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Carlos Reyes

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Stripe

Summary

Experience

Senior Staff Software EngineerStripe
San Francisco, CAMar 2020Present
  • Architected and led the development of a new payment processing microservice in Java 17 and Spring Boot, reducing latency by 25% and increasing transaction throughput by 30% for over $10B in monthly payments.
  • Optimized critical database queries and introduced caching strategies using Redis, improving API response times by an average of 150ms across high-volume endpoints.
Senior Software EngineerNetflix
Los Gatos, CAJun 2016Mar 2020
  • Designed and developed scalable backend services for content delivery using Java 11, Spring Cloud, and AWS, handling over 100M daily active users.
  • Reduced operational costs by 20% through refactoring legacy monolith applications into a more efficient microservices architecture.
Software EngineerOracle
Redwood Shores, CAJun 2013May 2016
  • Developed and maintained core components of Oracle's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system using Java EE and WebLogic.
  • Improved system performance by 15% through code optimization and database tuning on high-traffic modules.
  • Collaborated with QA engineers to implement comprehensive test suites, decreasing reported bugs by 20% post-release.

Projects

Education

Stanford UniversityMaster of Science in Computer Science
Stanford, CASep 2011May 2013
  • Thesis: "Distributed Transaction Management in Microservices Architectures"
  • Awarded University Fellowship for outstanding academic achievement
University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Berkeley, CASep 2007May 2011
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude, GPA: 3.9/4.0
  • Received Dean's List honors for all semesters
  • Led capstone project for a real-time data analytics dashboard

Skills

Programming Languages
Java (SE 8-17)PythonSQLJavaScriptGroovy
Frameworks & Libraries
Spring BootSpring CloudHibernateJPAMicronautNetflix OSS
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS)DockerKubernetesJenkinsGitMavenGradle
Databases & Caching
PostgreSQLMySQLOracle DBMongoDBRedisKafkaRabbitMQ
Tools & Methodologies
MicroservicesRESTful APIsAgile/ScrumJunitMockitoIntelliJ IDEAJiraConfluence