• Expertise in crafting and growing a 1.0 product or existing one, taking it through maturation and market adoption; able to scale to 100+ million daily active users; multiple product lines including mobile, cloud, and desktop. • Experience running multiple product development streams using remote teams. • Team builder of successful engineers (up to 250+) through defining the correct recruiting process, attracting talent, and developing and mentoring an extremely efficient staff. • Agile team leader using hands-on startup techniques for projects. • Hands-on executive leadership with A/B series startup global experience, building B2C/B2B/SaaS products and services from the ground up in a fast-paced environment where KPIs/metrics are essential. • Strong understanding of the modern computing stack and its evolution, hands-on experience building scalable products such as APIs, mobile apps, SaaS, Machine Learning (ML), Security, Networking, Virtualization, Web Services, and Operating Systems. • Deep understanding of APIs, microservices, serverless, mobile apps, data pipelines, SaaS services, artificial intelligence items including machine learning (ML) and NLP, security, and financial apps using a modern tech stack including LAMP, React, Swift, Typescript, Node.js, C#, C/C++, and PHP using Elasticsearch/Redis/SQL repositories with queue management tools such as SQS, RabbitMQ, and EventBridge. CI/CD global deployments workflows over AWS, GCP, and Azure with Kubernetes/Docker.
Education Certified Innovation Mentor Program 2013-2015 • University of Notre Dame Business School, South Bend, IN
Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science 1998
European Union (Multi-Country Ph.D. Program) • University of Navarre, Spain • National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France • University of Loughborough, UK • Graduated with "European Distinction”
Professional Experience RevolutionParts, Livermore, CA Sep 2024-Present Sr. Staff Software Engineer RevolutionParts (www.revolutionparts.com) helps automotive dealers maximize online OEM parts sales with powerful and user-friendly eCommerce solutions.
ShoppingGives, San Francisco, CA Oct 2022-Aug 2024
Sr. Lead Software Engineer / CTO ShoppingGives is an all-in-one impact strategy allowing businesses to offer customers a seamless and native giving experience during their shopping journey. ShoppingGives is a social impact platform that aligns Businesses with Non-Profit organizations and consumers values.
• Revamped the Product roadmap with newly released features, reorganizing the Engineering team (increasing its velocity from over 30 points per Sprint to over 100, reducing talent investment by 30%). • Led a significant upgrade of a B2B API integration platform and roadmap and created integration widgets for partners. The tech stack includes React, NodeJS, TypeScript, C#, and Elasticsearch/Redis/SQL/EventBridge on AWS. CI/CD based on Docker/Git Actions/AWS CloudFormation. • Implemented coding best practices and regression testing techniques, reducing bugs by over 70%. • Led the design of the Charities Matching Recommendation Engine using AI techniques. Omar Aguirre, page 2 aguirreom@yahoo.com
Songclip, San Francisco, CA Jul 2018-Sep 2022
Head of Engineering The first Social Music API offering a systemized solution for integrating and monetizing music across social and digital platforms, making music part of content creation and sharing. Songclip introduced a new music format for messaging, social posts, quick communication, creation, and expression. In partnership with the music industry, Songclip operates the foremost searchable worldwide database of 5-30 second meta-tagged popular music clips, used to power social music features and filters for various apps and services. The Songclip's API accounts for music rights clearances, usage reporting, and payments to music labels and publishers. • Designed and led the creation of an API platform used by third-party apps. The tech stack includes React, NodeJS, TypeScript, and Elasticsearch/Redis/SQL on AWS. CI/CD based on Kubernetes/Helm/CodePipeline/EBS/Git/SQS. • Implemented solution with machine learning (ML) techniques to predict behavior in the recommendation engine. • Author of 2 patents using innovative searching and matching techniques. • Led the development of Mobile use-case apps (iOS and Android) using the Songclip API.
UtilityScore, Oakland, CA Oct 2015-Jun 2018
Sr. Solutions Architect / CTO A Y-Combinator startup redefining how we value energy and water, helping consumers lower utilities and increase home value. UtilityScore API and software tools help lenders, real estate, and home services companies generate high-quality leads. UtilityScore launched the first-ever market-driven home asset score based on utilities and has secured an exclusive partnership agreement with Zillow Group (Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, RealEstate, and Streeteasy), which has 140 million monthly active users. • Designed and led the development of Pando SMTP server with Node.js using Redis and MySQL as RDBMS. Machine Learning (ML) techniques are used to predict user behavior and classify requests. • Designed and led the development of the UtilityScore Billing and Savings APIs that deliver electric and gas water usage bills along with 22 potential utility savings projects for all 83M US single-family homes. Implemented using LAMP, PHP, ReactJS, and Node.js. • Design and development of the UtilityScore tools comprising landing pages, and widgets to improve customer acquisition processes. • Operations using AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, CodeDeploy, and SQS) and Azure scaling up to 220 instances for calculation and API processing. Bash scripting for deployment and monitoring.
Kinnevo, San Jose, CA 2012-2015
Director of Engineering / Sr. Solutions Architect / Cofounder
A multinational business created to facilitate new ventures with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. • Identified problems/needs that solved with technology. • Designed products and services (solutions architect). • Defined MVP (Minimum Viable Product); assess market validation and feedback for the next MVP. • Designed the roadmap for scaling the solutions. • Built solutions managing local and remote engineering teams.
Optenet (acquired by Allot Communications), USA/France/Spain/Mexico 2004-2012
VP of Engineering / Managing Director (2008-2012) Chief Information Officer (2007-2008) Engineering Director (2006-2007) Cofounder (2004)
A renowned global provider of SaaS - security software technology for telecom operators. Partners included Verizon, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Telmex, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, O2, Portugal Telecom, ETB, Omar Aguirre, page 2 aguirreom@yahoo.com
and global companies such as Nokia Siemens Network, Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent, Computerlinks, Crossbeam, Supermicro, AON Risk Services, and BBVA Bank. • Collaborated on the company's positioning in more than 100 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) worldwide, representing 100+ million daily active users. • Directed the SaaS Engineering team responsible for in-the-cloud services with 100+ million daily active users. • Envisioned, designed, and led the development of SaaS solutions for content filtering, antispam, antimalware integration, firewall, and IDS/IPS with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) using technologies/tools/languages such as C/C++, Python, PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, Java, and MySQL. • Led the Engineering area expansion from 20 to 150+ global staff; provided leadership across all development process areas; designed system architecture, functional and technical design, standards development, and unit and regression testing. • Spearheaded the creation and deployment of the global data center infrastructure for cloud-based services. • Conceptualized, developed, and implemented a web-based ERP solution utilizing open-source technologies, in-house developers, and third-party software.
