Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
Full-stack/backend engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable systems serving millions of users, specialized in Python/Django. I love writing maintainable and thoroughly tested code. I design elegant solutions. I break down large projects. I delegate. I lead. I discuss approaches, tradeoffs. I give and ask for feedback. I make experiments. I optimize. I deliver. I think about the users. I have empathy for the team. Learning new languages or techs motivates me. I contributed to and led all sorts of cross-functional backend and full-stack initiatives at Instawork, leveraging skills in Python, Django, Django REST APIs, AWS, React, and Hyperview to build high-impact systems that drive measurable business outcomes, in a collaborative and fast-paced environment with a focus on ownership and data-driven decision making.
Tech stack: Django/Python, Django REST APIs, AWS, Kafka, React, Hyperview Cross-functional backend and full-stack initiatives conducted in a fast-paced environment: - Loyalty Program 2.0: Led static loyalty program migration to a modular and dynamic system that is closer to how well-established reward programs work. Increased user satisfaction and engagement. - Event-Driven Defect Detection: Contributed to an event-driven platform to detect worker defects and trigger penalties. This system was the major reason for bad gig outcomes dropping 4x over 3 years. - Tracking pipeline: Leveraged an in-house Kafka-powered system to build a W-2 overtime tracking pipeline that would use denormalized data for better SQL query performance. This reduced the business overtime-related expenses immediately upon launch. - Identity Verification: Enhanced identity verification flows through improved 3rd party integration and code refactoring to accommodate varying state regulations and partner-specific risk tolerances. Enabled partnerships with multi-million revenue businesses. - Security Enhancement: Integrated Cloudflare's Turnstile across web and mobile applications to prevent bot attacks and fraudulent account creation. Member of an on-call rotation to fix and prevent security-related vulnerabilities. - ML service integration: Drove full-stack efforts to collect comprehensive feedback from businesses and have the data flow seamlessly through a dispatch system to feed LLMs for final output. - Deployment Monitoring system: contributed to building a deployment tracking system plugged to CircleCI, AWS ECS/EC2, Datadog/Sentry, and Slack that monitors post-deploy issues and provides real-time insights to engineers about deployment health. - User onboarding flow: Led a substantial worker onboarding flow revamp to increase completion rate with smoother UX, and improve supply liquidity from the backend.
• Engaged in full-stack web and mobile development for applications used to match 3 million workers with thousands of businesses and their needs. • Collaborated in an agile environment (scrum), focusing on daily feature releases and bug fixes. • Contributed to a reusable incentive system tailored to various goals, increasing user engagement significantly. • Added UI real-time update with a server-sent events library to a system tracking workers attending their shifts, while improving 3rd party tracking service integration. System heavily leveraged by live ops team and Partners.
At Quibb, I was responsible for managing the entire engineering process, from conception to deployment, while also engaging in product discussions with the CEO: • Developed three web applications from scratch using Django and ReactJS, including a chatbot and a content-publishing platform. • Managed website operations on platforms like Heroku, Cloudflare, and Sentry, ensuring seamless performance. • Conducted NLP/ML experiments to enhance user input understanding, utilizing GCP for model training.
When I taught myself to code as a Full-stack Developer, I focused on building web applications that showcase my skills in Django, Flask, Rails, and ReactJS. I developed a photography portfolio app and an e-commerce web app demo, enhancing my understanding of web development and user experience. My projects emphasize mobile-friendly design, authentication, and data management, reflecting my commitment to quality coding practices.
As a key member of the team at BEAUBOURG AUDIOVISUEL, I played a crucial role in the post-production of "Profiling Paris," a widely acclaimed TV show. I supervised the entire post-production process, ensuring artistic consistency and compliance with regulations. My responsibilities also included managing music clearances and coordinating payments, which contributed to the smooth operation of our production team.