Carlos Vega Rodríguez

Cross-platform community & social media app (iOS + Android) — media capture/upload, reactions, activity feeds, real-time chat, i18n, durable upload queues, plus a Next.js admin panel and web invite system.

• Technical anchor of the current munity app — built and evolved it with AI woven through architecture, implementation, and review, and guided every contributor the project has had.
• Co-developed an AI-assisted delivery workflow linking project-management tasks to GitHub PRs, and set the team standard for traceability via conventional commits that reference each task ID.
• Built AI-assisted onboarding tools and self-guided codebase walkthroughs for new personnel, freeing senior-engineer time otherwise spent on ramp-up.
• Designed and shipped LLM-based content moderation for user-generated content.
• Primary engineer since 2021 and the largest individual contributor across 4+ years of continuous delivery.
• Established the React Native + React Query server-state standard and app-wide caching architecture.
• Owned release and delivery — OTA update pipeline, build tooling, and CI for production rollouts.
• Hardened authentication and reliability — refresh-token rotation, idempotency, and offline-resilient caching.

Independent, AI-assisted audit of a Java enterprise application (property-collections software), its REST API, and AWS architecture — a prioritized set of recommendations delivered to the client’s engineering team.

• Reviewed the REST API and found roughly 40% of endpoints duplicated across roles; proposed an endpoint-by-endpoint consolidation strategy to remove dead code and realign business logic while keeping controllers live.
• Assessed AWS architecture and operational readiness — environment/region strategy, knowledge-transfer gaps, and the absence of security and load testing ahead of scaling.
• Evaluated client-side error handling and recommended error categorization, timeout and feedback loops, and clearer system-status indicators to eliminate stuck loading states and false-success outcomes.
• Delivered a prioritized, business-aligned remediation plan for the client’s engineers.

Complex, high-volume, always-available online ad delivery platform for a Stockholm-based ad-tech company — collaborated on system design and scaled cloud services for real-time ad delivery and reporting, operated in production and engineered for scalability and resiliency on AWS with Kubernetes.

EV car-sharing app (“Mobility as an Amenity”) — app-based reservations, keyless vehicle access, and property-scoped fleet flows.