Pedro Figueroa

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Staff Backend Engineer at FEMSA · API platforms · Redis, rate limiting

FEMSA
Buenos Aires, Argentina · ART (UTC-3)
11+ years experience
IESE
English, Spanish, Mandarin
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Overview

11 years in software engineering, the last 3 at FEMSA, where I work on the public API team. Moved 79% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Brought on-call pages for public API down from 21 a week to 2. Before that: Deloitte and Falabella. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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OpenAPIrate limitingRedisAndroid performance
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Office hours for career switchers into engineering: API platforms and Android performance

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API platforms, rate limiting, OpenAPI
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11 years of API platforms. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Buenos Aires, Argentina · remote OKopenapirate limitingandroid performance
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Experience

  1. Staff Backend Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Present
    FEMSA · 3 yr · Contract · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Grew the public API team from 3 to 28 engineers.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 42% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Oct 2023
    Deloitte · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 6.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
    Falabella · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Shipped 25 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the Android performance service that now handles 30 million requests a day.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Aug 2016 - Jun 2019
    Mercado Libre · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Moved 73% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
    Cemex · 8 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Shipped 19 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 787ms to 94ms.

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Education

  1. IESE
    MBA, Business Administration
    2017 - 2019
  2. ITAM
    Licenciatura, Computer Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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