Hector Eduardo Vega

Overview

I've spent 19 years on mobile apps - first at Visa, now at Fidelity Investments. Took crash-free sessions from 96.5% to 99.9%. Before that: Goldman Sachs and Netflix. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

Replies on weekends

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Nov 2023 - Present
   Fidelity Investments · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Sit on 4 boards.
   • Led or co-led 6 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2021 - Nov 2023
   Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 793ms to 50ms.
   • Wrote the Gradle service that now handles 85 million requests a day.
3. Senior Android Engineer

   May 2019 - Apr 2021
   Netflix · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 4.
   • Shipped 20 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
4. Android Engineer

   Feb 2018 - May 2019
   McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 3 mo · Contract · Austin, TX
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 39% in two quarters.
5. Senior Android Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Feb 2018
   Visa · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 3.
   • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.

No references yet.

Education

1. University of Florida

   BS, Mathematics
   2003 - 2007