Lead Software Engineer

Experience

1. Apr 2025 – Present

   Querétaro, Mexico (Hybrid)

   Lead Software Engineer · Petco

   • Co-lead the KLO (Keep the Lights On) squad alongside a second lead, directing a team of five that owns site stability, defect resolution and continuous improvement across Petco.com (20–26M monthly visitors).
   • Own front-end architecture decisions for critical customer-facing surfaces, from technical design through production release and post-launch monitoring.
   • Improved Core Web Vitals across high-traffic templates by reducing render-blocking work, optimizing image and asset delivery, and tightening bundle size.
   • Re-architected error handling and data-fetching for cart and checkout, reducing customer-facing failures in the highest-revenue flow on the site.
   • Drive incident detection and triage with Datadog dashboards, alerting and tracing, shortening the path from alert to root cause.
   • Established the squad’s code review, testing and release standards and reinforced them through paired coding and teaching-oriented reviews.

   • React
   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • Node.js
   • GraphQL
   • Redux
   • Sass
   • AWS
   • Cloudflare
   • Datadog
   • Vitest
   • CI/CD

2. Apr 2023 – Apr 2025

   Querétaro, Mexico (Hybrid)

   Senior Software Engineer · Petco

   • Delivered and maintained features across the full Petco.com surface area — home, account, PDP, PLP, brand, cart, checkout and order confirmation.
   • Owned high-priority production incidents end to end, driving triage and resolution with clear stakeholder updates, including during peak retail traffic events.
   • Improved page performance by profiling bundle size, eliminating unused JavaScript and introducing lazy loading for non-critical components.
   • Analyzed ambiguous product requirements to scope, estimate and prioritize features, enabling more accurate sprint planning.
   • Mentored junior developers through hands-on coding examples and guided code reviews.

   • React
   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • Node.js
   • GraphQL
   • Redux
   • Sass
   • AWS
   • Cloudflare
   • Datadog
   • Vitest
   • CI/CD

3. Oct 2021 – Apr 2023

   Remote

   Software Engineer II · Wizeline

   Client: The News Movement — social-first Gen Z news publisher reaching tens of millions of viewers monthly

   • Built and launched the client’s flagship publishing website (thenewsmovement.com) from the ground up — a fast, SEO-friendly editorial experience for a global audience.
   • Implemented a unit and integration testing suite that established automated coverage where none existed.
   • Owned support and maintenance of both the headless CMS and cloud infrastructure, shortening the path from editorial draft to live story.
   • Served as primary technical liaison to the client’s CTO, editorial and design teams, leading daily status meetings for a distributed team.
   • Reduced page weight and improved Lighthouse scores through image optimization, font loading strategy and third-party script auditing.

   • Next.js
   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Node.js
   • GraphQL
   • Headless CMS
   • AWS
   • Cloudflare
   • Jest
   • CI/CD

4. Jul 2019 – Oct 2021

   Querétaro, Mexico

   Software Engineer I · GE Aviation

   • Designed and shipped a React application for monitoring physical assets via drone imagery and real-time alerts, reducing asset loss caused by theft and damage.
   • Built internal tools and data dashboards used by operations and engineering staff, replacing manual reporting workflows with self-serve visualizations.
   • Improved responsiveness of high-frequency data views by optimizing state management and eliminating unnecessary re-renders.
   • Collaborated with hardware, data and operations teams to define API contracts and data models for real-time telemetry ingestion.

   • React
   • JavaScript
   • Node.js
   • Python
   • Flask
   • D3.js
   • Highcharts
   • REST APIs
   • Azure
   • PostgreSQL
   • MySQL

5. Jul 2017 – Jul 2019

   Querétaro, Mexico

   Software Engineer Intern / Business Leadership Program · GE Aviation

   • Selected for GE’s Business Leadership Program, rotating across technical and business functions while completing a Computer Science degree, and converting to a full-time engineering offer.
   • Contributed production code and data visualizations to internal web applications used by engineering and operations teams.

   • JavaScript
   • Polymer
   • HTML
   • CSS
   • Python
   • Flask
   • D3.js
   • Highcharts
   • SQL

Skills

Education & Certifications

• Degree

  B.S., Computer Science and Engineering

  2019

  Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro — Querétaro, Mexico

• Certification

  Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

  2022

  Microsoft — Remote