Melissa Canales
Software Engineering Manager Senior Software Engineer at Cotality
Chula Vista, California, United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Canales is a seasoned software engineering manager and full-stack developer with over 24 years of professional experience delivering end-to-end software solutions across both agile and waterfall environments. Currently leading engineering at Cotality, she brings deep hands-on expertise in requirements, design, development, and documentation from long tenures at ClosingCorp, First Allied Securities, and GMAC/ResCap. Known for bridging technical execution with team leadership, she has a track record of modernizing systems and guiding cross-functional teams through complex delivery lifecycles. Based in Chula Vista, CA, she holds a Computer Science background from the University of San Diego and blends legacy system fluency with contemporary development practices. Notably, her sustained career continuity in mortgage and financial software demonstrates an uncommon depth of domain knowledge that helps translate regulatory and business constraints into robust engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of San DiegoGithub contributions (5)
missmeliss621/Codeup-Web-Exercises
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
missmeliss621/Codeup-Exercises
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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