I’m David Ruiz, a full-stack engineer with 7+ years shipping production software across fintech, lending, identity verification, and SaaS—usually bridging architecture to end-user experience. I enjoy modernizing legacy systems without disrupting live production, and I’ve built and evolved backend services in C#/.NET and Python, while also delivering responsive web experiences with React and Next.js. Lately, I’ve been shipping AI-enabled backend services and orchestration pipelines using models from Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic, focusing on prompt design, evaluation, and production-readiness in cloud environments. I’m comfortable across AWS and Azure, and I care about performance, security (including API auth and multi-tenant controls), and pragmatic delivery from CI/CD through to reliable product outcomes.

I’m David Ruiz, a full-stack engineer with 7+ years shipping production software across fintech, lending, identity verification, and SaaS—usually bridging architecture to end-user experience. I enjoy modernizing legacy systems without disrupting live production, and I’ve built and evolved backend services in C#/.NET and Python, while also delivering responsive web experiences with React and Next.js. Lately, I’ve been shipping AI-enabled backend services and orchestration pipelines using models from Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic, focusing on prompt design, evaluation, and production-readiness in cloud environments. I’m comfortable across AWS and Azure, and I care about performance, security (including API auth and multi-tenant controls), and pragmatic delivery from CI/CD through to reliable product outcomes.

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I’m David Ruiz, a full-stack engineer with 7+ years shipping production software across fintech, lending, identity verification, and SaaS—usually bridging architecture to end-user experience. I enjoy modernizing legacy systems without disrupting live production, and I’ve built and evolved backend services in C#/.NET and Python, while also delivering responsive web experiences with React and Next.js.

Lately, I’ve been shipping AI-enabled backend services and orchestration pipelines using models from Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic, focusing on prompt design, evaluation, and production-readiness in cloud environments. I’m comfortable across AWS and Azure, and I care about performance, security (including API auth and multi-tenant controls), and pragmatic delivery from CI/CD through to reliable product outcomes.

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Language

English
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Spanish; Castilian
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Work Experience

Backend Engineer (.NET) at Sombra Nov
November 1, 2025 - July 1, 2026
Built new C#/.NET services and shared libraries inside a large legacy loan-management platform, driving modernization without disrupting production. Profiled and rewrote SQL Server stored procedures with DB engineers to improve performance across loan-servicing workflows.
AI Engineer at Neighborbrite
October 1, 2025 - May 1, 2026
Shipped backend AI services (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic) for an AI landscape design product using prompt and pipeline orchestration, evaluation, and multi-step processing in Python on AWS. Built a mobile-first product UI and optimized the Next.js web app, reducing load times on customer-facing flows.
Chief Technology Officer at Pelican Invests
January 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025
Led the transformation into a mobile-first fintech platform for family education savings—owning architecture, compliance, roadmap, and cross-functional engineering. Established investment partnerships and delivered end-to-end financial product integrations.
Flutter Engineer at Productive Edge
October 1, 2024 - July 1, 2025
Modernized Churchill Solitaire, a premium mobile card game, into a cross-platform iOS/Android app. Implemented Firebase real-time sync, platform auth, in-app purchases, and CI/CD for both stores.
Full Stack Engineer at Revstar
April 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025
Delivered client MVPs across React, Next.js, Python, and .NET. Prototyped AI solutions (OpenAI, LLaMA, DeepSeek) from exploration to production-ready, system-aware workflows.
Full Stack Engineer at Intellich eck
April 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025
Redesigned a high-throughput backend on FastAPI, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch with API-key authentication, encryption, and multi-tenant access controls. Built internal tools across web and desktop (Electron) using Python, React, and NestJS, and contributed to CI/CD on AWS.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Clivi
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Senior Frontend Developer at Acreditta
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2024
Frontend Developer at Cavca SAS
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2024
Junior Consultant at DB Solutions
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020
CTO & Co-Founder at Chamba Inc
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2024
Built and led the core product (React, Node.js, .NET Core, AWS) to 100k+ active users within six months of launch. Raised investor funding and owned the end-to-end product process.

Education

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Qualifications

B.S. in Software Engineering
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022
Scrum Fundamentals Certified
January 1, 2021 - September 4, 2026
Microsoft Certified Professional
January 1, 2017 - September 4, 2026
CISCO IoT Course
January 1, 2018 - September 4, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics