Monica Figueroa

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Senior Embedded Engineer at Ripple Commerce · hardware bring-up, C

Ripple Commerce
Medellín, Colombia · COT (UTC-5)
4+ years experience
Insper
English, Spanish
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Overview

Currently at Ripple Commerce, where I work on embedded systems. Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely. Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 32 a week to 4. Previously at McKinsey & Company. Most at home with ARM Cortex-M and hardware bring-up. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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Skills
hardware bring-upembedded LinuxBluetooth LECARM Cortex-M
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Looking for a technical co-founder for carbon accounting for nonprofits

The idea
Carbon accounting for nonprofits
Stage
Idea
I bring
13 years in embedded systems
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Medellín or remote

I bring 4 years of embedded systems (currently Ripple Commerce). Ideally you've run operations in LatAm. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

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Experience

  1. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Ripple Commerce · 2 yr 8 mo · Contract · Medellín, Colombia
    • Shipped 19 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the C service that now handles 3 million requests a day.
    • Moved 92% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
    McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Medellín, Colombia
    • Shipped 21 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Insper
    Economia, Computer Science
    2018 - 2022

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