Carlos Galarza

CodePortal is a full-stack AI-first programming platform for makers and product teams who are frustrated with the limitations of traditional programming and tooling. It makes it easier for all team members to make changes to their products, reducing friction, eliminating handoffs and increasing velocity. With CodePortal, you and your teams can create, edit, and deploy web apps, widgets, and APIs faster without installing or configuring anything.

Software Engineer and consultant building software products and leading teams. I help businesses ship high-quality products. Additionally, I help with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD. I work with companies from the US and Canada.

I have worked with several SaaS businesses, dev shops, e-commerce, and digital agencies to help them achieve their strategic and technical goals.

I did product development and company strategy execution, owning the research, design, and development of new features. I mentored team members and led substantial improvements in the team process and the app.

I did a variety of things, ranging from web development to DevOps. I worked with TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Postgres, React, Terraform, and other technologies.

I improved the app's error handling and engineering team processes by implementing Storybook, removing unnecessary steps in the deployment process, and collaborating with the DevOps team. Also, I solved many of the hardest bugs, the hardest one being in the native apps, and led a database architecture improvement to solve a bottleneck that was hurting our main users.

Many of my initiatives were company-wide and had a significant impact. Regarding the engineering process, I implemented postmortems (incident reports), DORA metrics, and RFCs. RFCs were a big win for the engineering team and were widely adopted.

While there, I was promoted to Tech Lead of a five-person team while still having substantial technical responsibilities.