Victoria Bianca Aguilar

Overview

Director of Engineering at Ashford Financial, focused on embedded systems. Grew the firmware team from 5 to 27 engineers. Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 31% in two quarters. Before that: Airbnb and HP. Most at home with Bluetooth LE and RTOS. Chess on lunch breaks.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2022 - Present
   Ashford Financial · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Grew the firmware team from 4 to 37 engineers.
   • Moved 79% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Wrote the hardware bring-up service that now handles 34 million requests a day.
2. Senior Embedded Engineer

   May 2019 - Jul 2022
   Airbnb · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 4.
3. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Nov 2016 - May 2019
   HP · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 38% in two quarters.
4. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Apr 2015 - Nov 2016
   Wayfair · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Embedded Engineer

   Dec 2012 - Apr 2015
   MongoDB · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
   • Moved 77% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. University of Wisconsin–Madison

   BS, Computer Engineering
   2008 - 2012