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Full Stack Engineer specializing in CMS architecture, structured content modeling, and search-driven application systems. 6+ years of professional experience designing API ingestion pipelines, faceted search platforms, and multi-platform commerce integrations. Experienced working across custom C# commerce systems, IBM/HCL Commerce, SaaS platforms, Craft CMS, and WordPress. Strong focus on backend data normalization, search schema design, and maintainable system architecture while maintaining high UX fluency. Consistently deliver high-reliability digital platforms with 100% client retention and $118k+ annual freelance revenue.…Full Stack Engineer specializing in CMS architecture, structured content modeling, and search-driven application systems. 6+ years of professional experience designing API ingestion pipelines, faceted search platforms, and multi-platform commerce integrations. Experienced working across custom C# commerce systems, IBM/HCL Commerce, SaaS platforms, Craft CMS, and WordPress. Strong focus on backend data normalization, search schema design, and maintainable system architecture while maintaining high UX fluency. Consistently deliver high-reliability digital platforms with 100% client retention and $118k+ annual freelance revenue.

Salvador Ibarra

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Full Stack Engineer specializing in CMS architecture, structured content modeling, and search-driven application systems. 6+ years of professional experience designing API ingestion pipelines, faceted search platforms, and multi-platform commerce integrations. Experienced working across custom C# commerce systems, IBM/HCL Commerce, SaaS platforms, Craft CMS, and WordPress. Strong focus on backend data normalization, search schema design, and maintainable system architecture while maintaining high UX fluency. Consistently deliver high-reliability digital platforms with 100% client retention and $118k+ annual freelance revenue.…Full Stack Engineer specializing in CMS architecture, structured content modeling, and search-driven application systems. 6+ years of professional experience designing API ingestion pipelines, faceted search platforms, and multi-platform commerce integrations. Experienced working across custom C# commerce systems, IBM/HCL Commerce, SaaS platforms, Craft CMS, and WordPress. Strong focus on backend data normalization, search schema design, and maintainable system architecture while maintaining high UX fluency. Consistently deliver high-reliability digital platforms with 100% client retention and $118k+ annual freelance revenue.

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Full Stack Engineer specializing in CMS architecture, structured content modeling, and
search-driven application systems. 6+ years of professional experience designing API ingestion
pipelines, faceted search platforms, and multi-platform commerce integrations.
Experienced working across custom C# commerce systems, IBM/HCL Commerce, SaaS
platforms, Craft CMS, and WordPress. Strong focus on backend data normalization, search
schema design, and maintainable system architecture while maintaining high UX fluency.
Consistently deliver high-reliability digital platforms with 100% client retention and $118k+
annual freelance revenue.

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Founder / Full Stack Engineer at Desert Sun Studio

January 1, 2020 - Present

Founded and led a remote software & CMS consultancy delivering structured content platforms, search-driven systems, and bespoke CMS architectures for non-profit, policy, and commerce organizations. Built modular ingestion pipelines, Meilisearch-based search delivery with SSR-style rendering, and lifecycle processing from API triggers to indexed entries. Led a legislative search platform project integrating congress.gov API with Craft CMS, including structured data models and workflow rules.

Full Stack Engineer (Contract) at Oh Buoy

January 1, 2021 - Present

Provided CMS architecture and platform strategy for non-profit and policy-focused organizations. Built custom WordPress platforms (e.g., ie-care.org, citytutor.org) and implemented metadata schemes for SEO and social distribution; integrated Circleso community systems; led digital platform expansion.

CMS & Platform Engineer (Contract) at DFS Commerce

January 1, 2020 - Present

Led feature continuity and architectural adaptation during platform migrations across a multi-brand e-commerce ecosystem (C# multi-site platform; IBM/HP Commerce; BigCommerce SaaS). Implemented checkout logic with conditional terms gating, account-state restrictions, and hot-flag workflows. Designed loyalty and cart-level incentives; introduced multi-warehouse availability and stock visibility logic; re-architected order history with lazy loading and state-based segmentation. Coordinated cross-team integration between marketing, product, and development stakeholders; implemented Jira ↔ Monday.com synchronization and structured feedback loops.

Founder / Architect - Legislative Search Platform at Desert Sun Studio

March 1, 2026 - Present

Architected a modular ingestion pipeline integrating Congress.gov API into Craft CMS with queue-controlled throttling and normalization. Defined a lifecycle-driven processing flow: API trigger → structured entry creation → search document indexing. Designed Meilisearch schema with searchable attributes and ranking rules; implemented SSR-rendered delivery and URL state synchronization.