Angelo Chaves

Myself

Work Experience

1. Eventbrite

   Full Stack Software Engineer II

   (2022 - 2024)

   2 years working with the Pricing & Taxes team and 3 months of close collaboration with the Consumer SEO team and the Localization team for different projects.

   Mantained a core monolith and services created in Django + MySQL, alongside a new service created in Kotlin, deployed in AWS with ECS + Fargate and built with Terraform using IaC. Frontend codebase is in React/Redux with Typescript.

   
   

   Taxes

   • Reduced the company's tax exposure by $2M/year by bringing the company in-line with critical tax compliance laws and implementing tax collection in new US jurisdictions.
   • Reduced EB's potential tax liabilities by thousands of dollars per year by aligning with current US tax laws and obligations and greatly improving the user experience of completing tax information.
   • Improved user conversion into activity by partially reworking the legacy tax implementation.

   Pricing

   • Updated complex legacy pricing and fees logic under tight timelines. These changes were projected to drive millions of dollars of incremental revenue for the business in 2023.

   SEO

   • Helped the Consumer SEO team reach their backend & frontend deliverable objectives during a single quarter in time for their deadline.

   Localization

   • Lead and worked in tandem with the Localization Team to enable the Spanish language for US customers across the site.

   Other achievements

   • Reduced backlog of legacy bugs by over 50% in just 6 monhts without sacrificing velocity on core business projects.
   • Continually maintained robust system documentation to ensure resiliency and scalability.
   • Became a load bearing pillar of the team during several months to ensure a smooth transition between old and new team members during a company restructuring, while ensuring critical objectives where still delivered.

2. FUTIT Services

   Software Engineer

   (2015 - 2021)

   6 years of experience developing and consulting for clients around the world, mostly using Java/Kotlin, Javascript/Typescript and Postgres.

   • Maintained existing React Native mobile applications
   • Developed a dynamic mobile UI for an existing backend with React Native and Typescript
   • Co-lead the development of a fork of an existing ERP app, modernizing the development stack and UI, improving or replacing legacy frameworks, technologies and practices.