Summary
Jairo Pava is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading quality-driven engineering teams and scaling test automation and observability at organizations like Panorama Education and Ultimate/UKG. He specializes in building testing strategies, developer training, and metrics-driven tooling (Elasticsearch, Grafana, SonarQube) that shift quality ownership to engineers and accelerate delivery. Jairo blends hands-on technical experience across Java, Python and Go with CI/CD and infrastructure know-how (TeamCity, Concourse, Jenkins) to reduce regression times and eliminate repeat production issues. He has also taught software testing at the university level and led applied research software projects earlier in his career, bringing both mentorship and an academic mindset to product engineering. Based in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale area, he combines practical leadership with a track record of measurable improvements in velocity and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia University
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Florida International University
Spanish, English