About
High-performance engineer with 7 years of experience architecting cloud-native payment systems at hyper-scale. Currently scaling Uber's grocery payments platform (2M+ daily transactions), saving $10M+ annually through fraud prevention engineering. Expert in Go and Kubernetes, combining deep technical hands-on expertise with a proven ability to lead chapters, mentor engineers, and drive architectural standards across distributed teams.
Work
Santiago, Chile
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Full-time
Summary
As a Software Engineer on the Uber Eats Groceries & Retail team, I engineered and scaled core payment systems for delivery partners, processing over 2 million payments daily. I led the development of critical features for payment processing, courier experience, and fraud avoidance, directly contributing to preventing millions of dollars in losses worldwide.
Highlights
Designed and led multiple solutions to improve the accuracy and consistency of courier payment. Among them, I revamped our core estimation flow, achieving a 50% improvement in checkout total accuracy, resulting in an annual reduction of over 10 million dollars in the fraud window.
Achieved a significant increase in active supply through tactical and long-term wins in supply recuperation and onboarding. Designed and built a revamped onboarding flow that modernised the ageing experience and brought it in line with the company's objectives. As part of my efforts, an estimated extra 100.000 new couriers become active on the platform each month.
Led the team's flagship reliability improvement project, which successfully reduced the occurrence of catastrophic incidents from 15 per year down to 1.
Performed technical and behavioural interviews for prospective candidates for technical roles, onboarded team members and served as a mentor for both internal engineers and external developers as part of our outreach program.
Remote
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Contractor
Summary
Collaborated as an engineer for a Fortune 500 company in the healthcare industry. Developed systems for insurance processing that ensured strict regulatory compliance (HIPAA) and met strong reliability requirements. I worked at the core processing team for Medicare & Medicaid, where I built systems that processed patient claims with special in-house systems for traceability and auditing.
Highlights
Due to the nature of the industry, I was tasked with building high-visibility services where every change and decision needed to be explainable and auditable. In this vein, I developed 5+ microservices that powered critical business systems, including: Patient validation, insurance processing, auditing and internal tooling. I personally designed and oversaw the rollout strategy for 2 of them,
Company-wide Chapter Lead for Go. As part of this role, I was tasked with setting standards for the company's code and serving as an architectural consultant for other teams and areas of development.
Conducted technical interviews for Software Engineering and Go positions. Performed the onboarding of new engineers for integration into company projects.
Winner of the 2023 company hackathon, by building a tool that used AI to provide feedback on code smells and bugs.
Quimera Software
|Software Engineer
Santiago, Chile
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Summary
During my tenure at this software factory, I built solutions for multiple commercial and in-house projects. Independence and problem-solving were highly valued, as we worked in small self-sufficient task forces. This required me to get hands-on with all parts of development, from requirements to infrastructure.
Highlights
Developed custom software for a private cloud provider, managing instance creation and control through a custom Kubernetes control plane with hooks for intelligent resource allocation.
Created a solution for payment records and an inventory management system used by a local food chain. This software required complete vertical integration with other existing platforms to manage catalogues and incoming payments.
Skills
Orchestration
Kubernetes (Helm).
Programming
Go, C++, Python.
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB.
CI/CD
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness.
Message brokers
Apache Kafka (Confluent), AMQP (LavinMQ, RabbitMQ).
Certificates
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Issued By
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud Native Developer IT Professional Program
Issued By
The Linux Foundation
Remote Work Professional Certification (RWPC)
Issued By
CertiProf
Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate (SFPC)
Issued By
CertiProf
Education
The Open University
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BSc. (Honours)
Computing and IT (Software)
Universidad Autonoma
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PGDip.
Software Architecture
IPChile
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PGDip.
Entrepreneurship & Digital Management
Languages
Spanish
Native
English
Fluent
German
Conversational