Germán Pineda

GoodBite · Full-time

• Co-Founder & CTO

  Jan 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos·Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Designed and developed a TypeScript React Native mobile app that enabled users to browse and purchase excess food at a discounted rate posted by local restaurants in Los Angeles. • Developed an admin web portal with Next.js and TypeScript which enabled restaurant managers to post excess food to the GoodBite mobile app. • Designed and implemented a backend system using MySQL hosted on PlanetScale, Prisma as our ORM, and tRPC which resulted in a scalable system that featured end-to-end type safety. • Implemented an auto CI/CD pipeline through GitHub Actions using GCP Cloud Build and Cloud Run to automate 100% of testing and deployments.

Pathmatics, Inc. · Full-time

• Software Engineer

  Jun 2018 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos·Santa Monica, California, United States

  • Designed and developed a TypeScript React web app that enabled 200+ contractors to mark up ad screenshots and capture custom data which ultimately supported projects worth $1M+/year. • Developed ASP.NET pages that empowered company admins to manage internal data which eliminated mundane developer tasks. • Spearheaded the migration of legacy CI/CD workflows to modern pipelines using self-hosted instances of TeamCity and Octopus on AWS EC2 which sped up deployments by 80% and enabled seamless rollbacks. • Spearheaded the adoption of Stack Overflow Teams as a way to improve knowledge transfer and collaboration within our tech and product teams. • Overhauled our entire Jira workflow process, which resulted in the elimination of bottlenecks and improved employee engagement in agile development practices. • Co-created an internal employee learning group with the goal of teaching development best practices by focusing on solving real company problems. React Web Application

Raytheon Technologies · Full-time

• Software Development Engineer In Test

  Sep 2016 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos·San Diego, California, United States

  • Designed and developed a C# WPF desktop application using the MVVM design pattern that was used to showcase live test metrics during system integration testing and customer demos. • Developed a C# WinForms desktop application that simulated a ship's AN/WSN-7 Inertial Navigation System and was essential for testing GPS communication and fault procedures during system integration testing. • Developed and maintained C# test libraries that extended the capability of Automated Test Frameworks in accessing, collecting, and analyzing live/post-test data through mediums such as SSH, Ethernet, and Serial communication. • Developed a C# Selenium Test Agent that automated 95% of test procedures pertinent to the verification of the web application used to control the GPNTS system. • 1 of 5 team members awarded the Raytheon IDS President’s Award for applying DevOps in the GPNTS program which resulted in a $5M cost avoidance and a >50% reduction of time in formal test verification. • Created and published a 15-minute internal educational video used to teach engineers across Raytheon programs how to set up a Test Automation framework using Visual Studio and NUnit SpecFlow. Raytheon IDS President's Award 2018

Qualcomm · Internship

• Test Automation Engineering Intern

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 · 3 mos·San Diego, California, United States

  • Designed and developed a Python application that automated the process of calibrating and testing medical-grade thermometer patches. → Python application enabled the complete control of sophisticated lab equipment such as a VWR Circulating Bath, a TestEquity Temperature Chamber, Agilent Digital Multimeters, Fluke Thermometer with High-Accuracy Thermistor Probes, BK Precision Programmable DC Power Supplies, etc. → Python application included data visualization features that graphed and stored live data into a MySql database. • Wrote Python scripts to quickly and efficiently collect, process, and analyze live and post-test data. • Wrote and performed automated test procedures to validate the accuracy of thermometer patches and measure product performance against competitors. Python Application - Live Data Feed