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Miguel Saldana

@miguelsaldana1

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Senior AI and full-stack engineer building generative AI, APIs, and cloud-native platforms that scale.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can build and scale generative AI and retrieval-augmented systems end-to-end—securely integrating with enterprise platforms—while owning architecture, production reliability, and mentoring teams.

Senior AI and Full-Stack Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting scalable enterprise applications, cloud-native platforms, AI-powered products, and distributed backend systems. Experienced in building generative AI applications, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, intelligent agents, microservices, APIs, data-processing workflows, and responsive web applications.

Strong background in Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, event-driven architecture, and modern DevOps practices. Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into secure, maintainable technical solutions while collaborating with product managers, designers, data scientists, security specialists, and engineering teams. Experienced in technical leadership, architecture reviews, production troubleshooting, code quality improvement, and mentoring engineers throughout the software development lifecycle.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

SoftServe

Jul 2025 - Jun 2026 (11 months)

Designed and delivered enterprise AI applications combining large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and secure integrations. Built scalable backend services and web interfaces for AI-powered document analysis, workflow management, and evaluation reporting.

RAG Large Language Models Embeddings Vector Databases Prompt Engineering fastAPI REST APIs Event Driven Architecture Python TypeScript React Next.js Kubernetes Docker CI CD Role Based Access Control Secrets Management Audit Logging Security Hardening

Senior Software Engineer

BigCommerce

Jan 2022 - Jun 2025 (3 years 5 months)

Designed and enhanced API-first commerce services for catalogs, carts, checkouts, customers, orders, pricing, inventory, promotions, and storefront experiences. Built headless and multi-storefront capabilities, improved service performance and reliability, and strengthened security and automated testing.

REST APIs GraphQL React Next.js TypeScript Server Side Rendering Caching Webhooks Message Queues Event Driven Architecture Query Optimization Pagination Strategies Authentication Authorization Secrets Management Automation Testing Contract Testing End To End Testing

Software Engineer II / Middle

Google

Mar 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 9 months)

Designed and implemented scalable backend and data-processing services for cloud-based products and internal developer workflows. Developed event-driven systems, analytics pipelines, internal web applications, and production reliability practices including monitoring and CI/CD automation.

Software Engineer I / Junior

Google

Oct 2017 - Feb 2019 (1 year 4 months)

Developed and maintained web application features using Java and JavaScript/TypeScript, leveraging established engineering frameworks. Built frontend components and backend endpoints with input validation, structured logging and request tracing, and automated testing to improve reliability and usability.