Joseph Rivera

Senior Software Engineer

Los Gatos, California, United States8 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Experienced in full stack development and IoT.
  • Proficient in React and GraphQL for modern web applications.
  • Strong background in UX design and performance optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Software Engineer with a focus on modern web applications and UX design.

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Skills

Core Skills

ReactGraphqlMongodb

Other Skills

AJAXAWSAdobe PhotoshopAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)BootstrapCC++CSS FlexboxCSS GridCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Data AnalysisData StructuresDockerDocker Products

About

I'm a passionate software engineer with experience in full stack development and IoT. For the last year, I've been growing professionally at Meta by taking on new technical challenges and working in a fast-paced development environment. I love learning new programing languages and working closely with the Design team to deliver wonderful and performant UX for our customers. Front End: JavaScript, React (Hooks/Redux/Relay), Angular, JQuery, Bootstrap Backend: Hack(PHP), GraphQL, Ent Framework, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Docker, PeerJS, SocketIO Databases: MongoDB, MySQL Testing/Deployment: CircleCI, Enzyme, Jest, Mocha, Chai, K6, Loader.io, AWS, Git Please reach out to me for a coffee chat on LinkedIn or by email at josephrivera5000@gmail.com.

Experience

8 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Uber

2 roles

Senior Software Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Software Engineer II

Dec 2022Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Design and develop UI/UX for the PACE team

Meta

Software Engineer

Nov 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Developed internal privacy and compliance tools for the Controls Enterprise Engineering team.
  • Paired with Design to create user-friendly web pages, forms and flows in React (Hooks/Redux/Relay).
  • Leveraged GraphQL and Relay to ensure backend querying and mutating was performed efficiently.
  • Used Hack (PHP) and Ent framework to define data tables, CRUD methods, and dependencies.
  • Consistently overperformed on sprints by completing given tasks early, then taking on additional tasks.
ReactGraphQLHack(PHP)Ent FrameworkMongoDB

Software engineering applications

4 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2021Jul 2021 · 1 mo

  • The Perfect Set - A planning and routing application for musicians (React-Calendar, Figma, Google Maps, Yelp)
  • Designed UX in Figma and enabled two global themes, “Rocker” and “Raver”, using React Context
  • Implemented search functionality using the Yelp API and displayed results in a Bootstrap accordion.
  • Embedded a React-Calendar date picker which allowed the user to book events on a specific date.
ReactFigmaGoogle MapsYelp APIBootstrap

Software Engineer

Jun 2021Jun 2021 · 0 mo

  • Peer Adventure - A multiplayer choose your own adventure game (PeerJS, SocketIO, MongoDB, React, Bootstrap)
  • Enabled multiplayer functionality using PeerJS and SocketIO to stream both video and audio.
  • Created dynamically generated game rooms using UUIDv4 and user IDs using PeerJS.
  • Leveraged React-Bootstrap library to expedite component building and layout of game cards.
PeerJSSocketIOMongoDBReactBootstrap

Software Engineer

May 2021May 2021 · 0 mo

  • Clotho - An optimized backend API and database microservice (MongoDB, AWS, Nginx, Docker)
  • Performed ETL to seed MongoDB with 10 million records and optimized queries to take < 4 ms.
  • Deployed dockerized microservice, load balanced with Nginx, to achieve >1000 RPS on AWS EC2 micro.
  • Used advanced sharding and replica set techniques with MongoDB to create database redundancy,
  • automatic failover, and support the same load with ½ the required instances.
MongoDBAWSNginxDocker

Software Engineer

Apr 2021May 2021 · 1 mo

  • Threads - An online clothing store application with a modern design and responsive UX (React / Express)
  • Designed an image carousel for related products and outfits using React conditional rendering.
  • Implemented the useMemo React Hook and Chrome local storage to enable front end caching.
  • Setup Express backend with compression middleware to reduce latency of read operations by 35%.
ReactExpress

Samsara, inc

3 roles

Quality Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2019Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Managed Quality Engineers and maintained high quality releases for web, mobile, and firmware.
  • Oversaw our team’s test automation function, which reduced testing time for mobile builds from 1 week to 1 day and for firmware builds from 2 weeks to 3 days.

Quality Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2018Jan 2019 · 6 mos

  • Created first quality engineering function, including first test suite, and testing processes.
  • Defined mobile app release process, which reduced release cadence from every 3 months to 2 weeks

Support Engineer

Feb 2018Jun 2018 · 4 mos

  • Used Zendesk to triage, solve, and de-escalate IoT customer issues over email and phone.
  • Promoted and requested to build out the first Quality Engineering function at the company.

Integrate inc.

Account Success Manager

Aug 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr · Hopkinton, MA

  • Utilized Integrate’s SaaS platform to build and maintain B2B marketing campaigns
  • Provided technical support for B2B clients and data marketplace media partners
  • Developed and delivered campaign and analytics reporting using Excel and PowerPoint
  • Setup and tested marketing automation APIs for new clients
  • Became proficient in B2B marketing automation software such as Salesforce and Marketo

Demiurge studios / sega games co., ltd

Developer Support

Aug 2015Mar 2016 · 7 mos · Cambridge, MA

  • Supported development and shipping of Marvel Puzzle Quest and Puzzle and Glory titles
  • Gave critical feedback and new characters and system balancing
  • Generated daily test plans for new content using Excel and Google Docs
  • Tracked server changelogs with Perforce
  • Wrote and tracked bug reports using JIRA
  • Performed launch verification test for the release of new builds
  • Attended weekly design meetings and pitched new ideas for content and improvements
  • Winner of:
  • Editor's Choice Award- IGN Entertainment
  • Bronze Award- Pocket Gamer

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts - BA

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Hack Reactor

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive

Jan 2021Jan 2021

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