👋 About

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# 👋 About
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<img src="me.jpg" alt="Me" width="128" class="rounded-full object-cover" />
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**Sebastian**
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I'm a Full-stack Software Engineer with experience designing and building systems from the ground up.
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At NerdWallet, I designed and built a Data Change Event caching system (Go, Terraform, DynamoDB, SQS) processing 1-10 million events daily to reduce debugging time for User Ops. At Miva, I developed a Python microservice integrated with a Laravel application to model phone queue behavior and optimize call agent scheduling, reducing customer wait times by 10%.
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While in college, I founded JsonPDF, a developer tool for converting JSON data to PDF documents (React, Node.js, MongoDB) with help from USF's Student Innovation Incubator and the NSF I-Corps program, earning me Tampa Bay Inno's 25 Under 25 award.
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I'm currently seeking a full-stack or back-end software engineering position where I can leverage my skill set to advance a meaningful mission.
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## 💼 Experience
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### Software Consultant
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**Self-employed** · Aug 2016 - Present
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- Developed big data internal applications and microservices using React, Node.js, MySQL, Next.js, PHP, and jQuery for an automotive software company.
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- Led front-end development for warranty analysis tool saving clients millions by optimizing warranty labor rate recovery from manufacturers.
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- Refactored business KPI reporting system and reduced load times from over 10 seconds to less than 1.
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### Software Engineer Intern
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**NerdWallet · FinTech** · May 2022 - Aug 2022
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- Built and deployed a Data Change Event cache application to reduce debugging time for the User Ops team using Go, Terraform, AWS Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Simple Notification System (SNS), Simple Queue System (SQS), and DynamoDB.
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- Deployed to production, successfully handling 1-10 million messages daily.
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- Configured DataDog to monitor throughput and performance.
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### Founder
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**JsonPDF · Startup** · Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
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- Open-source project providing a REST API driven solution for dynamic PDF design and rendering through a SaaS model.
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- Designed complex drag-and-drop visual designer and scalable API architecture.
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- Developed using Node.js, MongoDB, React, the Next.js framework, and Stripe.
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- Selected for the USF Student Innovation Incubator and NSF I-Corps program, applying lean startup strategies to validate product-market fit.
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### Software Developer Intern
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**Miva · Ecommerce** · Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
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- Developed Python Flask microservice to run a data science model to simulate and estimate a phone queue, reducing customer wait times by 10%.
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- Integrated microservice into an existing PHP Laravel scheduling application to optimize call agent scheduling to reduce wait time and overhead.
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- Improved team engineering practices by introducing standardized version control workflows in collaboration with a data science intern and a senior software engineer mentor.
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## ⚡ Skills
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**Frontend:** JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, MaterialUI, HTML, CSS.
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**Backend:** Node.js, Go, Python, PHP.
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**Database:** MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Firestore, Redis.
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**Cloud:** Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform.
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**Tools:** Docker, CI/CD, Automated Testing, Terraform, Linux, Agile, Jira.
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**Languages:** English and Spanish.
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## 🎓 Education
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### University of South Florida
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B.S. in Computer Science, 2025
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Minor in Entrepreneurship
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## 🏆 Awards
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### **2022 Tampa Bay Inno 25 Under 25**
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Nominated by USF Student Innovation Incubator and awarded by Tampa Bay Business Journal.
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## 📫 Contact
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[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebario/)