Summary
I'm a proven leader with over 12 years of experience in software engineering, including over 5 years in management, 4 of those at the Director/VP level. I am passionate about building inclusive, high-performing teams and have a strong track record of delivering quality web applications that drive business growth. My expertise spans backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, security, and artificial intelligence. I'm also an active contributor to open-source projects. I'm fluent in Spanish.
Experience
Vice President, Engineering
Seek AI 2023 Aug – 2024 Sep- Led a team of 8 engineers (grown from 4) building a state-of-the-art gen AI platform.
- Worked with CPO and VP of AI Research to define roadmap and schedule work into sprints.
- Oversaw and implemented projects such as Slack integration, a Snowflake Native Apps deployment, and major UI/UX improvements, including coding, architecting, and code review.
- Introduced and refined software processes such as Lunch & Learns, On-Calls, SAST.
Senior Director, Engineering
Numerator 2019 Nov – 2022 Mar- Directed 3 web application teams and a centralized Data Warehouse team (~30 engineers).
- Maintained 74 NPS, 70 SUS, 99.9% uptime on an analytics platform with billions of rows of data, for a flagship product line driving $100M+ revenue.
- Consistently prioritized and contributed to major technology shifts, including the containerization (docker) and orchestration (k8s) of the Insights Platform.
- Hired, coached, and promoted managers and Senior ICs, with an eye for inclusivity and employee engagement (87.5% employee engagement, 5% quarterly attrition).
Manager, Engineering
Numerator 2019 Jun – 2019 Nov- Hired and mentored engineers across different experience levels for 2 teams (10 engineers).
- 30-70 split between IC and Management duties, with code-owner status on key codebases.
- Major projects: an advanced conditional query flow and a 50% test-coverage improvement.
Senior Software Engineer
Numerator 2018 Nov – 2019 Jun- Maintained and improved a data abstraction layer in Django, SQLAlchemy and Pandas.
- Led or single-handedly delivered on key roadmap initiatives, such as a 'Survey-on-Demand' module.
- Contributed to or forked key open-source dependencies (vertica-python, sqlalchemy, celery).
- Lead Engineer for two teams (5 people total) from Nov 2018 onward.
Software Engineer
Numerator 2017 Feb – 2018 Nov- Maintained and improved a data abstraction layer in Django, SQLAlchemy and Pandas.
- Led or single-handedly delivered on key roadmap initiatives, such as a 'Survey-on-Demand' module.
- Contributed to or forked key open-source dependencies (vertica-python, sqlalchemy, celery).