Carmen Veronica Rojas

Overview

I lead growth engineering at Pebble HQ in Minneapolis. Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Mastercard and Snap. Most at home with React and PostgreSQL. I write short fiction no one reads.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. CTO

   Feb 2023 - Present
   Pebble HQ · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Moved 81% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Led the migration of 25 services to Node.js.
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 45% in two quarters.
2. Engineering Manager

   May 2021 - Feb 2023
   Mastercard · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 90 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 43% in two quarters.
3. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Nov 2019 - May 2021
   Snap · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 38% in two quarters.
   • Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Full-Stack Engineer

   Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
   eBay · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Moved 86% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
   Instacart · 2 yr · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Grew the growth team from 3 to 20 engineers.

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Education

1. Rhode Island School of Design

   BFA, Information Technology
   2007 - 2011