Summary
Raymond Lopez is a Senior Software Engineer based in Las Vegas with a long-running career bridging full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and technical leadership. He has led engineering teams and built scalable PHP/Laravel and PHP/Symfony microservice architectures, while also owning AWS infrastructure and CI/CD practices across finance and mortgage domains. Raymond pairs hands-on coding (LAMP, C#, Java) with ops expertise—Terraform, Docker, ELK and performance/monitoring tooling—to deliver secure, production-grade systems. Recent roles show a pivot toward AI-enabled products and high-performance compute environments, reflecting an appetite for blending ML models into web platforms. He is comfortable mentoring teams and driving architectural decisions, having managed and grown small engineering squads while maintaining contributor-level involvement. An early adopter of pragmatic tooling and deployment patterns, he often focuses on observability and operational resilience as first-class design concerns.
5 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bakersfield College