Summary
Angelica Pilarca is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with a decade of hands-on experience building and testing robust web applications for major news sites. She combines front-end expertise in React, Angular.js, and HTML/CSS with backend skills in Node.js, Java, and Ruby on Rails, and practical database experience across MySQL and PostgreSQL. At the Los Angeles Times she moved from QA into engineering, creating Cypress-driven automated tests and contributing to CMS, AMP, and subscription features that improved reader and editorial workflows. Organized and team-oriented from a prior management background, she thrives in cross-functional environments and values efficient, maintainable code. Outside of day-to-day work she pursues new programming concepts in her free time, which keeps her tooling and testing practices current.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Dev Bootcamp
English, French