David Salgado

Software Engineer at Hifi Finance
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Experience

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • Apr 2023 - Present
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
    • Web3 Engineer
      • Nov 2020 - Jul 2022

      Built and maintain the front end for our fixed interest lending/borrowing product. Technology used: React, Material UI, ethers-js, hooks, react-query, TheGraph, multicall, Infura, dsProxy I have read, interpreted, and reviewed the smart contract code in our protocol. I work very closely with other smart contract engineers and have helped uncover bugs and guide direction. I've also written some of our smart contract code using safest and best practices such as the… Show more Built and maintain the front end for our fixed interest lending/borrowing product. Technology used: React, Material UI, ethers-js, hooks, react-query, TheGraph, multicall, Infura, dsProxy I have read, interpreted, and reviewed the smart contract code in our protocol. I work very closely with other smart contract engineers and have helped uncover bugs and guide direction. I've also written some of our smart contract code using safest and best practices such as the checks-effects-interactions pattern. Technology used: Solidity, hardhat, merkleproofs, ipfs Show less

    • Egypt
    • Leasing Non-residential Real Estate
    • Lead Growth Engineer
      • Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

      My job is to analyze, research, and implement solutions to grow and retain the Wikibuy user base. I lead and determine the technical efforts that support building and improving funnels that acquire the most valuable customers. My priorities are guided by the formula described as 1) scaling our acquisition funnels and 2) improving our ROI. We run primarily on a React/NodeJS stack and use a variety of data solutions. * Develop ad tech that enables our Creative team to quickly launch ads… Show more My job is to analyze, research, and implement solutions to grow and retain the Wikibuy user base. I lead and determine the technical efforts that support building and improving funnels that acquire the most valuable customers. My priorities are guided by the formula described as 1) scaling our acquisition funnels and 2) improving our ROI. We run primarily on a React/NodeJS stack and use a variety of data solutions. * Develop ad tech that enables our Creative team to quickly launch ads followed by an automated system that optimizes bids/budgets on launched ads. * Launch end-to-end landing page tests involving: quantifying potential lift, gathering competitive and other insights, implementation + instrumentation, analyzing results (SQL), and iterating... * Instrumented conversion and other upper-funnel events for six ad networks on our website and web extension. * Built a daily job that gathers spend and performance data for six ad networks. * Heading technical efforts for our SEO strategy * Assign tasks to other members of the team providing guidance and code reviews.

    • Master Engineer (Growth Engineer)
      • Feb 2019 - Jan 2020

      Awarded "Exceptional" (highest possible rating) job performance rating for 2019.

    • Accounting
    • Senior Software Engineer
      • Jan 2015 - Jan 2019

      Austin, Texas Area Front-end lead for Paid initiative (one of the most important initiatives for the company at time of writing) ● Meetings with product leads, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define the project and determine implementation ● Working inside many repos to implement impactful, iterative solutions Manager of the 2018 Summer Engineering Internship Program ● Organized and executed the interview process for candidates ● Coordinated with team leads at Spredfast to find… Show more Front-end lead for Paid initiative (one of the most important initiatives for the company at time of writing) ● Meetings with product leads, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define the project and determine implementation ● Working inside many repos to implement impactful, iterative solutions Manager of the 2018 Summer Engineering Internship Program ● Organized and executed the interview process for candidates ● Coordinated with team leads at Spredfast to find appropriate teams for interns ● Regular 1-on-1 meetings with interns ● Group meetings with interns to discuss communication and personal development skills Front-end engineer lead for the Publishing product ● Led the effort to build and maintain the front-end stack for this product ● Mentored and onboarded two colleagues, one of which was promoted to senior dev recently ● Built a common sharable repository for all front-end dev at Spredfast using Lerna. This repo is widely used throughout the organization Manager of the 2017 Summer Engineering Internship Program Front-end engineer for one of Spredfast's flagship products, Intelligence. ● Built Backbone/jQuery based panels and modals. ● Introduced a unidirectional data flow architecture to simplify and improve the expansion of the code base. ● Abstracted generic design patterns and modules into a common library for reuse by other teams. Lead front-end engineer for a project (unnamed) that dynamically generates forms to garner use-provided data which is then processed by a dynamic report generator which pumps out graphical visualizations. ● Implemented an elegant and simple dynamic form generator which employs a unidirectional data flow pattern to support a "central source of truth". ● Implemented a compelling ReactJS + d3 solution for building multi-series Cartesian charts. React dev environment employs Webpack with a hot-loader and babel transpiler. Show less

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Advisory Software Engineer: Technical Lead/Architect
      • Jul 2013 - Dec 2014

      Lead engineer for a common Web 2.0 library shared across multiple IBM Storage product GUI's including the highly acclaimed, Storwize V7000 system. ● Conduct communication between Management, Design, and Development -- making recommendations on allocation of resources, team structuring, and realistic implementation of "vision" designs. ● Mentoring and overseeing dev work done by my team and other teams. Regularly serve as a technical consultant for the teams served by my team's… Show more Lead engineer for a common Web 2.0 library shared across multiple IBM Storage product GUI's including the highly acclaimed, Storwize V7000 system. ● Conduct communication between Management, Design, and Development -- making recommendations on allocation of resources, team structuring, and realistic implementation of "vision" designs. ● Mentoring and overseeing dev work done by my team and other teams. Regularly serve as a technical consultant for the teams served by my team's common library. ● Hold regular brown-bags and tech talks across multiple departments involved in building scalable, rich web apps. ● Leading the architectural design and development of custom performance charts data visualization solution. This package features a highly polished interface with extensively rich features: zoom, pan, hover tooltips, split chart comparison, data compression/aggregation, asynchronous data retrieval, and much more. Built with a highly flexible, modular design with the exploiters (product teams) in mind. Exploiters are finding great ease in integrating this solution into their products while also seamlessly applying custom, product-specific behaviors. ● Leading the development of a rewrite of an comprehensive grid widget with multitude of rich features: filtering, sorting, asynchronous data retrieval, context menus, selection, and much more. ● Recognized as a top-performer by IBM (2013) ● Recognized as a top-performer by IBM (2014)

    • Staff Software Engineer
      • Oct 2009 - Jun 2013

      Front-end engineer for a common library underpinning a number of storage GUI products (exploiters) and a consultant for said products. ● Wrote a whole host of custom software solutions and widgets using dojo/dijit/dojox used by over 10 products. ● Conducted regular code review and education sessions for a number of exploiters. ● Wrote a complex back-end RAID algorithm for the Storwize V7000 and SVC products using Java/Servlet technology. ● Introduced the practice of… Show more Front-end engineer for a common library underpinning a number of storage GUI products (exploiters) and a consultant for said products. ● Wrote a whole host of custom software solutions and widgets using dojo/dijit/dojox used by over 10 products. ● Conducted regular code review and education sessions for a number of exploiters. ● Wrote a complex back-end RAID algorithm for the Storwize V7000 and SVC products using Java/Servlet technology. ● Introduced the practice of educating and idea-sharing by regularly posting videos and maintaining a comprehensive wiki available to a number departments involved in building web apps. ● Recognized as a top-performer by IBM (2011 and 2012) ● Attended the IBM Storage User Summit (UK) in 2012 to obtain feedback from real customers regarding our GUI's. ● Traveled to China (Shanghai) in 2012 to help the DS8000 storage GUI team implement the most complex front-end component of their first release. ● Received "Outstanding Technical Achievement Award" in 2011 for my contributions to the Storwize V7000 storage product GUI. ● Traveled to China (Shanghai and Beijing) in 2011 to educate developers on best coding practices for single-page web GUI's. ● Traveled to Romania in 2010 to help ensure delivery of the SoNAS and IFS storage products GUI's and to introduce quality assurance practices (code reviews, etc.).

    • Design Services
    • Software Engineer
      • Jun 2004 - Sep 2009

      Lead the design and development of the single-page, AJAX-based RIA collaboration tool, OpenTeams: designed and implemented the MySQL database, implemented the dojo-based front-end, contributed to much of PHP backend code, contributed to the UX design. Lead developer for numerous database-driven custom software solutions; built front-facing websites with administrative portals: helped to design and theme UX, designed/normalized databases, implemented front-end and back-end code, PHP… Show more Lead the design and development of the single-page, AJAX-based RIA collaboration tool, OpenTeams: designed and implemented the MySQL database, implemented the dojo-based front-end, contributed to much of PHP backend code, contributed to the UX design. Lead developer for numerous database-driven custom software solutions; built front-facing websites with administrative portals: helped to design and theme UX, designed/normalized databases, implemented front-end and back-end code, PHP, Drupal, Coldfusion, JavaScript, MySQL, MSSQL, TSQL. Designed and developed a Java-based mobile solution for Service Corporation International; an application that dispatched information to phones from a call dispatch center: multi-threaded Java, Servlets, PHP, MSSQL. Managed development, designed the database and implemented code for a database-driven financial transparency web application for the City of Houston: C#, JavaScript, MSSQL, TSQL. Show less

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Support Engineer
      • May 2003 - Jun 2004

      Technical support representative for a collection of environmental monitoring devices. Responded to customers inquiries regarding: SMTP, POP, SNMP traps, OID registries, serial port pinouts, ARP commands.

Education

  • The University of Texas at Austin
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
  • Hatch Network
    Blockchain Engineering Specialization
    2018 - 2018

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