I am a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years delivering production systems across healthcare and fintech-adjacent platforms. I specialize in end-to-end architecture, API design, and cloud-native delivery, driving measurable reliability and performance gains. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into maintainable services and user-facing experiences, owning delivery from design through rollout, monitoring, and iterative improvement. I value clear communication, automated testing, and security hardening to ensure resilient systems.

Ricardo Antonio Sapien

I am a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years delivering production systems across healthcare and fintech-adjacent platforms. I specialize in end-to-end architecture, API design, and cloud-native delivery, driving measurable reliability and performance gains. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into maintainable services and user-facing experiences, owning delivery from design through rollout, monitoring, and iterative improvement. I value clear communication, automated testing, and security hardening to ensure resilient systems.

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I am a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years delivering production systems across healthcare and fintech-adjacent platforms. I specialize in end-to-end architecture, API design, and cloud-native delivery, driving measurable reliability and performance gains.

I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into maintainable services and user-facing experiences, owning delivery from design through rollout, monitoring, and iterative improvement. I value clear communication, automated testing, and security hardening to ensure resilient systems.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at FelixHealthcare.AI
December 1, 2024 - Present
Designed and implemented an AI-assisted clinical workflow service that integrates model inference with provider-facing APIs, improving task throughput by 28% while keeping response times under 800ms via Cloud Run autoscaling and caching. Built secure patient data access patterns using OAuth 2.0 and JWT-based authorization, adding audit-friendly request tracing and reducing authorization-related incidents by 35% through consistent middleware and idempotent write flows. Developed a full-stack dashboard experience in React and TypeScript that visualizes care-plan status and operational metrics, cutting manual follow-ups by 22% through faster triage and clearer exception handling. Created event-driven integrations with Pub/Sub to decouple ingestion from downstream processing, improving pipeline reliability and reducing processing failures by 40% using retries, dead-letter handling, and distributed tracing.
Senior Software Engineer at Google
September 1, 2022 - December 1, 2024
Architected and shipped a cloud-native service for high-scale user interactions using Node.js and REST APIs on Google Cloud Platform, improving p95 latency by 18% through query optimization and caching strategies. Implemented a robust data pipeline with BigQuery for analytics and experimentation, enabling near-real-time insights and reducing reporting cycle time by 30% with partitioned tables and automated backfills. Partnered with product and client stakeholders to translate requirements into system design docs and incremental delivery plans, improving cross-team delivery predictability and reducing rework by 20%. Hardened reliability by adding observability with distributed tracing and SLO-based alerting, decreasing production regressions by 25% through targeted rollouts and automated testing gates.
Senior Software Engineer at Frost Bank
February 1, 2018 - August 1, 2022
Delivered customer-facing banking features by building maintainable backend services and web interfaces, improving onboarding completion rates by 15% through streamlined flows and validation. Designed secure integration layers for account and transaction data, applying least-privilege access controls and consistent API contracts to reduce data mismatch defects by 18%. Modernized legacy components into modular services, improving deployment frequency and reducing change failure rate by 22% through CI/CD standardization and automated regression coverage.
Software Engineer at Oceans Healthcare
June 1, 2015 - February 1, 2018
Built healthcare application features end-to-end, connecting user workflows to backend services and improving operational visibility for care teams. Implemented data validation and error-handling patterns across APIs, reducing support tickets by 12% through clearer failure modes and consistent responses.

Education

Master's degree at Texas Tech University
January 1, 2013 - December 1, 2015
Bachelor's degree at Texas Tech University
January 1, 2009 - December 1, 2013
Master's degree in Computer Science at Texas Tech University
January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2015
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Texas Tech University
January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2013

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Financial Services, Software & Internet