Senior engineer focused on product, platform, and AI work

Angel Davila

Senior Software Engineer

7+ years of experienceAlgonquin, Illinois US

Senior engineer, product-minded builder, and co-founder working across product, platform, and AI experiences.

Experience

A track record of shipping product and platform work that moves the needle.

From reliability and observability to AI features and product growth, the focus has been consistent: ship meaningful work and make teams stronger in the process.

Senior Software Engineer@CDW

Primary technical owner of CDW/IGNW's product portfolio: Nova (greenfield AI assessment platform), CAM (PCI auditing platform), Nexus (internal LLM gateway), and Code Compass (binary distribution for offline environments). Set technical direction for a 9-engineer team and run the biweekly release process.

Oct 2023 - Current

2 yrs 9 mos

Remote, IL

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Python

tRPC

GraphQL

Drizzle ORM

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

GCP

Terraform

Firebase

Vercel AI SDK

Vitest

Playwright

Architected Nova, a 0→1 AI assessment platform, from high-level requirements through production, owning the tech stack, GCP infrastructure, data model, API conventions, testing strategy, and release strategy.

Designed Nova's AI report generation as a custom multi-step workflow engine on Vercel AI SDK, built around how assessments actually run rather than a stock agent tool-calling flow.

Own CAM, a PCI auditing platform tied to $3M+ annual practice revenue, sustaining it across 50+ biweekly production releases over 2+ years.

Enabled parallel delivery across the 9-engineer team by authoring initiative plans and 25+ architecture investigations, including an RBAC pattern now reused across three products.

Co-Founder@Copiacash

Co-founded Copia, an AI-powered budgeting app, taking it from zero to a live product while owning product decisions, feature development, infrastructure, and go-to-market.

Sep 2023 - Current

2 yrs 10 mos

Remote, IL

TypeScript

Node

React

React Query

React Native

Tailwind

Shadcn

AWS

Zod

Plaid

Auth0

Architected and deployed the full backend on AWS ECS, standing up CI/CD, monitoring, and production infrastructure from scratch.

Built bank syncing with Plaid plus transaction categorization, recurring payment detection, and budget tracking end to end.

Building AI budgeting insights and financial coaching features on Gemini, generating recommendations from users' spending patterns.

Senior Software Engineer@Salesloft

Led key initiatives across Salesloft's Deals and Forecast products as a senior member of the Deals pod, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and solution discovery for large features.

Oct 2021 - Oct 2023

2 yrs 0 mos

Remote, IL

TypeScript

React

React Query

CSS

Redis

Protobuf

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

GCP

Launched Deal Summary, one of Salesloft's first AI-powered features, giving sales managers executive summaries with key deal insights.

Achieved 99.99% Salesforce sync reliability by leading optimization efforts driven by observability tooling.

Migrated 20+ backend microservices from New Relic to Datadog, using OpenTelemetry as an abstraction layer to prevent vendor lock-in.

Helped drive a 350% adoption increase of the Forecast product over 6 months through development and go-to-market support.

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Tech stack

The tools and technologies I work with daily.

A practical mix of languages, frameworks, and infrastructure that powers the products I build.

Programming Languages

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Frontend Development

React

React Native

Next.js

HTML

CSS

Tailwind CSS

Backend Development

Node.js

Express.js

Django

Flask

ASP.NET Core

Databases

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

MSSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Cloud & DevOps

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Tools & Libraries

React Query

Zod

Plaid

Auth0

Shadcn

Unity

Featured projects

A few products I have built that show the range of work I enjoy.

From AI-powered budgeting apps to developer tooling and personal platforms.

2025Copiacash

Copiacash

Copia Cash is an AI- powered budgeting and financial coaching app designed to help everyday individuals build better fin...

BlockBro

An indie puzzle platformer designed for competitive gamers with in-game feature to ensure a fair and competitive speedru...

Unity

Steam

2023Personal Project

angelrdavila.com

The purpose of this website is to display the projects I have completed and offer information regarding my contact detai...

Driven by curiosity. Passionate about building. Always learning.

I am genuinely excited about technology and the problems it can solve. I bring a strong will to learn, a bias toward action, and a deep belief that great products come from teams who care. If you are working on something meaningful, I would love to hear about it.

Contact Angel