Personal details

Pedro A.

Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

Experienced backend engineer with experience in startups and educational institutions in Silicon Valley.

Please check my Linkedin for my updated info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-assis-03258851/

Specialist in Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elastic Search for web and large scale systems
MSc in machine learning and semantic Web
Extensive experience with algorithms and scalability challenges
Over the course of my career, I interviewed over 100 engineers for several positions from junior to senior.

Technical skills

Python・8 yrs Ruby on Rails・6 yrs PostgreSQL・3 yrs MySQL・5 yrs Ruby・6 yrs Algorithm・10 yrs Data Modelling・9 yrs WordPress・2 yrs

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Instacart | Aug 2017 - Dec 2019

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

* Working in critical integrations with Instacart partners and scalability * Working on supply/demand models to power delivery logistics

Senior Software Engineer

Stanford School of Medicine | Oct 2015 - Jul 2017

Python

PostgreSQL

Development, research and maintenance of the Saccharomyces Genome Database project (www.yeastgenome.org). I was responsible for the backend development: API design and implementation, software architecture, performance improvements and also participating on several data modeling decisions of the Yeast genome.