Summary
Mario Rodriguez is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade-plus background in Python-driven backend systems, currently shaping services at The Walt Disney Company after contracting through TEKsystems. Trained as an electrical engineer at Purdue, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with practical software craftsmanship—shipping data-focused tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices across domains from atmospheric science to entertainment. He has hands-on experience with Django, FastAPI, NumPy/Pandas, Kafka and Google Pub/Sub, and a track record of modernizing legacy scientific code and automating package releases. Comfortable in remote and cross-functional teams, he pairs API and data engineering skills with performance testing and observability practices. Outside core development, he has built customer-facing web products and engineering GUIs, demonstrating an ability to translate user feedback into measurable improvements.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Electrical Engineering, B.S Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
English, Spanish, Italian