Senior Software Engineer
I am a user-focused engineer specializing in high-performance media players, mobile platforms, and scalable backend architectures. Ex-YouTube Playback.
Core Domains of Expertise
My career bridges low-level pipelines, high-performance mobile clients, and web backend architectures.
Player & Media Infrastructure
Designing and maintaining high-availability video/audio pipelines. Deep expertise in streaming protocols, stability, and low-latency mobile engines.
- Streaming Infrastructure
- Protocols & Codecs
- High Performance Players
Mobile Platforms & Rendering Engine
Architecture of high-efficiency native iOS & Android applications with custom renderers and memory-sensitive streaming decoders.
- Native Platforms: Native iOS & Android mobile software architectures with modular codebases.
- Performance: Minimizing app load times, profiling thread utilization, and pooling memory allocations.
Backend & Full-Stack
Building complete, clean end-to-end web applications, integrating APIs, deploying cloud services, and using next-gen tools to accelerate product delivery.
- End-to-End Apps: Developing fully integrated web systems using Rails backends and interactive Next.js frontends.
- Cloud & Serverless: Deployed AWS serverless stacks (Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB) and GCP container environments.
Career Timeline
A look at the roles and teams I've worked with since 2011.
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Independent Software Engineer
April 2026 - PresentSelf-Employed
Alajuela, Costa Rica- Architected serverless cloud applications and API integrations for client ecosystems.
- Decoupled monolithic platforms into scalable, clean API-first backends and modern decoupled frontends.
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Software Engineer
May 2021 - March 2026Google LLC / Playback Experience @ YouTube
San Bruno, California- Engineered cross-platform designs and backend player telemetry to optimize playback stability at planet scale for YouTube.
- Drove technical designs for media creation workflows and time-range data retrieval protocols.
- Debugged live infrastructure pipelines to boost watch times and minimize platform join latencies.
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Senior Software Engineer
Jan. 2013 - May 2021Bounce Imaging, Inc
Boston, Massachusetts- Developed native mobile viewer applications to stream real-time panoramic videos.
- Designed and implemented high-performance graphics engines to accelerate video stitching outputs.
- Optimized memory footings and allocation runtimes for resource-constrained systems.
- Engineered Rails backend architectures to manage global production telemetry, devices, and inventory.
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Co-founder & CTO
Dec. 2018 - May 2021ConstruYO
San Jose, Costa Rica- Co-founded and engineered online construction marketplace systems using Ruby on Rails.
- Designed cloud architecture, server provisioning, and automated build flows.
- Represented technical architecture for national startup accelerator showcases.
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Lecturer
Jul. 2017 - Nov. 2018Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC)
Cartago, Costa Rica- Taught undergraduate computer science courses on Operating Systems and Computer Architecture.
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Early Mobile Development & Research
Aug. 2011 - June 2015GoTouch / Parso / TEC Research
Cartago, Costa Rica- Developed native mobile client applications for local tracking systems and research groups.
- Designed core visual interfaces and web service connections for early Android initiatives.
Websites & Platforms Built
A selection of live and production-grade software applications I built or co-founded.
Let's Connect
Looking to build low-latency playback pipelines, audio/video decoders, or a solid Rails backend? Reach out.