Senior engineer focused on product, platform, and AI work

Angel Davila

Senior Software Engineer

6+ years of experienceAlgonquin, Illinois US

Senior engineer, product-minded builder, and 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@Salesloft

Promoted for continued impact in delivery, leadership, and cross-functional coordination. Took on a broader role following team reorganization and layoffs, helping stabilize the Deals team while continuing to deliver high-value features and mentor engineers.

Apr 2025 - Current

1 yrs 1 mos

Remote, IL

TypeScript

React

React Query

CSS

Redis

Protobuf

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

GCP

Led engineering efforts across Deals-related initiatives post-merger, coordinating with product, design, and offshore teams to ensure timely delivery and technical excellence.

Led critical team rituals including alert and monitoring reviews, backlog grooming, and technical design reviews.

Created and updated onboarding documentation for a new offshore team based in India, improving ramp-up time and long-term maintainability.

As part of an internal AI challenge, built a tool to evaluate GitHub PRs against Jira ticket descriptions using a local LLM (Ollama) — selected to represent Salesloft at a Vista Equity Partners–sponsored hackathon in Washington, DC.

Software Engineer@Salesloft

Led key initiatives across Salesloft's Deals and Forecast products, improving adoption, performance, and quality. As a senior member of the Deals pod, I have led in areas like hiring, onboarding, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and solution discovery for large features.

Oct 2021 - Apr 2025

3 yrs 6 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, enabling sales managers to access executive summaries with key insights.

Achieved 99.99% sync reliability by leading optimization efforts using observability tools, significantly improving Salesforce integration stability.

Migrated 20+ backend microservices from New Relic to Datadog, implementing OpenTelemetry (OTel) as an abstraction layer to future-proof observability and prevent vendor lock-in.

Helped drive a 350% adoption increase of the Forecast product by contributing to its development and supporting go-to-market efforts over a 6-month span.

Founder@Copiacash

Building Copia from zero to a live product with 30+ active users, owning every layer of the stack: product decisions, feature development, DevOps, infrastructure, and go-to-market coordination.

Sep 2023 - Current

2 yrs 8 mos

Remote, IL

TypeScript

Node

React

React Query

React Native

Tailwind

Shadcn

AWS

Zod

Plaid

Auth0

Shipped a full-featured budgeting app to 30+ users, handling product strategy, feature development, DevOps, and infrastructure as the technical lead alongside a co-founder.

Architected and deployed the full backend on AWS ECS (EC2), standing up CI/CD, monitoring, and production infrastructure from scratch.

Integrated Plaid for bank account syncing and built transaction categorization, recurring payment detection, and budget tracking features end to end.

Established robust code patterns with Zod for runtime validation across the frontend and backend, improving type safety and reducing integration bugs.

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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.

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