/work experience/

Senior Software Egnineer

Mar 2026 — Current

Nearform ↗ , Remote

  • Architected and deployed an autonomous multi-agent AI pipeline (CrewAI) that translates unstructured policy documents into complex, executable SQL, eliminating manual query translation for data analysts.
  • Pioneered a fault-tolerant "decide-with-assumptions" execution model for AI agents, allowing the system to proceed using documented defaults while surfacing heuristics for human-in-the-loop validation, preventing pipeline stalls.
  • Delivered end-to-end full-stack capabilities, shipping an interactive analyst UI with real-time schema verification while optimizing backend database interactions to eliminate validation bottlenecks and silent failures.
  • Spearheaded a large-scale DevOps and infrastructure modernization across 42 repositories, clearing a 300+ PR backlog by resolving root-cause CI pipeline failures dating back years.
  • Re-engineered organizational testing foundations, establishing unified local and CI runs (Makefiles), migrating to modern build configs, and verifying builds against real containerized infrastructure (Postgres, Firestore).

Lead AI Engineer

May 2025 — Mar 2026

Korn Ferry (Client: Vista Equity Partners) ↗ , Remote

  • Architected, implemented, and containerized an LLM-Enhanced, High-Performance RESTful API to serve synthesized financial health metrics for equity investment. The service is seamlessly integrated with the Salesforce API and utilizes Python and FastAPI for core logic, Postgres for persistent data management, and DBOS for stateful operations, achieving a scalable, fault-tolerant deployment on Azure Container Apps.
  • Drove the end-to-end modernization of a mission-critical financial analysis service built on Python Azure Functions. The initiative featured the critical integration of Snowflake for data sourcing and the establishment of an automated, enterprise-grade CI/CD pipeline (Azure and GitLab) to ensure continuous delivery and operational stability.

Sr Software Engineer

Jan 2025 — Jul 2025

Divorce.com ↗ , Remote

  • Designed and implemented session analytics ETL using Django, Django-ORM, PostHog, MySQL, Docker
  • Implemented the backend and frontend chat for premium users
  • Redesign and implmented the distribution of the PDF files that supports the forms and filing teams

Lead Software Engineer

Feb 2024 — Jul 2024

Parlance Corp ↗ , Remote

  • Developed REST APIs utilizing C#, .NET, and Python; leveraging Docker, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, and Azure Pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
  • Designed and implemented a serverless architecture using Knative for event-driven and scalable serverless functions.
  • Redesign and implemented the Service Line Monitor ETL (Client phone systems), and Customer Phone Directory ETL monitor. Automated unit tests for all monitoring ETLs using pytest and existing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Set up PyPI using Azure Artifacts.
  • Implemented the ORM needed for the migration from Python 2 to Python 3.

Staff Engineer

Nov 2023 — May 2025

Ediciones LAVP ↗ , Remote

  • Architected and developed a full-stack e-commerce platform, leveraging Next.js for a high-performance, responsive frontend and a serverless Python (Starlette) REST API backed by PostgreSQL.
  • Established a production-grade GitOps workflow, provisioning a containerized Kubernetes deployment pipeline using ArgoCD, Docker, and GitHub Actions for automated, reliable releases.
  • Engineered secure integrations for core revenue pipelines, implementing custom Stripe payment flows for the online storefront and integrating automated email marketing pipelines.
  • Drove platform growth and discoverability by defining and executing a comprehensive technical SEO strategy, utilizing server-side rendering (SSR) and modern web optimization best practices.
  • Engineered autonomous, agentic workflows to scale business operations, fully automating technical SEO enhancements, real-time content validation, dynamic inventory management, and intelligent response generation.

Lead Software Engineer

Sep 2017 — Nov 2023

Chewy.com ↗ , Plantation, FL

  • Assist and tutor data scientists and developers on computer science, best practices and problem solving.
  • Developed and maintain a REST API to attribute mobile web sessions to tv ads, and support the analysis and decision making for TV campaigns. Implemented the API’s consumption with multiple Apache Airflow DAGs.
  • Designed and implemented an Apache Airflow distributed cluster. Tools: Ansible, PyPi, AWS (EC2, RDS, RabbitMQ, Celery).
  • Designed and implemented the architecture for the automated execution of multiple machine learning models (Lifetime Value, Propensity-to-Buy, Customer-Value-Segmentation, Churn)
  • Developed and maintain customer churn model (Churn App) as a python PyPi package
  • Designed the architecture for a Chewy’s Product feed as a service
  • Developed and maintain a REST API that manages Google Feed integration with Chewy’s products (Airflow, Python, EC2)

Software Engineer

Jun 2016 — Jul 2017

Nova Consulting ↗ , New York, NY

  • Designed a schema for a database (PostgreSQL) to store unstructured dynamically collected from excel and word documents.
  • Created a 2-tier (front/back end) application python, flask and PostgreSQL data dynamically extracted from excel spreadsheets, word documents, pdf documentes and emails.
  • Created a report engine capable of performing descriptive statistical analysis using pandas.
  • Created an python-based application that synchronize data between a remote company server and Cosential CRM.

Python Engineer

Oct 2014 — Feb 2015

Advance Digital ↗ , Jersey City, NJ

  • Conducted load testing and python code optimizations to improve application performance and throughput.
  • Authored and maintained concise technical documentation.
  • Wrote and maintained functional and unit tests for automated testing and continues deployment.
  • Participated in the development and maintenance of an API to federate data from core platforms built withdifferent technologies using Python, AWS, PostgreSQL.

Software Developer

Apr 2014 — Aug 2017

TruVeris ↗ , New York, NY

  • Developed and implemented additional reports to TruReport using Python, SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL.
  • Participated in the development and maintenance of RxChoice, TruBid and TruReport to improve usabilityand satisfy user feature requests. Tools: Python, HTML, CSS and JavaScript for frontend development.

Software Developer

Apr 2013 — Mar 2014

Acclivity NYC LLC ↗ , New York, NY

  • Participate in the development, design (architecture) and maintenance of the printing and templates system ofCheckout App using Python for backend development and HTML, CSS, Objective-C and Cocoa forfrontend development.
  • Develop and maintain the internationalization and localization system for the application’s currency andtemplate engine using Python, HTML CSS and Cocoa.
  • Develop, maintain and automate Unit and Integration Tests for PostgreSQL Database migrations usingAlembic and SQLAlchemy.
  • Participated in the development, architectural design and maintenance of the RESTful API that serves theMobile POS application for CheckoutApp using Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy and Alembic.
  • Maintain Enstore(e-commerce platform) using Django on Google App Engine.

Webmaster and IT Support Advisor

Jul 2011 — Jul 2012

Law Offices of Ron Katiraei ↗ , New York, NY

  • Designed, developed and deployed e-mail marketing campaigns (HTML, CSS)
  • Developed and maintained a python based virtual backup service Amazon S3.
  • Maintained and managed Access and MySQL Databases
  • Supervised website redevelopment (Joomla, MySQL)
  • Installed and maintained FTP Servers, Samba Server and the companies VPN

Python Developer and Webmaster

Jun 2010 — Apr 2017

Ediciones LAVP ↗ , Remote

  • Developed Python based API (RESTful Web Service) to track sales and perform sales analysis using Flask,SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL.
  • Developed and designed an API (RESTful Web Service) for the company’s website.
  • Developed and designed e-mail marketing campaigns using HTML and CSS.
  • Maintained customers relationship management databases (MySQL / PostgreSQL)
  • Developed server based web traffic statistical analysis tool using Flask, Pandas.
  • Managed the company’s virtual servers at Amazon EC2, S3

Quality Assurance Assistant

Oct 2008 — Nov 2009

Urban Living ↗ , New York, NY

  • Tested companies property management software.
  • Designed test plans for companies marketing web-based system.
  • Scheduled and maintained property availabilities in Lodgis Database.
  • Created and digitally distributed highly targeted marketing materials (HTML & CSS).

Prospective and Statistics Analyst

Feb 2006 — Feb 2009

Universidad del Rosario ↗ , Bogota, Colombia

  • Created and analyzed prospective reports using Lipsor software.
  • Developed automated statistical data reports through the implementation of market behavior algorithmscompanies in the health industry in Colombia.
  • Assisted lead economic analyst with Advanced Excel macros technical implementation for consumer behavioranalysis.

/entrepreneurial ventures/

Co-founder

Mar 2026 — Current

Turtle Rock Intelligence, Weston, FL

  • Co-founded a data science and engineering firm delivering production-grade solutions in law and finance
  • Engineered high-availability database infrastructure, deploying production-grade PostgreSQL relational clusters for transactional state management alongside optimized MongoDB WiredTiger time-series clusters for high-frequency market data storage.
  • Designed and provisioned the foundational cloud-native architecture, compute hosting, database infrastructure, and unified data layer using Kubernetes, container orchestration, Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and Ansible configuration management, establishing enterprise-grade reliability, continuous scalability, and disaster recovery.
  • Enforced multi-environment configuration control (Development, Staging, Production) with Ansible Vault encryption, strict network isolation rules, and secure secrets management across cloud VPS environments and cluster nodes.
  • Architected and deployed transactional, durable workflow orchestration leveraging DBOS (Database-Oriented Operating System) on PostgreSQL, replacing legacy heavy schedulers with lightweight, fault-tolerant execution guarantees.
  • Streamlined background data ingestion pipelines, automated maintenance tasks, and quantitative workflow steps with guaranteed exactly-once execution semantics and low-latency state persistence.
  • Built an institutional market data ingestion platform (trdata CLI) in Python, establishing robust HTTP REST and WebSocket streaming connections to Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Client Portal API Gateway.
  • Developed automated, stateful incremental pagination algorithms for multi-asset OHLCV market data (equities and complex multi-contract futures chains), integrated with automated bid/ask pair integrity validation and anomaly detection.
  • Designed production relational and time-series schemas with Alembic migration management, enforcing rigorous software engineering standards via PyTest test suites, automated coverage tracking, and blocking CI/CD deployment gates.
  • Standardized deployment workflows with Docker and Nginx, establishing automated build and release pipelines to AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) governed by strict Semantic Versioning and project software constitutions.

Co-founder, Head of Engineering

Oct 2011 — Oct 2012

MasQue11.com, New York, NY

  • Developed company’s website RESTful API using Python, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis
  • Developed and design html newsletters and templates using HTML, CSS, and MailChimp's API
  • Assisted in the in the design and development of the front-end JavaScript Application (Angular.js)

/education/

Master of Computer Science

2015-01-19 — 2025-05-31

City College of New York ↗

Machine Learning

Bachelor in CIS - Magna Cum Laude

2009-11-02 — 2012-10-31

DeVry College of New York ↗

Web Development and Administration

Bachelor

2004-01-05 — 2009-10-20

Universidad de Rosario ↗

International Business Administration