Lorenzo Waguespack
Software Engineer | Team Lead
561-351-7750
Professional Summary
Senior software engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and building scalable, secure, and high-performance software solutions. Passionate about driving innovation, delivering real-world results, and leveraging modern technologies such as cloud computing and machine learning.
Employment History
Two Fish Creative
West Palm Beach, FL
West Palm Beach, FL
- Architect and build secure, compliant, and highly available software solutions for mission-critical systems in tightly regulated industries like finance and healthcare.
- Design and maintain cloud-native applications on AWS, optimizing for high availability and scalability.
- Produce and maintain comprehensive software documentation and architecture artifacts, including architectural decision records, briefs, and diagrams.
- Lead the on-going adoption of machine learning (PyTorch) and image recognition technologies, unlocking over $200,000 in new client opportunities within 2 months.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving tech talks and internal education initiatives.
- Spearheaded an on-site workshop of thoroughbred training workflows between engineers, UX/UI, stakeholders, and target users, prompting a UX-focused revamp that drove a 40% increase in user adoption.
- Integrated Google Maps API into CYZL, a cross-platform social media app (React Native, Firebase), reducing critical normalization errors by 33%.
- Redesigned cloud infrastructure for Titleleap.com SaaS launch, reducing peak load response time by 44% and achieving a median response time less than 1 second.
- Led teams of 3+ engineers, overseeing sprint planning, peer code reviews, technical discussions, and collaboration among cross-functional teams.
- Contributed to an internal suite of developer tools, resource libraries, and plugins.
- Developed and optimized RESTful APIs for seamless communication and interoperability between internal systems, client software, and third-party services.
- Refactored legacy codebases, eliminating tech debt and improving maintainability across multiple projects.
Advanced Management USA
Palm Springs, FL
Palm Springs, FL
- Automated data processing workflows using Python, PowerShell, SQL, and VBA, reducing reporting intervals by 80%.
- Developed and deployed desktop applications for ACO provider consultants, including a real-time provider lookup tool that improved search accuracy.
- Designed new access control processes to improve data security and compliance with PHI regulations.
- Developed PowerShell and Python scripts to automate core business processes, create actionable reports, and manage CMS data feeds more efficiently and securely.
Education
Concentration in Software Engineering
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL
Jan 2020 – Dec 2021
- Graduated with a 3.8 GPA in Software Engineering Concentration.
- Relevant Coursework: Agile Software Engineering, Continuous Software Engineering, Advanced Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed Programming, Database Systems, Computer Science Master's Project
B.A. in Economics
Summa Cum Laude
Minor in Communication Studies
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Aug 2014 – May 2018
- Honors Thesis: "Socioeconomic Determinants of Healthcare Quality and Outcomes in U.S. States"
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 3.9 GPA.
- Relevant Coursework: Information Systems, Game Theory & Applications, Logic, Empirical Research (Economics), Analytical Geometry & Calculus, Physics, Astronomy Laboratory
Skills
Full Stack Web Development Mobile App Development API Design & Development Software Architecture Design Database Management Data Modeling Agile Methodologies Test-Driven Development Continuous Delivery Cloud Computing Distributed Systems System Design
Languages
Python Java JavaScript TypeScript SQL HTML CSS C++ C Visual Basic
Technologies/Frameworks
Flask SQLAlchemy AWS Cloudflare Docker Twilio Sendgrid React React Native Redux Node.js Vue.js Ionic Git UML Spring