Summary
Hugo Ochoa is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated systems across startups and scale-oriented teams. He blends backend and frontend expertise—Node.js, TypeScript, PHP, MongoDB, GraphQL and modern JS frameworks—with a strong focus on software quality, automation, standardization, and CI/CD practices. As a former tech cofounder and tech lead, he has owned infrastructure and SRE responsibilities on AWS/Kubernetes as well as product delivery, pairing hands-on coding with project management (JIRA/Confluence, Scrum). At Instawork he drives engineering standards at scale, and his past roles include leading migrations and billing systems that improved reliability and developer productivity. He studied computer science at UNAM and pursued machine learning coursework at Concordia, reflecting a mix of practical production engineering and curiosity about ML.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Concordia University
Spanish, English