Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead Mercado Libre
Led a team of five software engineers for four years as Acting Team Lead and Team Lead, handling ETA definition, code reviews, mentoring, technical leadership, and cross-team coordination. Collaborated for one year with engineering teams in Brazil and led technical discussions to accelerate joint implementations. Participated in promotions, hiring, and offboarding processes.
Designed and developed the Mercado Envíos shipping component, mobile listing flows, the Sales Preferences module, and an auto parts compatibility loader. Developed and consumed RESTful APIs and GraphQL services in a microservices architecture while applying object-oriented design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code, unit testing, and CI/CD practices.
Refactored and optimized the Bulk Publisher backend service by improving Apache POI Excel transformation logic, reducing processing times from hours to minutes and generating estimated savings of approximately USD 1,000 per day. Designed reusable components adopted by multiple product teams and supported production debugging and Java migrations.