Jimmy Rivera
Software Engineer at Cachengo, Inc.
Puerto Rico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Rivera is a software engineer and data scientist with 11 years of experience blending rigorous academic research and hands-on product engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA and has translated domain expertise in modeling and high-performance computation into roles at Facebook (infrastructure/anti-scraping), Udacity, and current engineering work at Harmonic. As Co-Founder and CTO of Cachengo, he shapes storage strategy while maintaining a strong data-science mindset from prior research that accelerated ODE solutions by ~10x. Based in Puerto Rico, he pairs startup leadership with production-scale engineering, often opting for pragmatic, simple solutions to complex systems. An unusual mix of wet-lab modeling, large-scale infrastructure, and teaching (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructor experience) gives him a distinctive blend of discipline, mentorship, and systems thinking.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (39)
des9
padding9
hmac9
libsodium8
crypto8
aes-gcm8
portable7
cryptography7
high-performance6
autocomplete6
proxy6
mongodb5
golang5
heterogeneous5
onvif5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cachengo/sso_example
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
cachengo/video-ai-object-detection
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
A sample service that fetches videos from a Kafka queue and performs object detection on them
Contributions:25 PRs, 120 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 5 months
videosobject-detectionfetcheskafka
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