Jose Antonio Aguilar

Overview

Based in Salt Lake City. I lead search and ranking at Trellis Bio. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 5. Brought on-call pages for search down from 12 a week to 3. Board member at a local non-profit.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Nov 2023 - Present
   Trellis Bio · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 31% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the learning to rank service that now handles 56 million requests a day.
   • Grew the search team from 4 to 13 engineers.
2. Engineering Manager

   May 2021 - Nov 2023
   Citi · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 20 a week to 3.
3. Software Engineer

   Feb 2018 - May 2021
   Wells Fargo · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 657ms to 142ms.
4. Software Engineer

   Jun 2014 - Nov 2017
   Intuit · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
   • Shipped 21 launches on the search team without a rollback.
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 33 a week to 1.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2012 - Jun 2014
   eBay · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 20 a week to 4.
   • Wrote the Lucene service that now handles 18 million requests a day.

Projects

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Education

1. Rhode Island School of Design

   BFA, Electronics and Communication
   2007 - 2011