Carlos Lugo

Engineered an education platform using .NET 6, ASP.NET Core 6, Node.js 16, and React 17, boosting user engagement by 35% through analytics-driven performance and UX. Developed secure, scalable RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Core 6 and Express.js, streamlining data retrieval and reducing system latency. Led migration to a microservices architecture, improving system scalability, fault tolerance, and developer productivity. Integrated AI-driven chatbots with .NET Core and OpenAI/NLP frameworks, automating 50% of user support interactions and reducing operational workload. Implemented containerization with Docker 20, standardizing environments and accelerating CI/CD pipelines across teams.

Led frontend architecture using React 18 with Server-Side Rendering (SSR) to improve SEO, accessibility, and performance for payment platforms; delivered scalable UIs with TailwindCSS and Bootstrap 5; implemented global state with Redux Toolkit and React Query; built reusable UI components across React and Angular; integrated Strapi headless CMS for dynamic content; maintained modular frontend with TypeScript 5; optimized with Vite and Webpack 5; architected distributed systems with .NET 8, ASP.NET Core 8 and Node.js 20 (NestJS/Express); developed RESTful and GraphQL APIs with JWT/OAuth2 authentication; optimized databases (SQL Server 2022, PostgreSQL 16, Redis) with EF Core 8 and TypeORM; engineered event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ; enabled real-time features with SignalR; championed TDD with xUnit, Moq, Jest, Cypress; led cloud-native deployments on Azure and AWS with Kubernetes; built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps; integrated Prometheus and Azure Monitor for

Engineered an education platform using .NET 6, ASP.NET Core 6, Node.js 16, and React 17; boosted user engagement by 35% through performance and UX improvements. Developed secure, scalable RESTful APIs and led migration to a microservices architecture. Integrated AI-driven chatbots with .NET Core and OpenAI/NLP, automating portions of user support. Containerized services with Docker 20 and standardized CI/CD pipelines across teams.