Carmen Teresa Molina

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CTO at Northwind Cloud | ex-Nike

Northwind Cloud
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English
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Overview

Based in New York. I lead payments infrastructure at Northwind Cloud. Took payment success rates from 91.1% to 96.9%. Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 37 a week to 3. Before that: Nike and Salesforce.

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Skills
PCI DSSJavaidempotencygRPC
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5 security engineer roles open on the payments platform team in New York

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$124k-$178k
Team
Payments platform, 14 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with PCI DSS Production experience with gRPC Clear written communication
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $174k-$227k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Northwind Cloud · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Wrote the Java service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Led the migration of 35 services to idempotency.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
    Nike · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Backed 43 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
    Salesforce · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped 6 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 29% in two quarters.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
    Shopify · 3 yr · Contract · New York, NY
    • Shipped 23 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
    Ford · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Wrote the gRPC service that now handles 58 million requests a day.
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.

Projects

Write-up: payments infrastructure in practice
2023

A long-form guide to payments infrastructure for people starting out.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Computer Science
    2003 - 2007

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