Summary
Cristian Lara is a senior full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable systems across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure. He has owned major projects using AWS and Terraform, designed performant Postgres schemas, authored robust Python APIs, and shipped ReactJS web applications, most recently joining Meta. A Stanford CS alumnus, Cristian’s background spans startups and research—Cyanogen, Angaza, and Stanford HPCC—where he moved infrastructure to advanced schedulers and built developer-facing tooling. He’s passionate about software design and mentorship, pairing pragmatic architecture with developer ergonomics, and his early work on iOS theming reflects a long-standing focus on polished user-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Peking University
Northwestern University
McLennan Community College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese