Esther Villars - Engineer Lead CTO, Ixchel Tech

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Work Background

BananaCrystalSoftware Engineering Lead

Mar. 2024 - Jul. 2024United States* Letting go of the legos * Technical and strategic consulting

BananaCrystalSoftware Engineering Lead

Oct. 2020 - Feb. 2024United StatesFintech & Crypto Applications Technical leadership and strategy for FinTech Peer to Peer Trading Strategic product development and partnerships Lead and manage technical front-end, back-end and mobile team to build core fintech application Management of SDLC, Security, Compliance, Corporate IT - Financial Applications, Compliance, KYC Verification, Security - Mobile, Web, API, Blockchain, Web3, Peer to Peer Trading

FlatPyramidCompliance and Technology

Sep. 2020 - Aug. 2022Manhattan Beach, California, United States* Technical strategy and implementation of 3d model marketplace web3 integration with blockchain, crypto payment rails and NFTs * Strategic partnerships with third party crypto on-ramps/off-ramps

ExecOnlineSenior Software Engineer

Dec. 2018 - Oct. 2020New York, United StatesEnterprise E-Learning Applications - User Security and Compliance * Optimize video processing pipeline to increase reliability and reduce operational costs by migrating and upgrading existing system to serverless (event driven architecture, AWS Lambda functions, Step functions and other third party video processing services) * Technical leadership and strategic implementation of Enterprise Single Sign On (SSO), rollout and onboarding of various existing clients to new SSO solution, cross-functional collaboration with Customer Success and Product

WebVRToolHead Of Technology

Jun. 2018 - Dec. 2018RemoteWebVR WebGL Browser Based Editing Application Leads and manages technical team to execute technical roadmap for stakeholders and for partners. Develops new features for MVP, serverless processing pipeline, implements bug fixes, pair programming. Manages high level architecture and infrastructure for new microservices and new MVPs including serverless, autoscaling applications, cloud storage and security, alerts, logging. Validates the technical direction for emerging business opportunities. Mentors developers in overall best practices and ensures code quality and overall integrity of features.

NetflixSenior Software Engineer

Nov. 2017 - May. 2018Greater Los Angeles AreaStudio Programming Engineering - building the future of how the Netflix studio creates and produces shows on a global scale. Partnering closely with data science teams to build beautiful applications that make the studio workflow 10x more efficient.

NetflixFull Stack Developer

Mar. 2016 - Nov. 2017Los Gatos, CABuild new and manage existing enterprise web applications and external consumer-facing job site. Integrate with third party systems/APIs. Solve the needs of internal stakeholders by crafting solutions that meets their needs and are extensible and easy to support. Implement backend and front end features for both the enterprise web applications and the consumer facing job site - Ruby on Rails, EmberJS, AWS, Microservices.

SpiritClips by HallmarkLead Software Engineer (Ink & Main now Hallmark Labs)

Sep. 2014 - Feb. 2016Greater Los Angeles AreaLeads and manages the re-build of large legacy e-commerce system (shop.hallmark.com personalized cards) for printing customized cards on demand in Ruby on Rails, Spree Commerce & AngularJS (now InkandMain.com).

Oversee.netSenior Web Developer (Consumer Verticals)

Mar. 2012 - Apr. 2014Greater Los Angeles AreaLed and implemented the front end web development of consumer facing sites in Ruby on Rails, Drupal using Bootstrap & AngularJS.

FlatPyramidLead Software Developer (3D Marketplace)

Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2012Greater Los Angeles AreaManaged and implemented the end-to-end the development, deploymentand performance optimization of e-commerce, content publishing platform, and asset management system (PHP, Drupal, MySQL, Solr, AWS)