Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years of experience developing enterprise applications. Throughout my experience I have taken different roles, as a Developer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager and Product Owner. I also have extensive experience maintaining systems in production and resolving customer issues.

Cristina Hinojosa

Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years of experience developing enterprise applications. Throughout my experience I have taken different roles, as a Developer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager and Product Owner. I also have extensive experience maintaining systems in production and resolving customer issues.

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Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years of experience developing enterprise applications. Throughout my experience I have taken different roles, as a Developer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager and Product Owner. I also have extensive experience maintaining systems in production and resolving customer issues.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Product Engineer at Intercom
August 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026
Develop backend and frontend features in Ruby and React on AWS; lead data migration initiatives, including extracting 2M+ invoices from Zuora into Intercom systems, ensuring reliable sync via queues, webhooks, and APIs. Designed an end-to-end migration process with auditing; on-call support and production troubleshooting; collaborated with infra to optimize auto-scaling groups, instance sizing, and queue configurations; implemented feature flag strategies for controlled rollouts; led security and reliability improvements in the billing system; leveraged AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude Code) to accelerate architecture exploration and legacy code analysis, freeing time for strategic work.
Senior Software Engineer at Toast
January 1, 2021 - March 1, 2024
Acted as technical lead for a team of 6 engineers; migrated SalesForce data into internal microservices; integrated financial data across SalesForce, Stripe, and Work Pay; built new reporting infrastructure in AWS ECS/Fargate using Kotlin, migrating from a monolith to microservices; created performance test plans and developed a Gatling framework to simulate production traffic; conducted system-level performance and load testing, optimizing a Spark-based data layer for scalability; collaborated with second-line support to minimize production issues.
Scrum Master / Senior Engineer at Fenergo
October 1, 2016 - November 1, 2020
Technical lead of an 8-engineer team, facilitating agile ceremonies and acting as primary contact with leadership; managed people responsibilities including performance reviews, mentoring, and recruitment; designed new platform features in Java 8 with AWS, Spring Boot, and Gradle; supported production debugging and maintenance of builds and platform APIs.
Technical Leader at Fenergo
January 1, 2016 - October 1, 2016
Middleware integration with external data providers using Spring and Camel; designed data ingestion solutions and built testing frameworks.
Software Engineer at Sidero
February 1, 2013 - December 1, 2015
Backend development for telecom tools; acted as Product Owner and mentor.
Software Engineer at InfoSys
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2013
Software Engineer at TCS
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2012
Software Engineer at Intelligent Network Technologies
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2010

Education

B.Eng. in Software Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Saltillo, Mexico
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2008

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
January 11, 2030 - February 4, 2026
Certified Scrum Master
January 11, 2030 - February 4, 2026
Oracle Certified Java Programmer
January 11, 2030 - February 4, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications

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