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Hey, I’m

Mauricio Dávalos

I'm a Software Engineer based in Quito, Ecuador. Experienced in front-end and back-end development using React JS, Node JS, and TypeScript, as well as cloud computing with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway, and Code Pipeline. I am adept at tackling challenges + committed to ongoing learning and improvement in my career as an engineer.

EXPERIENCE

EFEX

Nov 2024 - Present

Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Summary: An advanced financial solution for businesses in the U.S. and Mexico. Our integrated platform and API are designed to help you save money and drive your business's financial growth.

  • - Lead onboarding and stakeholder management system, focusing on regulatory compliance and user experience.
  • - Architected and implemented comprehensive stakeholder management system supporting both natural and legal persons across international entities, enabling the business to expand its client base to include corporate customers and complex business structures for the first time.
  • - Spearheaded development of streamlined onboarding processes for domestic and foreign shareholders, reducing onboarding time and enabling rapid business expansion into new markets.
  • - Developed and optimized USA onboarding flows, including document verification systems and regulatory compliance checks.
  • - Engineered robust form validation and error handling systems for complex financial data entry, significantly reducing user error rates.
  • - Built and integrated dynamic address verification components for multiple countries, improving data accuracy and user experience.

Hivemapper

Dec 2023 - Nov 2024

San Francisco, California, United States of America

Summary: The most up-to-date maps in the world. Hivemapper’s technology surpasses Google Maps by utilizing dash cams to capture real-time data, which is then processed through AI to provide users with the freshest map possible.

  • - Created a high-performance promotional page for Fleet customers, targeting small to commercial fleets for dashcam technology increasing contact emails and potential purchase orders, providing marketing and sales teams with a dedicated link for potential customers.
  • - Created the main Product page for the company, featuring a modern interface that showcases the company's products: Map Image API, Map Features API, Scout, and Bursts. Each product is detailed with crafted descriptions that highlight its functionalities, and the page includes a contact form for direct user engagement with the sales team, tailored to industry-specific needs. Additionally, developed a dynamic pricing portal to transparently display the costs associated with the various services offered.
  • - Created the Use Case pages designed to attract and engage users from diverse industries, including automotive, navigation & logistics, government & city, insurance, and real estate. These pages highlight specific scenarios where the company’s products can be effectively utilized, driving industry-specific engagement and demonstrating the products' versatility and impact.
  • - Created the official Web App Blog. Filtering and Pagination features created to improve the usage and interactivity, improved UI overall to showcase content effectively. Added carousels to enhance user experience, and improve navigation flow.
  • - Set up SEO structure across different web apps to improve and increase traffic and online conversions across different pages of the company.
  • - Proposed UI/UX improvements to the design team, achieving a better product. Made the Product Team happy.
  • - Refactored many different UI components on desktop and mobile, improving the Navigation and the User Experience.
  • - Fixed code smells / broken screens / resolve legacy issues and bugs on production.

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Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Summary: startup running live speed dating events. Founders are serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds at Riot Games, Scale AI, IBM, and MIT.

  • - Worked directly with the startup's cofounders as first full-time engineering hire.
  • - Developed a live chat messaging interface for admin dashboard to replace Openphone as an external vendor, optimizing event ops and customer communications. Used React, Tailwind CSS, WebSockets, and Twilio.
  • - Build responsive mailing list subscription app using React, Tailwind CSS, and tRPC.
  • - Developed screens and UI components for the web application using React JS and Tailwind.
  • - Replaced RSVPify with in-house registration system.
  • - Fixed UI and functional issues in production.

Kushki

Jun 2021 - Sept 2023

Quito, Ecuador

Summary: Kushki is Stripe for Latam, and the first startup in Ecuador to become a unicorn (a year after I joined). Product used by millions across 5 countries in Latam.

  • - Contributed to ETL pipeline project automating the migration of old merchants to new database version with Scala, which ultimately replaced an entire company department previously doing the workflow manually.
  • - Built key dashboard features for internal “Console 3.0” including components, API integrations, and screen layouts: filter transactions, download button, chargebacks, security ID copy button, etc.
  • - Delivered robust code performing well against 100% unit & integration test coverage (mocking API calls, etc), minimizing bugs & making QA team happy.
  • - Deployed own features in CI/CD paradigm, working across front + back-end in React JS, TypeScript, RxJS, Node.js, and AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and CI/CD Pipeline - AWS CodePipeline).
  • - Worked extensively with SCRUM agile methodology and tools like JIRA.

Medical Records Project - Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas “ESPE”

Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

Latacunga, Ecuador

  • - Asked by computer science professor to help create new medical records software for the university as an internship.
  • - Built responsive components for the Single Page Application (SPA) using Vue JS + TypeScript.
  • - Implemented backend modules using Spring Boot JAVA, MySQL.
  • - Full-stack development + some design improvements to Figma components.

Factu (Internship)

Feb 2019 - Sep 2019

Quito, Ecuador

  • - Simplified complex data in financial reports for the Ecuadorian Internal Revenue Service (SRI) utilizing Apache ECharts + Vanilla JS / HTML5 / CSS3.
  • - Designed report page layouts in Figma.
  • - Collaborated with CEO to ensure the alignment of reports with organizational objectives and regulatory standards.

Logical Tech Solutions (Internship)

Sep 2018 - Feb 2019

Miami, United States of America

  • - Designed UI components using Adobe XD.
  • - Built different SPA components using React JS / HTML5 / CSS3.
  • - Built features for the backend using Node JS + Express library.

AWARDS

Academic Excellence Scholarship

2017 - 2022

Latacunga, Ecuador

  • Received economical compensation for study fees and various expenses based on academic excellence (Top 1% of class) at Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas “ESPE”.

EDUCATION

Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas “ESPE”

2017 - 2022

Latacunga, Ecuador

  • Diploma of Software Engineering, (Bachelor of Software Engineering)

Colegio Técnico “Don Bosco”

2015 - 2017

Quito, Ecuador

  • Electronics Engineering, Pre-Engineering

FEATURE PROJECTS

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Hivemapper Products

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Hivemapper Use Cases

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Hivemapper Fleets

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Hivemapper Blog

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