Ricardo Gallegos
Software Engineering Manager at UPSIDER, Inc.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Gallegos is a Software Engineering Manager with 9 years of full-stack and cloud-native experience, currently leading global multilingual teams at UPSIDER across IAM and fintech domains. He previously served as a technical lead at Mercari, driving a high-stakes migration from PHP/HTTP to Go and gRPC for endpoints handling up to half a billion daily requests, and routinely works with Kubernetes, GCP Spanner, BigQuery, Terraform, and observability tooling. A hands-on engineer who enjoys learning new languages and technologies, he pairs deep systems experience with a knack for motivating distributed teams and aligning them around ambitious goals. He also mentors aspiring developers and has built full-stack projects spanning Node.js, TypeScript, React, and serverless/AWS stacks, reflecting both product-focused delivery and developer coaching.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bonita High SchoolHigh School, High School at Diamond Bar High SchoolMt. San Antonio CollegeUniversity of California, Los AngelesComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
javascript10
windows10
linux10
rocket10
js10
macos10
nodejs10
spanner6
google-cloud-platform6
js-client5
command-line-tool5
google-cloud5
gcp5
google-workspace5
mongoose4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
f-4/WalkSafe
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 18 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
Toucans456/Toucans456
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:83 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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