaching 30% adoption within two months
Built user-facing authentication flows in React, improving usability and onboarding experience
Delivered end-to-end features across backend services and frontend interfaces
Refactored backend services to ensure consistency of financial data in user-facing account statements

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021

Served on the technical advisory committee overseeing the software built to track the results of the 2021 Jalisco state election
Reviewed system architecture to ensure security, resilience, and compliance with federal requirements
Provided technical guidance to the development team throughout the election cycle

Jul 2017 – Jan 2018

Developed frontend applications as part of a scrum team building a microservices-based CRM
Worked across two AngularJS applications and one Angular 4 project, contributing features end to end
Ensured cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness across all surfaces of the system

Jun 2016 – Jul 2017

Led the upgrade of a legacy PHP system to a modern stack built with Angular and Symfony
Collaborated on the architecture and design of a school ERP system that was fully implemented in 2019

Nov 2008 – Jun 2016

Architected, designed, and implemented the candidate registration system for the state elections of 2009, 2012, and 2015, handling 11,000+ candidates per cycle
Defined the data structures and built a single-page application to publish real-time results for the 2012 and 2015 elections statewide
Developed a system to keep live tracking of council sessions across 20 districts and 125 municipalities of Jalisco
Designed and built a custom CMS with Symfony from the ground up, replacing Drupal as the institute's primary content publishing tool