Summary
Salas Sanchez is an Integration Engineer with 11 years of software experience, currently at Stripe and based in Denver, Colorado. He combines a strong background in backend and AWS-native architectures—building event-driven ETL pipelines, serverless APIs, and observability tooling—with a philosophy-trained knack for clear abstraction and communication. At ChowNow he led the company’s first event-driven pipeline and tripled test coverage through pragmatic refactoring and mentorship, and at Maxar he single-handedly built a geospatial elevation API using GDAL and NumPy. Comfortable across Python, Terraform, Step Functions, and CI/CD, he pairs hands-on implementation with teaching experience from academia and internal tech talks. His unusual mix of PhD-level analytical rigor and production-grade engineering makes him adept at turning complex domain problems into testable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Philosophy, PhD Philosophy at The City University of New York
BA and MPhil Philosophy, BA and MPhil Philosophy at King's College London
Hackbright
Spanish, Catalan, French