Hugo Schwartz

Overview

I've spent 28 years on payments infrastructure - first at Nvidia, now at Atlas Energy. Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 39% in two quarters. Before that: DoorDash and McKinsey & Company. Most at home with gRPC and distributed systems. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Mar 2024 - Present
   Atlas Energy · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 334ms to 66ms.
   • Led the migration of 61 services to Java.
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 9 million transactions a day.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
   DoorDash · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Senior Backend Engineer

   Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
   McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Moved 65% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Backend Engineer

   Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
   Block · 2 yr 10 mo · Contract · New York, NY
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 26 a week to 3.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 505ms to 146ms.
5. Backend Engineer

   Oct 2013 - Mar 2017
   Nvidia · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 5.

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Education

1. Columbia University

   BA, Computer Science
   1994 - 1998