Resume

Senior Backend Engineer & Backend Community AI Champion

Cognizant Netcentric — 2023 – Present

• Built and maintain an internal AI tooling marketplace for backend engineers as primary author, and design/deliver the training that drives its adoption org-wide.
• Sole senior contributor on a large-scale AEM platform: PIM integration, product/parts filtering, a Jackrabbit Oak search-index migration, dispatcher/release engineering, and localization.
• Contributed high-impact fixes to a shared platform-core library used across a multi-brand estate — content-activation workflows, thread-safety fixes in resource-resolver handling, and dispatcher cache/HTTP client refactoring.
• Independently authored a JUnit 5 testing module for validating Oak Lucene index definitions, and designed/built Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) services and serverless APIs from the ground up.

Technical Co-Founder

Hyggs — 2021 – 2023

• Owned all technical decisions for a services marketplace connecting clients and suppliers, taking the product from prototype to production (C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, PostgreSQL/SQL Server, Azure and GCP).
• Built the core request-management app end to end — onboarding, editing, and address-management flows — plus admin/back-office tooling and an operations dashboard.
• Built a KYC/compliance intake pipeline processing structured submissions against onboarding requirements.
• Hired and led an outsourced team of 9 engineers who rebuilt the platform in PHP, integrating Stripe, Firebase, and GCP.

AEM Platform Engineer

Global consumer goods brand platforms — 2018 – 2021

• Built and maintained shared AEM components and pattern libraries used across a dozen+ brand and market sites (Java, JCR, Apache Sling, OSGi).
• Developed cart/checkout and promotional components for two direct-to-consumer storefronts, sustained over about a year.
• Fixed authentication and webhook logging issues on a CRM platform's third-party identity integration.
• Maintained AEM server environments — dependency versions, memory tuning, ACS Commons — across several brand server repositories.

Máster Universitario en Tecnologías de la Computación Aplicadas al Sector Financiero

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid — 2017 – 2018

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Universidad Francisco Marroquín — 2016 – 2017

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala — 2011 – 2014