Carlos Saavedra
Senior Backend Engineer at Enova International
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCarlos Saavedra is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems and a decade-long obsession with Golang. He has led backend migrations and designed scalable financial and crypto platforms—moving an entire stack from Ruby to Go and delivering fault-tolerant APIs for ATMs, POS devices, and web services. Comfortable across the stack, Carlos pairs algorithmic optimization and SQL expertise with practical experience in Kubernetes, GCP, Rust tooling, and observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana. He’s mentored junior engineers and taken ownership of reliability, logging, and incident workflows to keep production systems healthy. Based in Chicago, he balances pragmatic engineering with a playful curiosity—known to prototype utilities like a Rust database anonymizer for safer local development.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Web Development, Associate of Science (A.S.) Web Development at Waubonsee Community College
Spanish, Polish, German, English
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Github Skills (50)
sms10
twilio10
session-cookie9
vonage9
voice9
dpl8
twilio-api8
programming-language8
golang8
go-kit8
session-management7
encoder7
minecraft7
http-session7
css7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
0syntrax0/go-address-parser
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
0syntrax0/go-bikeindex
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Unofficial golang API library for https://bikeindex.org
Contributions:22 PRs, 12 pushes, 23 branches in 5 months
golangapigoapi-librarygolang-api
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