Senior engineer focused on product, platform, and AI work

Angel Davila

Senior Software Engineer

6.5+ years of experienceAlgonquin, Illinois USadavila0703

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

Technical lead on Nova (greenfield AI assessment platform) and CAM (PCI auditing platform). Set technical direction for a 10-engineer team and run the biweekly release process.

Oct 2023 - Current

2 yrs 11 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, cloud infrastructure, data model, API conventions, testing strategy, and release process.

Designed Nova's core AI report-generation architecture as a custom multi-step workflow engine on Vercel AI SDK, shaped around how assessments actually run rather than a generic agent flow.

Drove Nova's platform evolution as the product scaled: multi-portal navigation, shared assessment data model, authorization direction, and patterns that let new assessment types ship without rebuilding the foundation each time.

Primary engineer on CAM, a PCI auditing platform tied to $3M+ annual practice revenue, sustaining it across 80+ production releases over 2+ years.

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

3 yrs 0 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...

Writing

Latest from the blog.

Notes on engineering, product decisions, and lessons learned while building software.

My First Go Contribution

Angel Davila on how a scary GIF bug report turned into documentation in the Go standard library, and what I learned shipping CL 774640.

May 18, 2026·5 min read

AI Triage

Angel Davila (adavila0703) on going from flaky Sentry alerts to kicking off Cursor cloud agents from GitHub issues, with a human in the loop.

May 17, 2026·4 min read

My AI Journey From Copilot to Cursor

Angel Davila on moving from GitHub Copilot to Cursor, Windsurf, and back to the terminal, and what actually helped AI ship real work.

May 8, 2026·5 min read

All posts

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.

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