love building stuff. developer, weeb, gamer, artist
I'm Carlos Torija, a software developer from México.
Started my career as a NetSuite consultant in 2012, and later on focused on financial services, working with companies like Konfio and Fondeadora
Lately I've been working with US based companies such as Lyft and more recently, Zillow.
resume
Software developer that has worked developing software for startups and enterprise businesses for the past 12 years.
Implemented APIs, observability tools and infrastructure with AWS services that support the operation of growing startups, while mentoring teams through organizational changes implementing processes that fostered quality and collaboration.
Looking for a challenging self-directed role that lets me tackle highly technical problems.
Senior Software Engineer | Zillow
(2025-06 ~ Today)
- Figuring things out
Senior Software Engineer | Lyft
(2023-04 ~ 2025-03)
- Led development on internal tools that automated components of our customer's billing process, reducing delivery time more than 70%.
- Designed the tools and processes that improve our ability to prevent and react to fraud within our platform, increasing our acquisition capacity by 50%.
Sr. Solutions Architect | Konfío
(2021-05 ~ 2023-01)
- Defined a framework to enable a more reliable delivery ecosystem from development to production, reducing time-to-production from 1 day, to 1.5 hours.
- Designed the architecture that would integrate the technology and data of our services and products with the newly acquired companies, creating a unified experience.
VP of Engineering | Fondeadora
(2020-06 ~ 2021-04)
- Created the data engineering team and data strategy that handles the organization's analytics and governance, moving from 1 day delay to real-time monitoring of the operation.
- Expanded, structured and mentored the engineering organization to enable their growth, the reliable delivery of products to our customers and the analytics required to manage the operation of the company.
Lead Architect | Konfío
(2019-01 ~ 2020-05)
- Designed the core API service that provides the backbone for our applications, both web and mobile, customer facing and internal, with 80% of internal adoption for all our services in 6 months.
- Designed and implemented the tools and services that simplify the on-boarding process of new engineers, moving time-to-productive from 3 weeks to a few days, providing a smoother learning curve for our tech ecosystem and enabling faster, and more reliable, delivery of features.
Tech Lead of Internal Tools | Konfío
(2017-10 ~ 2018-12)
- Structured the engineering organization to maintain quality across growing teams in all our internal tools.
- Designed our custom system for real-time allocation of our portfolio into debt facilities.
- Designed the platform for our internal tools, which handled the entire life-cycle of our customers, from acquisition to collections, reducing the minimum time to allocation from 4 days to one.
Full-stack Developer | Konfío
(2016-08 ~ 2017-09)
- Designed and implemented solutions that provided observability into the financial and operational aspects of the company, from the health of our debt portfolio, to the efficiency of our KYC process.
Software Developer | Konfío
(2012-09 ~ 2016-08)
- Created custom software and tools that allowed customers through LATAM improve their operational efficiency, reduce costs and improve observability of the entire company through the integration with Netsuite's Cloud based ERP
