Angelica Rivas
Senior Software Engineer at Clariness
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAngelica Rivas is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 13 years of experience building backend systems and APIs across startups and growth-stage companies. She specializes in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Postgres/MySQL, Redis, GraphQL and AWS, and has a track record of architecting scalable features for scheduling, messaging and integrations that supported 20x customer growth during the pandemic. As an early hire at TeleVet she helped grow the engineering team, owned tech debt remediation, and drove reliability improvements through tests and database optimizations. At Life Biosciences she bridged product and lab teams, automating PK analysis to accelerate scientist workflows by an order of magnitude. Comfortable wearing many hats, she combines hands-on coding with mentoring and hiring experience, and a background that spans iOS prototyping to clinical research coordination. Her pragmatic focus on measurable impact—latency reductions, automation that speeds workflows, and scalable integrations—distinguishes her engineering approach.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Psychology and pre-medicine, B.A., Psychology and pre-medicine at Swarthmore CollegeM.A., Computer Science, M.A., Computer Science at Queens CollegeCUNY Tech Apprenticeship Program
Github Skills (16)
twilio-api6
dao6
saml6
ruby6
twilio6
database5
ruby-on-rails5
mongodb5
sharding5
serverless5
activerecord4
graphql4
orm3
mysql3
postgresql3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
angelicas/samplecode
Apr 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 9 months
acontero/televet_interview
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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