About
Product-minded Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting scalable backend microservices and high-availability data pipelines for Fintech and Insurtech platforms.
Expert in Python and Django (Django-Ninja/DRF/FastAPI), with proven experience designing secure RESTful APIs, managing complex third-party financial and data integrations, and optimizing PostgreSQL database performance.
Experienced in building cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and owning production reliability, CI/CD, and system monitoring for platforms.
Native Spanish speaker with fluent professional English.
What I'm looking for
looking an role as back-end engineer or data engineer
Experience
Senior Backend Engineer (Contractor)
May 2025 – Jan 2026
Spearheaded the backend modernization of legacy Django 1.11 applications to Django 5.2, updating dependencies and establishing comprehensive regression testing to eliminate technical debt and ensure uptime.
Architected automated CI/CD deployment pipelines on AWS EKS with multi-replica deployments, replacing manual SSH release processes and drastically reducing rollout risk like downtime, data migration failures, environments mismatch.
Integrated third-party payment gateways (Zoho Payments) and WorkOS AuthKit into modern Python backend services, maintaining secure transaction workflows and API endpoints.
DjangoAWS EKSCI/CD
INERTIA LABS
Senior Backend Engineer
Jan 2022 – Dec 2024
Architected core backend infrastructure for a high-concurrency SaaS product, designing scalable RESTful APIs using Django-Ninja and Python.
Designed and maintained robust, production-grade integrations with 7 third-party financial and data providers (e.g., TransUnion, LexisNexis, Reynolds & Reynolds), managing asynchronous data pipelines with Celery and RabbitMQ.
Developed a VIN-decoding microservice leveraging external NHTSA data to automate workflow inputs, reducing manual entry errors across production workflows.
Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS EC2 using Docker Swarm, Ansible, and Terraform; set up Grafana/Prometheus monitoring dashboards for proactive issue detection and system reliability.
Django-NinjaCeleryAWS EC2
AUTOCOMPLETE
Backend Engineer / Full-Stack Developer
Dec 2015 – Dec 2021
Maintained and evolved the core SquaretradeGo backend platform using Python/Flask, servicing high-volume device repair workflows, automated dispatching, and transaction processing.
Integrated key third-party transactional and financial services (Stripe, Stripe Connect, Mailgun, Twilio), driving seamless payment processing and automated notifications.
Migrated platform deployment architecture from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to dedicated internal infrastructure via Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Puppet provisioning, cutting deployment time from 10 to 2 minutes.
PythonFlaskJenkins
Squaretrade
Education
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING
Bachelor of Science · Systems Engineering
Skills
TerraformDockerAWSCeleryGithub ActionsSqlAlchemyFlaskApache KafkaApache AirflowFastAPIDjangoPostgreSQLPython
Languages
Spanish (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Full professional proficiency)
