I’m Carlos Garcia, a Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building reliable backend systems, production APIs, data platforms, and cloud operations. I specialize in PostgreSQL-first engineering, API development, data pipelines, and production reliability for startups and digital product teams, helping organizations grow without losing stability as traffic, features, and data increase. I’ve worked end-to-end across planning, architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring—often combining backend engineering with hands-on DevOps practices. Highlights include improving performance with Redis caching, maintaining and evolving PostgreSQL schemas for multi-tenant architectures, building robust data ingestion pipelines, and setting up observability (logging/metrics) with alerting and recovery practices so services stay dependable under real load.…

Carlos Garcia

I’m Carlos Garcia, a Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building reliable backend systems, production APIs, data platforms, and cloud operations. I specialize in PostgreSQL-first engineering, API development, data pipelines, and production reliability for startups and digital product teams, helping organizations grow without losing stability as traffic, features, and data increase. I’ve worked end-to-end across planning, architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring—often combining backend engineering with hands-on DevOps practices. Highlights include improving performance with Redis caching, maintaining and evolving PostgreSQL schemas for multi-tenant architectures, building robust data ingestion pipelines, and setting up observability (logging/metrics) with alerting and recovery practices so services stay dependable under real load.…

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I’m Carlos Garcia, a Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building reliable backend systems, production APIs, data platforms, and cloud operations. I specialize in PostgreSQL-first engineering, API development, data pipelines, and production reliability for startups and digital product teams, helping organizations grow without losing stability as traffic, features, and data increase.

I’ve worked end-to-end across planning, architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring—often combining backend engineering with hands-on DevOps practices. Highlights include improving performance with Redis caching, maintaining and evolving PostgreSQL schemas for multi-tenant architectures, building robust data ingestion pipelines, and setting up observability (logging/metrics) with alerting and recovery practices so services stay dependable under real load.

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Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer at Lofty
January 1, 2024 - November 1, 2025
Architected and maintained production PostgreSQL databases serving a real estate SaaS platform with 50K+ daily active users. Implemented Redis caching to reduce API response times by 65% and database load by 40%. Set up monitoring with Sentry and DataDog to reduce mean time to detection from hours to minutes. Built automated backup and disaster recovery procedures for a multi-tenant PostgreSQL database architecture. Led migration from a monolithic architecture to microservices deployed on Google Cloud Run with Docker; developed and maintained REST APIs handling 2M+ requests daily, and managed schema evolution across 15+ microservices with zero-downtime migrations.
Backend Developer at VTS
March 1, 2022 - December 1, 2023
Developed and maintained RESTful APIs handling 2M+ requests daily for a commercial real estate platform. Managed PostgreSQL database schema evolution across 15+ microservices, enabling zero-downtime migrations. Built data pipelines using Python to sync property and tenant data from multiple third-party sources. Implemented OAuth 2 authentication flows for Google and Microsoft SSO integrations. Collaborated with frontend teams through PR reviews and created technical documentation in Notion and Slack.
Backend Developer at Latch el
July 1, 2020 - February 1, 2022
Built backend services in Node.js and Python for a property management maintenance coordination platform. Designed PostgreSQL database schemas for multi-tenant architectures supporting 500+ property management companies. Deployed containerized applications to AWS ECS and managed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. Integrated third-party APIs for payment processing, SMS notifications, and vendor management. Wrote unit and integration tests achieving 85%+ code coverage.
Junior Backend Developer at Rappi
February 1, 2018 - June 1, 2020
Developed backend features for a delivery platform using Node.js and PostgreSQL. Maintained database indexes and queries to optimize performance for high-traffic endpoints. Participated in on-call rotation to monitor and resolve production incidents. Wrote API documentation and collaborated with mobile developers on integrations. Implemented Redis caching for frequently accessed catalog and location data.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Systems Engineering at Universidad de Antioquia
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Real Estate & Construction