Wilbur Suero

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
La Romana, DO.

About

Highly accomplished Senior Full-Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and building high-scale systems in Ruby on Rails and distributed environments. Expert in architecting robust backend infrastructures, optimizing performance at scale, and leading high-performing remote teams. Proven success in scaling AI platforms, developing robust APIs (REST & GraphQL), and integrating complex third-party services across high-traffic ecosystems. A product-minded, execution-focused leader deeply comfortable thriving in fast-paced startup environments. Eager to contribute to innovative open platforms and content marketplaces, focusing on technical excellence and safety. Seeking full-time remote opportunities within high-impact teams that prioritize velocity, scalability, and clean code.

Work

Puzzle
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Summary

Driving the development and scaling of a conversational AI platform, optimizing performance and leading backend initiatives.

Highlights

Successfully scaled a conversational AI platform to support over 50,000 daily users through strategic Rails and Redis optimizations and Sidekiq background job tuning.

Developed and implemented a real-time NLP pipeline for advanced campaign management, leveraging Elixir and LLM-based fact extraction.

Achieved a 60% reduction in message processing latency by re-architecting asynchronous pipelines.

Engineered robust integrations for email, SMS/MMS, and webhooks, supporting campaigns reaching over 1 million contacts.

Directed backend performance tuning initiatives, resulting in a 30%+ reduction in system response times.

Freelance
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Software Engineer

Summary

Delivered high-quality, production-grade applications for diverse clients, focusing on scalability, compliance, and performance.

Highlights

Delivered production-grade applications for diverse clients in real estate, government, and SaaS, consistently maintaining over 99.9% system uptime.

Constructed scalable data pipelines capable of securely ingesting over 100,000 documents monthly, ensuring multi-region compliance.

Developed and deployed a Kafka-driven GraphQL notification service, achieving sub-second latency for over 10,000 daily active users (DAUs).

Accelerated deployment speed by 75% through Docker containerization and CI/CD pipeline optimizations; provided critical on-call support across all environments.

PipelineDeals
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Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Contributed to the core CRM platform, focusing on performance optimization, internal tooling, and frontend development.

Highlights

Engineered a high-performance CRM platform supporting thousands of concurrent users and processing over 1 million daily API calls.

Optimized API performance, reducing latency by 50% through strategic Redis caching and SQL query refactoring.

Developed internal tooling for customer data migration, which reduced customer onboarding time by 80%.

Designed and implemented reusable UI components using Storybook, significantly accelerating frontend development and iteration cycles.

Bahía Principe
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Senior Software Developer

Summary

Led the architecture and implementation of critical enterprise systems, focusing on document management, payment processing, and team mentorship.

Highlights

Architected and implemented a robust Rails-based microservices platform for a paperless contract management system.

Successfully migrated over 50,000 legal documents to a new searchable database, decreasing document retrieval time from hours to seconds.

Developed and deployed a secure payments platform, processing over $10 million in transactions annually.

Mentored and led a development team in Test-Driven Development (TDD) best practices, increasing test coverage to 95% and reducing production incidents by 70%.

Education

Las Américas Institute of Technology (ITLA)

Specialization

Multimedia Specialist

Altos de Chavon School of Design

Specialization

Graphic Design

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Elixir, React, Next.js, Node.js.

Infrastructure & Ops

PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Docker, AWS, Heroku, Kafka.

Architecture

API Design (REST/GraphQL), Microservices, Background Processing, Real-Time Systems.

Testing & QA

RSpec, TDD, CI/CD, Performance Monitoring, Incident Reduction.

Collaboration & Leadership

Remote Teams, Cross-functional Communication, Agile/Scrum, Leadership.