Karen Lara
@karenlara
Full Stack Engineer at Paciente 360, building a healthcare education platform serving 97,000+ active users.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
Senior Full Stack Developer with 9+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable web and mobile applications across medical education, logistics, e-commerce, and fintech. Deep expertise in React, Node.js, TypeScript, and cloud-native architectures on AWS, including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Cognito, Amplify, and Route 53. Proven track record of leading end-to-end development, from system design and API architecture to CI/CD automation and production monitoring.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Full Stack Developer
Paciente 360
Apr 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)
Developed a full-stack healthcare education platform serving 97,000+ active users across 2,400+ clinical cases and medical courses. Designed serverless REST APIs on AWS and built event-driven pipelines for async processing.
Full Stack Engineer
Mechi Wellness Inc
Oct 2025 - Apr 2026 (6 months)
Built and scaled consumer-facing wellness web and mobile apps from MVP to production. Architected serverless backend and integrated payment flows with Stripe, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
Full Stack Engineer
Intelipost
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024 (2 years 7 months)
Led development of microservices architecture for a major logistics platform supporting millions of shipments monthly. Built event-driven serverless functions and managed AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
Frontend Engineer
Intelipost
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 2 months)
Built logistics and delivery platforms using React, React Native, Vue.js, and TypeScript. Implemented automated testing with Jest and Cypress to increase release confidence.
Full Stack Developer
Shapeness Informatica
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)
Worked as a full stack developer on various projects.
Backend Developer
Sigcorp
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (11 months)
Worked on backend development tasks.
Jr Web Developer
Dogus Comunicacao
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year)
Worked as a junior web developer.
Jr Web Developer
Stallos Tecnologia
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 (11 months)
Worked as a junior web developer.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
IBM
Develop Generative AI Applications: Get Started, Generative AI
2026 - 2026
Completed the Develop Generative AI Applications: Get Started certification through Coursera in 2026.
Amazon Web Services
Architecting Solutions on AWS, Cloud Architecture
2026 - 2026
Completed the Architecting Solutions on AWS certification through Coursera in 2026.
IBM
Vector Databases for RAG: An Introduction, Vector Databases
2026 - 2026
Completed the Vector Databases for RAG: An Introduction certification through Coursera in 2026.
IBM
Build RAG Applications: Get Started, Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2026 - 2026
Completed the Build RAG Applications: Get Started certification through Coursera in 2026.
IBM
Fundamentals of Building AI Agents, AI Agents
2026 - 2026
Completed the Fundamentals of Building AI Agents certification through Coursera in 2026.
IBM
Advanced RAG with Vector Databases and Retrievers, Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2026 - 2026
Completed the Advanced RAG with Vector Databases and Retrievers certification through Coursera in 2026.
IBM
Build Multimodal Generative AI Applications, Multimodal Generative AI
2026 - 2026
Completed the Build Multimodal Generative AI Applications certification through Coursera in 2026.
Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul
MBA, Data Analysis, BI and Big Data
2018 - 2019
Pursued an MBA in Data Analysis, BI and Big Data at Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul from 2018 to 2019.
FATEC
Associate Degree, Web Development
2015 - 2017
Completed an Associate Degree in Web Development at FATEC from 2015 to 2017.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
AWS Amplify
Amazon S3
Jenkins
React Native
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Amazon Route 53
Node.js
Laravel
Spring Boot
Next.js
NestJS
Tailwind CSS
Jest
Cypress
React
Vue.js
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Amazon SQS
Stripe
New Relic
GraphQL
Prisma
AWS Lambda
Serverless
TypeScript
Chakra UI
Amazon Cognito
Git
Docker
SQL
Argo CD
LangGraph
ZenStack
Express
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Salary expectations
Social media
Job categories
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