Jose Gallegos is a Senior Backend Engineer in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building reliable, testable systems from design through deployment. He has driven end-to-end backend pipelines and zero-downtime migrations at Square, improved billing and payment integrations at Linden Lab, and modernized platform tooling across retail and ecommerce companies. Jose blends pragmatic architecture and automation—making APIs idempotent, leveraging shadow traffic for safe cutovers, and using generative AI to accelerate legacy migrations—to reduce operational risk and speed rollouts. He contributes to open-source projects like Timegrid, improving UX and localization in a Laravel appointments platform, showing a full-stack attention to detail beyond backend services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at California State University, Monterey Bay
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Los Angeles City College
Free, open-source, online appointments platform based on Laravel PHP Framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:38 commits, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on front-end and back-end improvements within the Laravel PHP Framework. Their contributions included centering and resizing OAuth2 links, fixing spacing, and adjusting the navbar for better display. They also addressed issues related to handling no subscriptions and businesses, along with adding various translations. Additionally, they corrected button phrasing, condensed CSS, and fixed layout issues for improved user experience.
Contributions:124 commits, 4 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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Jose Gallegos - Senior Backend Engineer at Fanatics