Summary(linkedin) (github)

Resourceful Senior Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in full-stack development and cloud architecture. Proven expertise in optimizing ETL pipelines and implementing Kubernetes solutions, leading teams to enhance operational efficiency. Successfully mentored junior developers and contributed to open-source projects, demonstrating strong leadership and collaboration skills. Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, dedicated to driving innovation and excellence in software engineering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Full Stack Senior Software Engineer, BrainGu

San Antonio, TX (Remote) September ’24 - July ’25

  • Full stack contributor to multiple services impacting customer facing products. (Django/React/Typescript)
  • Mentored both new and seasoned members of the team. (Pair programming)
  • Actively participated in Agile ceremonies. (GitLab/Jira)
  • Collaborated with team in program design and architecture discussions. (Lucid Chart)
  • Reduced cloud expenditure by improving local developer tooling, reducing feedback lag. (Tilt/Kustomize/BASH)
  • Lead implementation of real-time collaboration product features. (React/Python/Kubernetes)

Lead Software Engineer, American Tire Distributors

San Antonio, TX (Remote) October ’21 - September ’24

  • Re-architected inter-service behavior, unblocking it for increasingly larger workloads. (Event Driven/PubSub)
  • Led design and rollout of scalable centralized external data source ingestion service. (Kubernetes/PubSub/- FastAPI)
  • Led design and rollout of robust PCI compliance cleaning pipeline step. (GCP Cloud Functions/Kubernetes)
  • Led data provenance service design and rollout, fostering stakeholder trust (observability/tracing/PubSub/- BigQuery)
  • Architected API gateway, collaborated with disparate teams whose API’s would be exposed, established org-wide - adopted service for consistent customer facing interface, as well as served as a contributor. (FastAPI/- Kubernetes)
  • Rearchitected disparate existing caching libraries into single generalized solution. (Python 3/Poetry)
  • Designed and deployed RESTful APIs with input/output validation. (FastAPI/Pydantic)
  • Collaborated in highly provable systems. (Python 3/MyPy/PyRight/Pydantic)
  • Established load testing that enabled production release efficiency surpassing QOS goals for API Gateway. (K6)
  • Maintained deployment automation for corresponding Python based micro-services. (Helm/GitHub Actions)
  • Improved testing posture/simplification, resulting in an org-wide increase in deployment confidence. (PyTest)
  • Extended alerting for cloud to our chat services’ APIs. (Slack/Teams/GCP Composer/Airflow/Python)
  • Absorbed maintenance of additional legacy pipeline tasks, improving their resilience and efficiency. (GCP - Composer)
  • Developed POC for improved dashboard, reducing latency for data lake queries. (TanStack/IndexedDb/BigQuery)
  • Enhanced local development tooling, reducing review toil while increasing merge confidence. (Pre-commit)

Backend Engineer, The Perduco Group / LinQuest Corporation

Georgetown, TX (Remote) November ’20 - September ‘21

  • Obtained and maintained United States Secret Security Clearance.
  • Co-lead team ceremonies and stakeholder question and answer presentations. (Jira/Agile/Scrum/Retrospectives)
  • Created vendor agnostic solutions, enabling on prem and cloud portability. (Kubernetes)
  • Created reproducible/auditable cloud infrastructure. (Kubernetes/Terraform/AWS)
  • Key proponent and implementor for maintainable database schema. (Django ORM)
  • Established code quality automation efforts, reducing review friction and deployment lag. (hooks/lint/style/- coverage)
  • Established cost saving CI/CD pipeline, reducing toil of validation and deployment of artifacts. (GitLab - Pipelines)
  • Introduced scalable system design by initiating use of component driven user interfaces. (React/Typescript)
  • Evaluated and implemented an open-source solution for batch data ingestion automation. (Argo Workflows/ React)
  • Architected and co-contributor to RESTful API’s with accompanying user interface. (Django DRF/React)
  • Designed and deployed ETL data pipelines for survey ingestion. (Python 3/Qualtrics API)
  • Served as AWS subject matter expert(SME), guiding developers and other teams’ usage of cloud infrastructure. - (AWS S3/EC2/EKS/Packer AMI creation)

Senior Software Engineer, Foundries.io

Georgetown, TX (Remote) November ’19 - July ‘20

  • Open source contributor to automation to CLI tools. (Golang/Docker/TUF/Uptane)
  • Added continuous integration log streaming. (Flask/JavaScript)
  • Added API throttling. (Lua/Redis/Python)
  • Contributed to deployment configuration management. (Kubernetes manifest scripting)
  • Contributed to customer statistics dashboard. (Google Cloud Platform)
  • Contributor to frontend components. (Marko.js/Sass-lang/Express)
  • Automated development workflow. (Black/Prettier/Husky/Pre-Commit)

Senior Software Engineer, Blackberry/Cylance

Georgetown, TX September ’17 - November ‘19

  • Full-stack contributor to containerized RESTful interface. (Docker/Asyncio/Python 3/Tornado/React)
  • Key contributor and architect to task system. (RabbitMQ/AWS Lambda)
  • Created centralized NoSQL based caching system, greatly improving application performance. (Redis/Lua/Python)
  • Implemented centralized org-wide UI web components in collaboration with UX team. (Figma/React/Redux)
  • Contributor to reproducible container orchestration systems, easing collaboration. (Docker Compose)

Software Engineer, Codero

Kansas City, MO March ’14 - September ‘17

  • Full stack contributor for client facing web interface. (CloudStack/Flask/Angular/Python 2/RESTful)
  • Implemented RESTful API interface and helmed deployment of backing block Storage features. (CEPH cluster)
  • Established distributed task queuing system for background processing. (RabbitMQ/Python)
  • Administered corresponding DB for RESTful interfaces. (MySQL)
  • Main contributor to web based user interface. (Angular)
  • Collaborated on software integration providing tests corresponding to additional functionality.(Python Nose)
  • Automated development tooling with remote/local team. (git/Ansible/Vagrant/Docker)
  • Actively participated in weekly project planning meetings and monthly company conferences. (Agile/Scrum)
  • Communicated with team in person and online. (Jira/Gitlab/Slack/travelling)
  • Aided in screening and new hire process by reviewing resumes and interviewing of multiple candidates.

EDUCATION

  • University of Texas at Arlington — Bachelors of Science in Computer Science (ABET Accredited)

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Application Developer • December ’22
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect • July ’17

VOLUNTEERING

  • Technology Leader and Developer San Antonio Nerd Fest + Expo10/2024 - 2/2025 San Antonio, TX Established - minimal effort deployments through maximum automation and free tier services (GitHub Pages, GitHub Actions, - Astro.js, React, AWS Lambda, python, and Postgres).
  • Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 01/2002 - 01/2004 Guatemala, Guatemala Full - time proselyting spanish speaking missionary. Found prospective students, general emergency/needs service, - and collaborated with other official representatives.