About
Backend that holds up under load
I'm a Backend Software Engineer and Product Engineer with 5 years of experience designing, building, and scaling high-availability PHP systems for a multi-country healthcare SaaS. I specialize in turning vague business needs into appropriate technical solutions — and keeping them fast under real production load.
Most of my work has been on an EMR used across five countries by clinics processing up to 30,000 appointments a day. That scale taught me to care about the boring, load-bearing things: query plans, idempotency, retries, and tests you can trust.
What I actually do
- Feature development — from understanding the business need and defining the technical solution through implementation and testing.
- Performance optimization — profiling production databases (AWS Aurora), eliminating N+1 queries, designing composite indexes, and refactoring slow queries. Best-known win: a critical query from
30s~2s. - Testing strategy & quality engineering — migrated the backend suite to Pest and built an AI-assisted E2E methodology on Playwright, wired into CI.
- Integrations & payments — MercadoPago QR, multi-country electronic invoicing, and RIS/LIS bridges, with idempotency and signature verification treated as defaults.
I'm fluent in Spanish (native) and English (advanced — C1), and I'm open to remote roles in backend, platform, or product engineering.