Ian Rodriguez

Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in backend development (Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Proven track record of architecting scalable cloud infrastructures (AWS ECS/EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform), optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and developing high-performance applications for Tier-1 global clients including Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.

Sr. Software Engineer at Vinosmith (2023-09 – 2026-01)

• Partnered with the CTO to lead cloud infrastructure migration, successfully migrating monolithic services from legacy AWS EC2 instances to AWS ECS clusters.
• Achieved a 20% reduction in monthly infrastructure costs by implementing Terraform IaC and deploying auto-scaling AWS ECS container clusters.
• Engineered a scalable reporting tool and RESTful APIs from scratch using Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq background queues, and Vue.js with HTML/CSS for real-time sales analytics.

Sr. Software Engineer at Valimail (2022-10 – 2023-09)

• Contributed to the development and deployment of the Enforce product version on upgraded infrastructure, reinforcing TLS/HTTPS encryption, IP validation, and DMARC security.
• Implemented secure OAuth 2.0 authentication flows and achieved a 12% increase in system stability and test coverage via legacy code refactors and robust CI/CD pipelines using Helm and GitHub Actions.
• Collaborated with the SRE team to build automated deployment pipelines on AWS EKS, improving observability and network ingress uptime.

Sr. Ruby / Elixir Engineer at Encora (2021-11 – 2022-10)

• Led back-end development (Ruby on Rails and Phoenix/Elixir) and RESTful API architecture for a nationwide political campaign platform.
• Engineered a dedicated Elixir request router to intelligently distribute high-volume IP traffic and API requests between legacy systems and microservices with OAuth security.
• Designed and deployed the system's infrastructure architecture using Kubernetes, Helm charts, and Amazon EKS.

Sr. Software Engineer at Dataplor (2020-11 – 2021-03)

• Engineered and launched highly reliable RESTful API data distribution endpoints with TLS/HTTPS encryption and IP filtering for Tier-1 clients including Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.
• Managed end-to-end data pipelines for exporting large-scale datasets to external corporate partners, crafting responsive interfaces with React.js and HTML/CSS.
• Refactored strategic legacy codebases to mitigate security vulnerabilities and optimize database query performance.

Sr. Software Engineer (Ruby) at Particle IoT (2021-03 – 2021-09)

• Developed core backend features and Sidekiq background worker pipelines for a Ruby application tracking factory-produced IoT chips with real-time status updates.
• Partnered with the SRE team to lead infrastructure migration from raw Kubernetes manifests to Terraform, improving IaC maintainability.