Wendy Helen Yamamoto

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Senior Backend Engineer at Ford · API platforms · Redis, rate limiting

Ford
Los Angeles, CA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
University of Michigan
English
Open to work
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Overview

Senior Backend Engineer at Ford, focused on API platforms. Grew the public API team from 3 to 24 engineers. Before that: ServiceNow and Cisco. Most at home with REST and Django.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in API platforms
  • Working sessions on OpenAPI
  • Second opinions on Django decisions
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
PostgreSQLRedisOpenAPIPythonDjangoRESTrate limiting
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Backend Engineer in marketplaces, Los Angeles or hybrid

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Logistics, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the CA
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns public API end to end.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

8 years in API platforms. Strongest at Python and REST. Available from next month.

Los Angeles, CAdjangorate limitingopenapi
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Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Ford · 11 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 3.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 40 a week to 4.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2024 - Nov 2025
    ServiceNow · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Shipped 7 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2024
    Cisco · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 27 a week to 3.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
    IBM · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 482ms to 103ms.

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Education

  1. University of Michigan
    BSE, Mathematics
    2014 - 2018

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