Senior Software Engineer → Principal Software Engineer
Insendi (EdTech startup → scaleup)
- Led development across two teams and over 10 engineers, cutting development cycle time by 50% and improving average API response time by 35%, while keeping employee turnover close to zero.
- Helped transform a startup into a mature scaleup by introducing agile methodologies and a fully remote culture, and by evolving its main product through roadmap decisions, including the implementation of new AI-driven features such as quiz content generation.
- Scaled the platform to handle thousands of students concurrently through microservices, caching and asynchronous event-driven communication.
- Led the creation of a new product, making product decisions from a technical perspective and defining its roadmap in collaboration with management, product and design. Released the MVP in six months.
- Introduced development practices such as feature flags, trunk-based development and a monorepo architecture, and led major refactoring and migration initiatives.
- Improved CI/CD, halving deployment times and reducing errors, with zero unplanned downtime for three years.
- Acted as an engineering manager, mentoring several junior engineers who advanced to senior and team lead positions. Rated the company’s top leader in 360° surveys, scoring above 4.8/5 with 100% participation.
- Created an employee handbook that reduced onboarding time and was rated 4.9/5 by employees.