Teresa Daniela Mendoza

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Engineering Manager at Basil Care | ex-Accenture

Basil Care
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
14+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
Hiring
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Overview

Engineering Manager at Basil Care, focused on embedded systems. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 6. Led the migration of 75 services to hardware bring-up. Collector of fountain pens.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
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Skills
Cembedded LinuxRTOShardware bring-upARM Cortex-MBluetooth LE
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Hiring a senior backend engineer for the firmware team - New York

Role
Senior backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$184k-$241k + equity
Team
Firmware, 12 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with embedded Linux Production experience with C Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $193k-$305k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Basil Care · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 570ms to 157ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 39% in two quarters.
    • Grew the firmware team from 4 to 23 engineers.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Sep 2025
    Accenture · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 751ms to 116ms.
    • Moved 62% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
    Oracle · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 566ms to 70ms.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Jul 2020
    Adobe · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Moved 67% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Apr 2013 - Oct 2016
    Ford · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 43% in two quarters.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 838ms to 141ms.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Mathematics
    2012 - 2014
  2. Princeton University
    AB, Mathematics
    2007 - 2011

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