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About Me #

Passionate, experienced, and proven Engineering Lead with more than 13 years of experience building scalable, ITGC & SOX compliant, and efficient teams and processes, RESTful and SOA integrations, automating business and development processes, implementing Q2C company-wide pipelines, and training technical and non-technical teams in efficient SDLC processes, incident responses, and PRE/POST IPO preparation. Leverage new and existing tools and processes to identify gaps and inefficiencies in the development, CI / CD, and Q2C pipelines. Translate technical documents into Business Requirement Documents and Project plans for both technical and non-technical audiences. Proven cross-functional team lead in local and hybrid teams committed to delivering impactful, company-goal-driven experiences for all employees, departments, and industries (HR, Finance, Logistics, SaaS, amongst others).

Skills #

Skill Level Category
Process Documentation and Automation Advanced 1 Architecture
Quote to Cash pipelines Advanced Architecture
ITGC / IT Risk Management Advanced Security
SOX Compliance Advanced Compliance
Low-code / No-code integration orchestration (Workato) Advanced Development
Typescript and NodeJS Advanced Development
Hacklang Advanced Development
Technical Management / Leadership Advanced Management
Technical / Non-technical Communication Advanced Management
Functions as a Service (OpenFAAS, AWS Lambda) Comfortable 2 Infrastructure
Containerization (K8S / Docker) and Virtualization (Proxmox) Comfortable Infrastructure
Python Comfortable Development
Git Comfortable Development
MySQL / NoSQL Comfortable Development
Infrastructure as a Service (Terraform, Ansible) Entry 3 Infrastructure
Mulesoft Development (Mule 4) Entry Development
Networking (SMB) Entry Development

Professional Experience #

  1. Principal Business Application Architect / ITGC Controller - Samsara

    Oct 2021 - June 2023

    San Francisco, CA

    • Designed and implemented new SDLC processes for business technologies.
    • Designed and implemented new audit-ready JIRA workflows.
    • Designed, implemented, trained, and supported all aspects of the ITGC process (pre and post IPO).
    • Implemented automation around ITGC and SOX proof collection for external auditors.
    • Worked with internal teams (Order Ops, Sales Ops, Finance Transformation) to identify, document, and propose solutions with a focus on Developer and Customer Experience and Scalability.
    • Implemented a new organization-wide BRD process focused on maximizing business participation while minimizing development times and post-delivery support cost.
    • Implemented and trained business technologies teams on Incident responses.
    • Evaluated and managed vendors and relationships.

  2. Staff Engineer / Quote to Cash Lead / ITGC & SOX Compliance Engineer

    Mar 2018 - Oct 2021

    San Francisco, CA

    • Designed, implemented, trained, and supported all aspects of the ITGC process pre and post IPO.
    • Designed and developed a migration from Netsuite to Workday Financials for all of Slack’s billing.
    • Collaborated with internal auditing teams to collect proof of ITGC and SOX compliance for external auditors.
    • Led a team of six Sr. and Staff Engineers, QAs, and solution architects.
    • Improved Quote to Cash Order process automation from 65% to >90%.
    • Improved performance in processing times between Salesforce and Workday Financials by 40%.
    • Re-vamped the internal incident lifecycle management through new Slack automations.
    • Reverse-engineered Workato’s SaaS Ruby parsers to enable local testing, decreasing regression issues by 95%.
    • Designed and implemented new automations to generate Workato deployments, unit testing, and code migrations.
    • Designed and implemented new BRD processes to improve deliverables for Quote to Cash.
    • Migrated Slack’s Quote to Cash legacy PHP codebase to HackLang.
    • Migrated monolithic Ruby tools to Python and NodeJS microservices hosted in AWS.
    • Mentored and led new and existing members of the Business Technologies team (formerly known as IT).
    • Led cross-functional efforts to scale billing practices for Invoice and Self Service customers.
    • Automated and scaled CI/CD pipelines using Behavioral Driven Development and Test Driven Development practices.
    • Designed and implemented new Hiring, testing and on-boarding practices for the Integrations team.
    • Designed and developed Slack applications and bots for third-party Enterprise systems.
    • Designed and developed Slack APIs to enhance Quote to Cash functionality with Workday Financials.
    • Collaborated with peers to write, review, and provide feedback on company-wide technical designs.

  3. HRsmart / Deltek, Principal Software Architect - APIs

    2015 - 2018

    Richardson, TX

    • Managed an international team of developers and Quality Engineers with long-term growth potential.
    • Updated the company’s candidates tests to reflect the integration’s department technical needs while interviewing and hiring developers.
    • Performed cross-department training sessions to keep employees up-to-date with new tools and functionality in the integration platform.
    • Trained vendor and client technical employees in the HRsmart API, best practices, and troubleshooting.
    • Designed, developed, and implemented customer requirements into functional projects (ADFS 3.0 and LDAP integrations, multilingual API localization, testing frameworks, cryptography, self-evolving API documentation systems).
    • Built internal tools and systems to assist in all aspects of the life cycle of an integration, centralized multiple site deployments in one seamless process, and reduced human involvement.
    • Upgraded and extended XML RPC API, JSON API, and SOA architecture to enhance scalability, stability, and performance.
    • Reviewed business requirements and implemented new Vendor integrations (Deltek, EmpowerHR).

  4. HRsmart, Project Manager / Lead Developer / Mentor

    2009 - 2015

    Buenos Aires, Argentina ~ Richardson, TX

    • Lead developer for Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
    • Project scoping, design, and delivery from client’s scope and ideas
    • Responsible for Database Server set up for new products, including database schema design and optimization.
    • Provided feedback to customers regarding new code implementations.
    • Perform peer review code of other team’s members to accomplish the best grade of optimization for each task.
    • Designed and delivered a complete Social Network from scratch.
    • Designed and delivered multiple Facebook Graph Integrations.

Education #

  1. Electrical Engineering (BSE) - ASU

    2021 - 2025

    Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Junior year)

    Expected graduation date 05/2025

Languages #

Language Level
English Native
Spanish Native
Japanese Basic

Download #

  1. Advanced - Able to offer gap analysis, best practices (SME) ↩︎

  2. Comfortable - Requires almost no help navigating / using / contributing in these technologies ↩︎

  3. Entry - Learning my way around the tools, understands usage, technologies, concepts but not efficiently yet. ↩︎