Summary
Numa Quevedo is a seasoned Software Engineer and technical lead with 11 years delivering scalable web applications and cloud-native systems from New York. He blends deep PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter) and React expertise with AWS-driven event architectures and microservices, having modernized legacy platforms to achieve sub-99.8% downtime during peaks. At Refersion he led architecture for Lambda/SQS microservices and helped build an internal payments platform that improved UX and retention, while continuously lifting developer productivity through CI/CD and test automation. Comfortable across frontend and backend, he also drove large performance wins—cutting report generation times by 90%—and has a track record mentoring engineers and aligning engineering with product and business goals. Notably, his work often focuses on making data-heavy systems reliably performant and operationally simple, turning brittle legacy code into maintainable, event-driven services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Western Governors University