Summary
Desiree Mora is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with eight years of experience building scalable full‑stack systems, currently architecting high‑traffic merchant reporting platforms at JPMorgan Chase using Java/Spring Boot, React, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and Terraform. She blends a technical core in JavaScript, Java and Python with a humanities background in Women’s & Gender Studies and the arts, bringing a human‑centric, creative approach to complex engineering problems. A certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, Desiree drives CI/CD and observability best practices across microservices and led a hackathon-winning project now under patent consideration. She champions inclusive engineering as a BRG leader and volunteer with Girls Who Code, and applies accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1) in production work. Outside of code she drums in a punk band, reflecting her knack for collaborative, experimental problem‑solving that shows up in both feature delivery and team culture.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Woman and Gender Studies, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Woman and Gender Studies at University of South Florida
English, Spanish, French