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Rafael Orozco

@rafaelorozco

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Senior engineering leader delivering high-scale AWS-native SaaS platforms and distributed teams.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek leadership roles where I can build and coach distributed engineering teams, drive AWS-native platform modernization, ensure reliability, and deliver customer-focused SaaS at scale.

I am a senior engineering leader with a track record of building and leading distributed, cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-scale AWS-native SaaS products. I hire, coach, and mentor engineers while driving architecture and operational excellence.

At Sigmaways and Bynder I led global teams and modernized platforms—migrating monoliths to microservices, optimizing AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, EFS, Elasticsearch), and reducing operating costs by six figures annually. I own production reliability, incident response, and high availability for enterprise customers.

I have delivered healthcare call-center and patient-management SaaS platforms, AI-driven marketing intelligence integrations with OpenAI, and numerous third-party integrations to streamline media ingestion and distribution. My technical background includes backend API design, asynchronous processing, and analytics/dashboarding solutions.

I am AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, focused on measurable business impact, cross-team collaboration, and delivering customer-centric solutions at scale. I prioritize hiring strong teams, clear ownership, and continuous improvement in engineering practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Sr. Engineering Manager

Sigmaways, Inc.

Nov 2023 - Jan 2026 (2 years 2 months)

Built and led three globally distributed teams (15 engineers, QA, DevOps) to deliver multiple AWS-native SaaS products, including a healthcare call-center solution and patient management platform, and an AI-driven marketing intelligence platform integrating OpenAI.

Team Leadership AWS React MongoDB PHP MySQL SaaS

Sr. Engineering Manager

Bynder, Inc.

Nov 2018 - Nov 2023 (5 years)

Led a distributed cross-functional engineering organization (17 engineers, QA, DevOps), modernized a digital asset management platform from monolith to microservices, optimized AWS infrastructure and reduced operating costs by six figures annually while improving scalability and reliability.

Leadership Microservices AWS EC2 RDS S3 Elasticsearch Reliability CI CD

Lead Backend Software Engineer

Sellpoints, Inc.

Feb 2017 - Oct 2018 (1 year 8 months)

Built backend and REST APIs for a retargeting platform rewrite, implemented asynchronous sync with AppNexus, and led hiring and training of backend and frontend engineers to support ad campaign management workflows.

PHP MySQL Redis AWS REST APIs AppNexus Asynchronous

Sr. Software Engineer

Sigmaways, Inc.

Jul 2016 - Feb 2017 (7 months)

Designed and developed an internal recruiting tool storing resumes in S3, parsing with Sovren API to extract candidate data, and enabling search, notes, and messaging to streamline hiring workflows.

AWS S3 MySQL Sovren API Backend Development Search

Lead Application Engineer

Mode Media Corporation

May 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years 1 month)

Designed and developed an advertising impression reservation and forecasting system to optimize campaign bookings across thousands of publishers, improving revenue by maximizing bookings and reallocating impressions.

Forecasting Capacity Planning System Design Optimization Backend Engineering

Sr. Software Engineer

Bright Media Corporation

Aug 2013 - Feb 2014 (6 months)

Developed REST APIs for decision-tree driven page flows to improve monetization and A/B testing, performed site-wide SEO and sitemap optimizations that grew sitemaps from 13K to 600K URLs and doubled SEO traffic in three months.