Software Engineer Full-Stack
Resume:
David Vega
St. Louis, Missouri
& Remote
************@*****.***
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Hello!, I’m a highly-technical T-shaped engineering leader with 17 years of overlapped & specialized areas of experience, being a polyglot full-stack software engineer at my core with a passion for Software Architecture, my career led me to infiltrate DevSecOps, IT Ops, and Information Security out of deep care for Developer Experience (DevEx), engineering Quality and customer Happiness, so I have spent half my career practicing hands-on SRE, DevSecOps, and IT automation from a software-first perspective. The consistent feedback I’ve had the privilege of receiving is that I have a unique blend of technical and people skills, as I have leveraged my technical foundation and passion for business to liaise between engineering, organizations and clients, as well as leading from the front by working on the hardest, most complex and business-critical technical problems I can find, while mentoring and empowering individuals, as I also have a passion for Developer Relations. I’m a technologist at heart, and always jump-in with both feet to learn new languages, technologies, paradigms and solutions in record time —averaging ~5 2 weeks— and to a teaching level.
I don’t take the word leader lightly, while always being an individual technical contributor, I also happen to be an experienced people manager with a strong affinity for servant leadership. I have led teams of up to 15 individuals in a globally distributed setting, focusing on mentoring and helping individuals grow while shaping and guiding the technical direction of projects as an architect, earning the respect of my teams by doing technical work side-by-side with them when needed and prioritizing removing impediments from their path. I take great satisfaction in having built departments from scratch with 100% talent retention during my tenures, and having helped organizations and my leadership through cultural and organizational transformations and business growth. I approach real-world challenges with the urgency and mindset of a “fixer”, always striving to bring clarity and calm to complex situations —think Mr. Wolfe from Pulp Fiction, but for engineering. As a systemic thinker and strategist I find root-causes and create long-term sustainable solutions, while imbuing a shared excitement for technical and process innovation. Continually improving Developer Experience, Developer Relations & Developer Productivity is my default mode of operation, ensuring smooth and progressive enhancements without disrupting teams, with a focus on a culture of both team and customer happiness.
I firmly believe that any problem in the world can be solved through software, and that success comes from ensuring that whatever I do, I make sure everyone is having fun doing their best work. Skillset
● Software Engineering & Architecture
● IT Operations, Application Management,
Enterprise Solution Architecture, Digital
Transformation, Modernization,
Organizational Design
● Manufacturing: Continual Improvement,
Kaizen, TPS / Total Quality Management
● SQA: CMMI, SPICE/ASPICE, TDD
● Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (CloudRun,
CloudSQL, Pub/Sub, GKE), AWS (EC2,
ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda), Azure (AD,
DevOps); IT Automation: Terraform, Github
Actions, Jenkins, Ansible
● Networking: CCNA, Network Security
Architecture, Hybrid Cloud/On-Prem
Network Architecture; IT & Engineering
Procurement; Contract bidding &
negotiation.
● Full-Stack Development
● Embedded Software Development
● DevOps, Platform Engineering
● Agile Practices: Scrum, Kanban
● Project Management (PMP-trained)
● Budget & Resource Planning
● SDLC / DevOps / CICD toolchains:
GitHub Actions; Atlassian — JIRA
Server, Confluence Server, Bamboo
Server, Bitbucket Data Center; jFrog
Platform; Jama, Zephyr; SCM — Git,
Mercurial, Perforce; Gerrit, Jenkins,
Reviewboard; CodeSonar,
SonarQube, Playwright, DevEx,
DevRel, Docs as Code
● Blockchain: Solidity, IPFS,
Local-First software development
● Shell-scripting: POSIX sh, bash, zsh
● C/C++: Linux System Programming,
Embedded C, OpenGL API
● Java: Spring Boot, Hibernate, Grails,
Atlassian SDK. C#: .NET 8, EF, LINQ.
● PHP: Symfony 7, Doctrine, Joomla,
Drupal, CakePHP, Wordpress, Pest,
PHPUnit
● Javascript: Vanilla, React, Node.js
● CSS: CSS3, Tailwind
● Python: pytest, Django, flask
● DBA: normalization, optimization, EAV,
operations, DR, HA, sharding.
● SQL: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle.
● Linux: RHEL, Ubuntu, D-Bus, Docker
● Kubernetes: Helm, GKE, EKS
● Web Services and SOAs: REST,
Protocol Buffers, Rabbit MQ, PubSub.
● Software Architecture: UML, BPMN,
DDD, Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice
Architecture, Screaming Architecture
1 David Vega — +1-248-***-**** — ************@*****.*** — https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvegafuentes/
● AI: ML, audio recognition (transcription &
diarization), developer productivity,
ethics.
Professional Experience
Sr. Software Architect / Full-Stack Engineer at ATI (December 2024 - Present) - Hybrid, Saint Louis, MO
● Demonstrated modernization PoC for legacy PHP software, as well as a refactoring path using a technology stack composed of Symfony, Composer, PHP Unit 11 & Pest, React, Jest, React Testing Library, Typescript, Playwright.
● Proposed local infrastructure emulation using Kubernetes locally in order to shift-left E2E testing.
● Created a DevContainer to create a turnkey environment with all development & testing tools available.
● Created a small framework on top of Symfony (e.g. Page & API Controllers with i18n by default, and front-end delegated translations using the ICU standard) by creating a Composer library package for Shared Kernel code & file stubs, and a metapackage out of the main project to start installing the stack in new projects.
● Demonstrated Test-Driven Development (using GivenWhenThen in a common way across PHP, JavaScript & Typescript), Clean Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Vertical Slice Architecture, Screaming Architecture, Component Driven Development, following principles of Continuous Architecture and Lean Manufacturing using a Modular Monolith architecture before approaching microservices as a clear & high-quality path towards modernization, with an emphasis on Developer Experience and ability to use the Strangler Fig modernization pattern.
● Created docs as Digital Garden using Docs As Code, Lightweight ADRs, Mermaid/D2, Marp, Foam and Obsidian. Sr. Advisor / Technical Lead at Flexion Inc. (March 2022 - June 2024) - Remote - Saint Louis, MO
● Developed microservices with C# & Typescript through TDD, along functional tests using Jest + RTL.
● Implemented Github Actions (workflows, actions) and heavily contributed Terraform code and Helm charts.
● Technical lead & liaison, hands-on responsible for a migration from GCP CloudRun to Google Kubernetes Engine, and some experimentation with Apigee and other CNCF landscape solutions (e.g. external-secrets, flux).
● Interviewed and improved hiring process for Full-Stack SWEs, DevSecOps and Security engineers.
● Advocated for Developer Experience (DevEx) and Developer Relations (DevRel) while researching AI tools.
● Led the Engineering community of practice, weekly all-hands meetings and cloud cost optimization initiatives.
● Contributed to government bids as a software, DevOps and security engineer. Global DevOps Manager, Digital Engineering CoC at Harman International (Oct 2018 – December 2020) - Novi, MI
● Hands-on technical leadership for a global team of Solution Architects supporting over 5,000 software engineers, ensuring operational stability.
● Executed a successful 3-month special assignment in Germany, sanctioned by our CIO, to rebuild Engineering-IT relationships and improve our IT collaboration with Daimler, a major European automotive OEM.
● Scaling and training on SDLC toolchain deployments(Atlassian, jFrog, Grammatech, Jenkins).
● Migrated and integrated the SDLC toolchain for a division, consolidating six domains and 15 engineering teams, which eliminated silos, reduced legacy maintenance costs, and increased engineer productivity.
● Evangelized Docker while migrating Bitbucket Server operations to AWS ECS & RDS, enabling a cloud journey in 2 months, reducing outages by 90% compared to the previous year.
● Achieved approximately 80% savings on new cloud costs using Elastic Bamboo.
● Architected & implemented a hybrid cloud jFrog Platform deployment, reducing $200,000 in storage/year and ~4 hours/day/release.
● Developed a Bitbucket extension for self-service VCS conversions from Subversion and Perforce to Git. Regional Tower Lead, IT R&D Americas at Harman International (May 2015 - October 2018) - Novi, MI Led a 10 engineer team across Germany, China and India maintaining operations for SDLC toolchains across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Executed on a special assignment in Germany to rebuild IT-Engineering relationships. Led the evangelization of DevOps processes for OEM customers like Daimler, Chrysler, Ford and GM. Drove cross-divisional adoption of the Atlassian toolchain, jFrog Artifactory, and Git, while optimizing CI/CD processes with savings in the order of $300k/y in cost avoidance from licenses, hours of productivity and COPQ improvements. Led a divisional deployment and performance tuning of the IBM Jazz ELM toolchain. 2 David Vega — +1-248-***-**** — ************@*****.*** — https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvegafuentes/ Engineering Manager at Harman International (February 2014 – May 2015) - Queretaro, Mexico Created from scratch a 12 member multidisciplinary product development team for Harman’s Lifestyle division in the Automotive Audio SBU, extending the core design team in Novi, Michigan for Toyota and Ford. Hired, onboarding, budgeted for and managed a team of Software, Hardware and Mechanical engineers, identifying and mitigating risks as a Project Manager for customer programs. Managed and instituted SDLC/DevOps processes and tools, collaborating with upper management on strategy and quality processes. Lead Senior Software Engineer at Harman International (December 2011 – February 2014) - Queretaro, Mexico Created from scratch a 5 member software development team for Harman’s Infotainment division in Queretaro to extend the core team in Farmington Hills while resolving high-criticality manufacturing issues related to software. Developed software across multiple domains (HMI, Systems, Vehicle Interface, Tuner/XM) using technologies like QNX, d-bus, Java, ActionScript, Lua, shell-scripting, C/C++ while training my team to take over new tasks. Led cross-department initiatives with AME, Quality, and IT to enhance SDLC process with the Atlassian toolchain. Founder at Imbue (July 2009 – October 2016) - Queretaro, Mexico (Remote) Owner, founder and technical lead. In charge of directing operations and HR related processes for the startup company, and providing technical management as well as creative direction for internal and customer projects. Responsible for coordinating a cross-functional team (all remote) in the areas of software engineering, graphic design, copywriting & content-strategy, requirements and sales. CTO at Concierge Golf Mexico (August 2009 – November 2010) - Mexico City, Mexico (Remote) In charge of software architecture adapting to a rapidly growing business model. Responsible for the hands-on development of a web-based service-oriented internationalized eCommerce solution capable of compound conditional taxation, configurable services & rules and partial payments. Web Developer at SmartSys (January 2007 – August 2009) - Mexico City, Mexico (Remote) Part-time development of websites and custom web-based systems for small to medium sized businesses. Software Developer & IT Consultant as Self-Employed (October 2006 – August 2009) - Queretaro, Mexico PHP (vanilla, Joomla! Framework, Magento), Javascript (vanilla, MooTools) & MySQL. Freelance Web Developer at Linnet Educational Groupware (February 2007 – June 2009) - Queretaro, Mexico In charge of website development and administration using Joomla!. Functioned as an external systems analyst for the company's educational collaborative technology. External Consultant & Developer at Grupo Modelo S.A.B. de C.V. (June 2007 – August 2007) - Queretaro, Mexico Developed a web-based interactive quiz game for the opening & closing events of the 1st edition of the Beertual Challenge business simulator while coordinating requirements with a logistics company to rollout the solution within ~1 month in a nation-wide tour through universities. 3 David Vega — +1-248-***-**** — ************@*****.*** — https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvegafuentes/ Education
2005 -
2014
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de
Monterrey (ITESM) Campus Querétaro
B. Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering
Other education, grants and awards
● PC Hardware Maintenance Course (2002)
● CCNA: CCNA I to CCNA IV (2006 - 2010)
● PMP Certification Course (2015)
● 70% Scholarship at ITESM CQ (2005)
● ACM Collaborator Diploma (2006)
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