Jorge García

Senior Staff Engineer

Systems Design · Applied AI Architecture

Summary

Senior Staff Engineer with 12+ years designing and scaling resilient, large-scale platforms across distributed systems and production-grade AI-driven systems. Proven track record delivering zero-downtime platform migrations, engineering 8× throughput improvements, and operating high-scale systems across IoT and enterprise platforms, grounded in a pragmatic systems engineering approach.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Platform Engineering

GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Redis

Backend & Systems Design

Node.js, Python, Go, Design Patterns, IoT Systems, Microservices

Frontend & Full-Stack Development

React, TypeScript, Next.js, State Management, API Design

AI & Distributed Systems

Multi-Agent Orchestration, RAG Pipelines, LLM Infrastructure, Event-Driven Systems, Micro-Frontends, Task Queues

Experience

Senior Staff Engineer

ZenBusiness
Sep 2023 Present
2 years 5 months
  • Shaped frontend direction by leading a zero-downtime migration from a legacy architecture to microfrontends, establishing new standards for scalability and maintainability.
  • Designed and implemented core fulfillment workflows in Go, including schema-driven validation and graph-based traversal utilities to ensure data integrity.
  • Led the development of an event-driven backend service integrating with external accountant partners, enabling scalable delivery of tax-related products.
  • Built and operated services integrating third-party APIs, implementing robust error handling, rate limiting, and security controls to manage external dependency failures at scale.
  • Contributed to company-wide architectural standards through reusable packages and shared service patterns adopted across multiple teams.
  • Supported enterprise API initiatives by designing secure, public-facing APIs that exposed internal capabilities while enforcing business constraints.

Senior Software Engineer

Ureeka
Sep 2021 Sep 2023
1 year 11 months
  • Designed and implemented scalable backend features using distributed system patterns, including eventual consistency and backward compatibility, to support platform evolution without breaking existing consumers.
  • Achieved an 8× throughput improvement in distributed task queues, increasing processing capacity from ~940 to ~7,500 tasks per minute per queue by addressing scheduling, execution, and contention bottlenecks.
  • Built robust third-party integrations with comprehensive error handling, rate limiting, and security controls to ensure reliability under partial failure conditions.
  • Implemented end-to-end observability using Cloud Trace, Cloud Logging, and Error Reporting, enabling faster incident detection through automated alerting and improved system visibility.

Tech Lead / Digital Solutions Manager

Sintec
Feb 2020 Sep 2021
1 year 7 months
  • Led and mentored a small team of software engineers, driving feature delivery while supporting professional growth and technical ownership.
  • Translated business requirements into technical roadmaps, architectural decisions, and delivery plans across concurrent client projects.
  • Provided architectural guidance and technical oversight across multiple client solutions, ensuring consistency, security, and maintainability.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by migrating workloads from dedicated servers to serverless platforms (Cloud Functions, Cloud Run).
  • Automated Node.js CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, improving deployment reliability and reducing manual release overhead.
  • Established shared GitHub standards and code conventions adopted across teams to improve consistency and collaboration.
  • Built and managed partnerships with external development providers, expanding delivery capacity while maintaining quality and delivery commitments.

Full-stack Engineer / Consultant

Sintec
Feb 2019 Feb 2020
1 year
  • Built a real-time IoT platform tracking 150+ beacon devices using AWS Kinesis and MongoDB, enabling live analytics dashboards for distribution centers.
  • Introduced serverless and modern web technologies (Node.js, Firebase) that became foundational standards for subsequent projects.

Technical Highlights

Deal Intelligence Platform

AI Reasoning & Strategic Intelligence

A cognitive engine that synthesizes strategic intelligence from complex, unstructured data. It orchestrates specialist agents for market research, competitor analysis, and institutional knowledge retrieval, using an advanced RAG architecture with multimodal inputs (sales calls, financial visuals)..

Tech: Python, LangChain, LLMs, GraphRAG, Multi-Modal AI

ConectaPelu2 - Animal Welfare Ecosystem

Full-Stack Product Architecture

Digital ecosystem connecting animal shelters and adopters through automated workflows. Currently architected as a robust monolith supporting pet management, secure authentication, and institutional memory tracking. The roadmap includes integrated micro-donations, social media automation, and a multi-platform mobile presence..

Tech: Next.js 15, Drizzle ORM, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes

Detailed case studies, full professional history, and technical references available at jorgemgr.com