Carlos Torres
Engineering Manager at Zonda
Cartago Province, Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Torres is an Engineering Manager and frontend specialist with over 15 years of experience who combines hands-on performance engineering with empathetic team leadership. He leads frontend development for NewHomeSource at Zonda, where he drives architectural modernization, mentoring, and measurable web performance gains that preserved SEO and cut page load times significantly. Beginning as a full‑stack .NET developer, he pivoted to focus on frontend speed, UX and developer experience—bringing a systems mindset to UI problems. Carlos has a track record of embedding performance culture into teams via automated monitoring and coaching, improving metrics like First Contentful Paint by ~30%. Based in Cartago, Costa Rica, he excels at helping teams move fast without sacrificing stability or long-term maintainability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic executor who prioritizes outcomes for both users and developers.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Internacional de las AméricasAssociate's degree, Software Developer, Associate's degree, Software Developer at Colegio Técnico Don Bosco
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
http-archive10
bigquery10
javascript8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
c-torres/third-party-web
May 2019 - Jun 2021
Data on third party entities and their impact on the web.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
partythird-party
c-torres/how-browsers-work
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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