Summary
Carlos Vega is a Senior Software Architect based in San Francisco with 15+ years driving full-stack engineering and architecture for high-profile clients across entertainment, travel, and media. He blends hands-on backend work in Python, NodeJS and Clojure with front-end expertise and cloud-native delivery (AWS, EKS, CDN/Akamai), routinely improving performance and automation at scale. Known for stabilizing mission-critical e-commerce and media platforms, he has delivered measurable business impact—such as dramatic test-time reductions, multi-million dollar cost savings at Disney, and revenue-preserving fixes at Royal Caribbean. He mentors teams, leads cross-functional architecture (BFF, GraphQL, Strangler Pattern), and builds developer productivity tooling and LLM-enabled automation. Practical, results-oriented, and comfortable translating complex systems into repeatable solutions, he pairs deep engineering craft with a track record of operationalizing innovation.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
English, Spanish