Froilán Rivera is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently leading engineering work at Bloomberg Industry Group. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Python and Node.js with practical database and infrastructure skills across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle and MySQL, and a history of designing high-availability web APIs and data pipelines. A strong advocate for open source and civic tech—reflecting his work on Code.gov and a GitHub bio that champions open government technology—he bridges public-sector standards with product engineering. Froilán has led teams at Uplight to deliver sustainable-data platforms, supported developer-facing services at GitHub, and started early companies, giving him both startup agility and enterprise rigor. Bilingual in English and Spanish, he brings analytical rigor, code optimization focus, and a track record of turning legacy systems into modern RESTful architectures.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-San German Campus
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-Metro Campus
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Froilán Rivera - Principal Engineer at Bloomberg Industry Group