Summary
Carlos Aguilera is a Lead Software Engineer and entrepreneur with six years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack web products across Nuxt, Supabase, NestJS, and Django. He combines product-minded engineering—shipping real-time chat, SSR for SEO, AI-enhanced search, and Stripe subscription flows—with pragmatic performance work like DOM recycling, LQIP, and CDN-based media optimization that reduced load times and costs. At Ethika he drove creative, high-impact features from a 20,000-player promotional game to a Wix-like page builder and an Algolia-integrated tagging system that cut search costs. He also has robotics experience, integrating ROS2 with a Django GUI for rover control, and has led teams through analytics migrations (UA to GA4) and affiliate platform rollouts. Based in Southern California, Carlos blends startup ownership instincts with measurable product results—200+ sign-ups, half-million game plays, and noticeable UX and cost improvements—while mentoring and documenting repeatable engineering practices.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.78, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.78 at California State University, Long Beach
Associate's degree, Computer Science, 3.85, Associate's degree, Computer Science, 3.85 at Saddleback College