About

Rick Alarcon ♾ is a highly experienced software engineer with over 6 years of proven track record in analytics, engineering, and design to software engineer consultant for Top 100 Fortune Clients. He has led and managed vast global user data and marketing strategies while staying up to speed with new technologies and implementing them to digital platforms to increase branding and marketing impact on World's top leading products. Rick is also part of the Y Combinator network. Rick's key skills include software engineering, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Express.js, Redis, Hapi, ETL, Big data, Analytics, Google Internal Tools, GCP, ML, Python, Cross-functional Management, Digital Marketing Platforms, Database Optimization, Bilingual (Spanish), Fintech, Blockchain, and Product engineer. He is interested in software engineering, Backend, Generalist SWE, Distributed systems, AWS, Fintech, and Social Impact Startups. Currently, Rick is a Software Engineer at WEVO Conversion, where he is building the core infrastructure and integrations for the next generation of UX research at scale. The company has achieved Seed and Series A milestones. Previously, Rick worked as a Software Engineer, Data Consultant (via Fractal Analytics) at Google, where he designed and developed the end-to-end data infrastructure and analytics platforms for the YouTube Creators Marketing scaled comms (Email and In-product) and users at scale. He also led cross-functional collaboration between different product engineering teams and senior business leaders to implement and build the architecture for the YouTube Creators Scaled Comms data ecosystem using AI, engineering, and design. Rick also worked as a Software Engineer, Data and ML at Reelbabble Startup, where he collected, cleaned, and prepared datasets, coded and debugged algorithms to help train the datasets, used deep learning computer vision tools such as Turi Create and TensorFlow to train the image recognition machine learning models using neural networks, and applied the CoreML framework to implement and integrate the machine learning models into their iOS app. Rick holds a B.S. in Mathematical Analytics and Operations Research with a minor in Statistics from the University of California, Davis, an A.A in Economics, A.S in Mathematics, and an A.A in Interdisciplinary Studies with Emphases on Social and Behavioral Science from Cañada College, and he studied abroad in Economics at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Top 1 Public University in Peru. Rick has a diverse tech stack