Mauricio Salazar
Austin,United States
Summary
Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and developing solutions in different domains. Strong experience working with product stakeholders to understand and translate their needs into technical requirements. Problem solving oriented with strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Passionate about software engineering, security and quality, eager to learn and collaborate with talented people to create top notch applications. Main Profile: - 12+ years of experience working as Software Engineer
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
04.2021 - Current
- Senior Software Engineer within Apple's CRM group, focused on design and implementation of scalable Salesforce solutions to reduce friction across the sales processes for Apple Sales teams and External Partners. Provides technical leadership by defining architectural standards, design guidelines, and best practices that improve code quality, consistency, and maintainability.
- As a Senior Engineer, led the design and implementation of Salesforce based solutions to streamline end-to-end sales workflows for Account Executives and improve collaboration and experience for third-party partners across Apple's CRM ecosystem.
- Architected and implemented an internal platform to visualize Salesforce org metadata and security configuration, automating administrative workflows and significantly improving usability for System Administrators and Developers.
- Led the architectural redesign of a core CRM component, evolving a tightly coupled implementation into a flexible, modular system that improved scalability, maintainability, and engineering velocity.
- Designed and implemented a reusable mocking framework to enable reliable unit testing of complex Salesforce dependencies, significantly improving test isolation and developer productivity across multiple teams.
- Drove a 65% performance improvement in a CRM mobile application by optimizing data loading algorithms and data access improvements.
- As a Lead Engineer, served as a member of the Architecture Review Board, reviewing and approving technical designs from partner teams to ensure scalability, security, and alignment with Apple CRM architectural standards.
Staff Software Engineer
Visa
Austin, Texas
05.2019 - 04.2021
- Staff Software Engineer for the Visa Direct group, focused on the design and implementation solutions to extend Visa’s payment network capabilities.
- Implemented solution to extend Visa’s capabilities to process payments through ACH/RTP schemes, that will help close the gap in low card usage regions.
- Implemented solution to translate messages from financial institutions, that have adopted financial message standards (e.g. ISO20022) as their message communication scheme, to integrate with Visa Direct Pay service.
- Implemented security (OAuth) on a solution to integrate Visa with other payment networks
IT Architect/Sr Software Engineer
NXP Semiconductors
Austin, Texas
05.2016 - 05.2019
- Software Architect in the SC&A (Trust Provisioning) team. Focusing on design, and implementation of REST APIs to gather and keep track of the data that goes through the company’s IoTHub.
- Software Architect for the IMO (Integration Management Office - Qualcomm-NXP). Playing the lead role of the integration of multiple systems with Qualcomm’s counterpart.
- Designed and implemented systems using microservices architectural style with cutting-edge technologies like Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, etc.
- Awarded with Bravo Award!
Tech Lead/Sr Software Engineer
Freescale Semiconductor
Austin, Texas
03.2013 - 05.2016
- Worked as technical lead/application’s architect on the Transformation & Modernization group. Responsible to lead the technical design, implementation and testing for new solutions, as well as for the modernization of existing systems for multiple business groups.
- Refactored large-scale and critical manufacturing application optimizing performance, improving flexibility and scalability
- Principal developer of an application (FreeLift) that made us won the 2015 CIO 100 award.
- Awarded with Bravo Award!
- Awarded with Thank You! Award for Bringing People Together
- Promoted to IT Architect (relocated to US)
Tech Lead/Sr Web Application Developer
Hildebrando
08.2011 - 03.2013
- Technical lead for a project to develop a solution to manage disbursements for our client CoreLogic.
- Make technical and architectural decisions, as well as mentor and guiding team members on technical challenges.
- Promoted to technical lead
Sr Web Application Developer
Pounce Consulting
07.2010 - 08.2011
- Software Engineer developing Business Intelligence related applications.
- As a software developer my role was to implement and deliver great quality software following best practices, standards and use of tools.
- Designed/Developed applications from scratch using Java technologies
Sr Web Application Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2009 - 07.2010
- Software Engineer for GE Energy division. Main responsibility was to develop new applications to fulfill user needs, and provide support for existing systems.
- Designed/Developed web application using Java based technologies.
Web Application Developer
Softtek
01.2007 - 07.2009
- Software developer a banking system. Main role was to help on the design and development of new requirements for the application.
- Design and development of modules for the system
- Consolidated as software developer
- Promoted from intern to full-time employee
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Software Engineering
Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
Skills
- Architecture
- Software development
- Problem solving
- Object-Oriented design
- Technical leadership
Certification
- Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer
- Sun Certified Java Programmer 5
- Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE 6 Web Component Developer
- Oracle Certified Professional, Java EE 5 Web Component Developer - Version Retired
- The Magical Marvels of MongoDB
Languages
English (Full Professional)
Spanish (Native)
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Apple
04.2021 - Current
Staff Software Engineer
Visa
05.2019 - 04.2021
IT Architect/Sr Software Engineer
NXP Semiconductors
05.2016 - 05.2019
Tech Lead/Sr Software Engineer
Freescale Semiconductor
03.2013 - 05.2016
Tech Lead/Sr Web Application Developer
Hildebrando
08.2011 - 03.2013
Sr Web Application Developer
Pounce Consulting
07.2010 - 08.2011
Sr Web Application Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2009 - 07.2010
Web Application Developer
Softtek
01.2007 - 07.2009
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Software Engineering
Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes