Sofia Lucia Vargas

Overview

Currently at Fable Foods, where I lead payments infrastructure with a team of 47. Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 21% in two quarters. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Feb 2023 - Present
   Fable Foods · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Took payment success rates from 93.4% to 98.1%.
2. Senior Backend Engineer

   Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
   Google · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 18 engineers.
   • Moved 68% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Senior Backend Engineer

   Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
   Citi · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 20% in two quarters.
4. Backend Engineer

   Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
   Shopify · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Moved 78% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 59 million requests a day.
5. Backend Engineer

   Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
   DoorDash · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 9 million transactions a day.

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Education

1. Cornell University

   BS, Computer Science
   1996 - 2000