Experience

Backend, cloud, and security—with a product point of view.

3Microsoft promotions · latest in March 2025
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Core professional experience

Since 2020, my work at Microsoft has included secure backend services, APIs, certificate workflows, cloud and isolated deployments, CI/CD, and collaboration across engineering, security, and compliance. I earned three promotions during this period.

  1. 01
    Sep 2022 — Present

    Software Engineer II

    Microsoft · Purview & Signing

    Builds and maintains C#/Azure backend services and secure APIs across Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Signing, including certificate workflows, Service Fabric, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and cloud or isolated deployments. Received the third of three Microsoft promotions in March 2025.

    C#AzureService FabricCertificatesCI/CD
  2. 02
    May 2020 — Sep 2022

    Software Engineer

    Microsoft · Security & Compliance

    Contributed to secure backend services, APIs, deployment automation, reliability, and cross-disciplinary delivery. Translated technical and customer requirements into maintainable cloud and air-gapped solutions.

    C#AzureSecurityAir-gappedDelivery
  3. 03
    Nov 2017 — Jan 2019

    Product Development Engineer

    Tom Sawyer Software

    Built graph-visualization features and algorithms, supported customer work, and participated in candidate interviews.

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Selected shorter engagements

Selected shorter engagements added experience in data APIs, backend algorithms, cloud, and full-stack delivery across teams of different sizes.

01Jan — May 2020

Data Engineer

DESCIFRA

Worked on an AWS API Gateway-backed API and regression and machine-learning models.

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02Apr — Dec 2019

Backend Engineer

Boom.ai

Developed backend APIs and algorithms and contributed to requirements and iterative delivery.

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03Jan — Mar 2019

Software Engineer

United Virtualities

Worked across full-stack, cloud, and algorithmic software.

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Technical capabilities

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Languages and backend

C# · Python · Java · SQL · REST APIs · Django

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Cloud and distributed systems

Azure · Service Fabric · Distributed systems · App Service · AWS · Containers

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Security and identity

Certificates · Authentication · Authorization · OAuth 2.0 · OIDC · Key Vault

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Delivery and operations

Azure DevOps · CI/CD · Docker · Git · PostgreSQL · Redis · Celery

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Product and collaboration

System design · Architecture · Algorithms · Requirements · Agile · Mentoring

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AI-assisted development

Exploration · Prototyping · Testing · Documentation · Human review

Uses AI-assisted tools within development workflows, with human review and technical responsibility for the result.

04 / Education and teaching

4years · 2016—2020

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Computer Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Studies completed 2013–2017; degree formally conferred in 2019.

For four years (2016–2020), I worked as a Computer Science Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, supporting Programming Languages, Data Structures, and Computer Organization & Architecture.

TeachingMentoringComputer Science
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Additional learning