Carlos Rivas
Staff Software Engineer at Block
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Rivas is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, customer-facing products from large C/C++ codebases to modern payments platforms. Based in Seattle, he currently leads architecture and cross-team delivery for Cash App Card at Block, shipping novel features like pay-over-time and transaction authentication while driving org-wide end-to-end testing and reliability improvements. Previously he advanced input, typing performance, and voice transcription across Office Online and Word for Windows at Microsoft, navigating a codebase with decades of history. Carlos combines deep systems-level knowledge with product sensibility, routinely coordinating design, compliance, and product stakeholders to turn complex requirements into secure, auditable features. He’s notable for translating hard reliability challenges into practical testing and release-gating solutions that scale across teams.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
English, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
benchmark10
jar10
benchmarking10
yahoo10
xquery9
jsoniq9
shading9
uberjar9
rfc9
gradle-plugin9
maven8
kotlin8
bundling8
apply8
fatjar8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
charlie-lobo/snippets-rules
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Snippets for security rules on firebase.google.com
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
google-firebasesecurityfirebasesecurity-rulessnippets
charlie-lobo/YCSB
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
benchmarkyahookubernetesserving
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