Summary
Carlos Cuevas is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems and cloud infrastructure, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in New York. He played a central role on Etsy’s payments team, architecting microservices and GCP-based infrastructure that processed billions annually and scaled transaction capacity 10x during peak demand. As a hands-on tech lead he led crisis-response efforts during SVB’s insolvency, integrated third-party payment APIs to enable over 10 million charitable donations, and drove migrations from monoliths to cloud-native services. He also brings leadership and teaching experience as an adjunct professor developing real-world database curricula and as a former engineering manager at startups where he owned end-to-end product delivery. Comfortable across backend, databases, DevOps and frontend stacks, he blends deep operational experience with an ability to translate complex systems into teachable projects. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often surfaces durable infrastructure fixes during on-call rotations that prevent repeat incidents.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Computer Science, Master of Arts (MA) Computer Science at Brooklyn College