Hector Torres
@hectortorres
Senior Ruby on Rails engineer building fast, reliable GraphQL backends and production-ready full-stack systems.
Dominican RepublicWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior full-stack engineer with 5+ years shipping production Ruby on Rails systems for US remote companies. I’m known for taking ownership of critical integrations and making them dependable under real-world load.
At Travelstride, I’m a top contributor across core Rails GraphQL and Next.js/React repos, with ~2,000 combined commits. I hardened HubSpot CRM booking/lead sync (deal mapping, failure alerts, pipeline fields) so merchant bookings stay consistent in production CRM.
I also drove end-to-end features like Custom Trip Creator and traveler lead-intake flows, building the Rails services, GraphQL fields, and traveler UI. For payments, I implemented traveler reservation/payment UX against PayPal, improving checkout success rate by ~70%.
On the GovTech side, I contribute to a Django/DRF + React/TypeScript product while working on Travelstride. I’ve improved performance with PostgreSQL trigram indexing, added time-to-close metrics via Django ORM aggregates, migrated PDF viewing to react-pdf/PDF.js, and kept OpenAPI → TypeScript clients current.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Travelstride
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026 (3 years 1 month)
Top contributor building Rails + GraphQL backend and a Next.js/React storefront for a US travel marketplace. Hardened HubSpot CRM sync, shipped end-to-end lead intake and trip creation flows, and improved PayPal checkout reliability while optimizing PostgreSQL queries.
Full-Stack Developer
Clarity Value
Jan 2023 - Jul 2026 (3 years 6 months)
Contributed to a GovTech SaaS using Django/DRF and React/TypeScript. Improved government records search performance with PostgreSQL indexing, added time-to-close metrics to email reports, migrated PDF viewing to react-pdf/PDF.js, and maintained OpenAPI-to-TypeScript clients.
Full-Stack Developer
INAIPI
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 11 months)
Built backend systems in C# and SQL Server, including schema design and internal tools focused on data integrity and performance.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2017 - 2020
Earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey from 2017 to 2020.
Availability
Location
Dominican RepublicAuthorized to work in
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