José Pacheco

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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).

Education

Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009 – 2013