Claudio Melendrez

Designed and delivered an API-first financial data entry subsystem with an AI-based automation layer that replaced manual processing across multiple ingestion workflows. Architected a master entity resolution service to unify customer/entity data across third-party providers with conflicting schemas and led re-architecture to gRPC microservices.

Led backend implementation of product initiatives, improving unit testing scaffolding and instrumentation tools to reduce critical service build time by 60%. Established software design, testing, and maintainability guidelines and collaborated with the architecture board on new product initiative designs.

Org: Alexa Smart Home
Took over as scrum master during an organizational restructuring phase and led integration of the Alexa ecosystem with existing Dash services for a US-market release. Established monitoring baselines to improve service observability and long-term productivity.

Org: Network Configuration Management
Developed processes and tools to migrate network device provisioning services during region builds without interruption or data loss. Designed and led workflows for unattended region builds, including provisioning new network devices and rack designs.

Project: National Geographic Yourshot
Stabilized a system after an unsuccessful stabilization phase by improving unit test scaffolding to speed development and increase code coverage. Refactored an integration to reduce latency and improve consistency, and led design and implementation of a social networking prototype for followers and streams.

Project: National Geographic
Added static code analysis to release processes across projects by defining SonarQube validation rules for Python codebases. Designed and implemented development metrics dashboards in Domo aggregating Jira, Bamboo, and SonarQube data.

Project: SquareTrade
Set up unit test scaffolding to enable test-driven development for a new project. Led refactoring efforts to reduce technical debt after the prototyping phase.

Project: Merchant Atlas
Developed asynchronous workflows to extract and process data from social networks (e.g., Facebook, Yelp, Manta) and crowdsourcing services (Mechanical Turk). Integrated machine learning algorithms with existing data models, set up periodic training and automatic model promotion, and led system design during migration to microservices.

Designed and developed a system to track worker timesheets and machinery usage for cost and productivity analysis. Set up infrastructure and deployment processes and authored operations documentation to support system runtime readiness.

Built a web application to replace a legacy RAD system for tracking worker timesheets using existing HR systems to eliminate redundant data entry. Designed and implemented a company-wide cost tracking tool, managed infrastructure and deployments, and optimized payroll processing performance for the HR department.

Tracked engineering, procurement, and construction progress against project schedules and established productivity tracking for construction activities using new company standards. Improved visibility into project execution by aligning operational reporting to defined metrics.

Enrolled in a BSc. Software Engineering program but withdrew after the second semester to work full-time at BairesDev.

Studied BSc. Computer Science but withdrew after the second year to work full-time at Saipem Nigeria.