About

Luis Perez is a highly experienced Senior Node.js/Typescript Backend Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He has a deep understanding of Node.js, ReactJS, Typescript, MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Microservice Architecture, and many more. Luis has a unique insight into the best practices, processes, and strategy necessary to build and run great product and engineering teams, based on his extensive experience from multiple roles. Currently working at Twitter as a Senior Typescript Backend Engineer, Luis has served as an application architect and technical lead for in-house software projects written in Node.js and Typescript. He led the development of the flagship procurement and pricing application and worked with the pricing team to gather evolving requirements in an Agile environment. He implemented features and stayed aware of changing requirements, developed monthly energy usage smoothing and gap filling algorithms, and automated solar net-excess generation crediting with the goal of forecasting monthly credits for budgeting purposes. Luis has also maintained multiple Linux instances in four different environments and set up developer environments with Docker, including local instances and database connections. In the past, Luis has worked as a Senior Typescript Backend Engineer at Toptal, where he developed a demand-side platform for the real-time bidding of display advertising. He used Node.js/Typescript to build the backend infrastructure, implemented AWS Lambda based serverless functions, and used MongoDB as the database. Luis contributed to the build of infrastructure automation and operations using Kubernetes and Docker, was involved with server memory and performance profiling, developed operational alerting management, implemented load balancing, and worked on the global-scaling of the infrastructure. He also implemented CI/CD through Azure and Jenkins. Luis has also worked as a Senior Node.js Backend Engineer at Ingaia, where he implemented Node.js based microservices, used MongoDB and Mongoose for meta data, MySQL and Sequelize for critical data, ElasticSearch as a search database, and RabbitMQ for communication between microservices. He deployed microservices to Google Kubernetes and implemented CI using GitlabCI. Luis holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico. His technical skills include Backend, Typescript, NodeJS, Javascript, Senior Software Engineer, Infra, Docker, MongoDB, Microservices, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Postgres, CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search, and Search. Luis has relevant experience of 10.44 years in the industry.