Jesse Quiroga
@jessequiroga1
Senior/Staff software engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native systems and machine learning-driven platforms.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior/Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years designing and delivering scalable platforms at companies including Google and Slack, specializing in machine learning systems, real-time messaging infrastructure, and advertising technology.
I build end-to-end solutions from React and Angular frontends to distributed backend services, and have implemented AI/ML optimization engines, real-time auction processing, and cloud-native architectures on GCP and AWS.
I mentor cross-functional teams, establish coding and ML workflow standards, and lead technical design reviews to produce high-impact products that serve billions of users while maintaining reliability and performance.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
GOLed core features for Google's Smart Bidding and Performance Max platforms, building distributed auction and fraud-detection systems that processed billions of real-time requests and improved campaign optimization across multiple channels.
GORebuilt YouTube's recommendation pipeline from collaborative filtering to deep neural networks, deploying two-stage candidate generation and ranking systems that served personalized recommendations to billions of users.
STCo-architected Slack's real-time messaging platform during public beta, building WebSocket-based backends and scalable infrastructure that grew to millions of daily active users while maintaining sub-50ms message latencies.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
TAThe University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2009 - 2013
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects in software engineering, distributed systems, and algorithms.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
D3.js
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
RxJS
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
React Native
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Gmail
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
.NET Core
Next.js
.NET
Tailwind CSS
Material-UI
Redis
Terraform
Mocha
JavaScript
Java
PHP
Kotlin
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Kafka
RabbitMQ
FastAPI
GraphQL
gRPC
Elasticsearch
Serverless
pytest
JUnit
Apache Beam
SQL
Playwright
Availability
Location
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Job categories
Skills
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