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Denver, Co, Us

- Directed the company-wide incident response for over 10 major incidents as Incident Commander, quickly and effectively mitigating and resolving the impact of incidents with millions of dollars at risk.- Devised and led the execution of a plan to significantly improve the observability of a group of teams, getting buy-in from stakeholders and organizing a cross-team effort, leading to a 95% reduction in alerts.- Spearheaded the creation of SLOs for our team group, allowing us to proactively monitor, action on and prioritize the reliability of our key product areas with a data-driven approach that was previously impossible.- Led the cross-team efforts to complete a 3 year long technical migration, improving page load times for large customers by ~50%, lowering KTLO costs by 50% and significantly increasing development speed.

Tech lead for a cross functional team working closely with Engineering, Product and Design.- Improved the performance of all bookkeeping integrations by 85% for large customers and generated a 50% performance improvement across the board, significantly improving the integrations used by over 140,000 customers.- Decreased integration customer cases from 2.2 cases / 1k connections to 1.2 cases / 1k connections, saving the company hundreds of thousands of dollars and increasing customer satisfaction.- Reduced the amount of Datadog error alerts the team received by 90%, massively improving observability and monitoring capabilities.- Contributed to a critical org-wide compliance project. Created an intricate technical solution across multiple domains. Organized test fests and a migration plan.- Owned the organization and running of team meetings. Lead roadmap plannings. DRI for all cross-functional coordination with 10+ different teams.- Revitalized out-of-date documentation, allowing engineers across the org to seamlessly onboard onto a complicated domain.- Mentored and onboarded engineers from both within and outside the team.- Advocated, planned for and executed on the systematic reduction of tech debt.

Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico

Co-managed cross-functional engineering, QA, and project management teams. Head of recruitment and mobile development.- Led the automation of multiple deployment stages on the company’s Azure and Oracle Cloud, reducing deployment times by 40% by implementing tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.- Built the mobile development team from scratch, recruiting and mentoring them on design patterns, introducing peer code reviews, and encouraging a culture of innovation and learning from failures.- Designed and executed a recruiting and team-building process that enabled the company to rapidly scale from six to 60+ top-performing employees in two years, increasing revenue tenfold.- Coordinated the team in charge of a web application that utilizes AI (Artificial Intelligence) to analyze faults in electrical power lines across the country, with more than 125,000 electrical structures analyzed.- Supervised the creation of efficient templates for the Django and FastAPI Python frameworks, resulting in a 25% reduction in development times.- Overhauled engineering workflows, leading to a 20% improvement in project delivery times.- Mentored developers on best practices by scheduling regular 1-1’s that provided employees with personalized guidance and career path roadmaps, increasing employee satisfaction by over 15%.- Guided the team for a lifestyle mobile application that leveraged ChatGPT to generate personalized recommendations, increasing monthly active users by over 30% since taking charge of the project and setting roadmaps for the future.- Architected over 15 scalable software solutions, closely coaching and supporting engineers across phases such as requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing, roll-out and support.

Mexico

Launched and managed the company's AWS servers. Worked with the co-founders to plan projects.- Built a mobile app that dynamically created complex multi-step forms on the fly by consuming an API, handling dynamic input types such as images, dates & bar codes, while allowing optional and linked fields.- Designed, developed and deployed a native mobile app with over 3,000 monthly active users.- Automated AWS (Amazon Web Services) deployment processes reducing deployment time by 30%.- Implemented multiple Flutter mobile applications using the BLoC pattern, decreasing time spent developing mobile applications by more than 33%.- Created and optimized backend services with Laravel and Python, reducing payload sizes by over 35%.

Fulfilled roles such as DevOps, mobile development, web development, management, and UX/UI.- Developed multiple native mobile apps for both Android and iOS using Kotlin, Java, and Swift.- Optimized an app’s database queries, lessening bandwidth usage by 50%.- Generated, deployed and maintained Python backend services with AWS, automating data entry jobs that decreased the project's monthly maintenance costs by more than 75%.- Created and launched a responsive website connected to a database that accumulated over 10,000 views.