Paula Daniela Ramirez

Overview

I work on API platforms at Quayside Software in San Francisco. Brought on-call pages for public API down from 23 a week to 4. Grew the public API team from 5 to 35 engineers. Before that: DoorDash and Starbucks. Most at home with Redis and Django.

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Experience

1. Senior Backend Engineer

   Oct 2023 - Present
   Quayside Software · 3 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Grew the public API team from 4 to 27 engineers.
   • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 23% in two quarters.
   • Moved 69% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Backend Engineer

   May 2022 - Oct 2023
   DoorDash · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shipped 20 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
   • Wrote the rate limiting service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
3. Backend Engineer

   Oct 2020 - May 2022
   Starbucks · 1 yr 7 mo · Contract · San Francisco, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 731ms to 120ms.
4. Backend Engineer

   Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
   Mastercard · 3 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 316ms to 113ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 6.

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Education

1. Harvard Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2017 - 2019
2. University of Wisconsin–Madison

   BS, Mathematics
   2012 - 2016