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Senior engineer focused on product, platform, and AI work

Angel Davila

Senior Software Engineer

5 yrs 11 mos of experienceAlgonquin, Illinois US

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

Experience
5 yrs 11 mos
Core focus
Product, AI, platform
Based in
Illinois, US
Toolbox
TypeScript / JavaScript / Go
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Featured work

One project that captures the range.

A founder-led product build that combines product judgment, engineering depth, and hands-on execution.

Copiacash
2025Copiacash

Copiacash

Copia Cash is an AI- powered budgeting and financial coaching app designed to help everyday individuals build better financial habits, reduce debt, and achieve long - term financial stability. The platform leverages machine learning and personalized insights to analyze users' spending behavior and provide tailored budgeting recommendations. It also aims to connect users with financial experts for real-time guidance, empowering them to maximize their money in today’s challenging economy. Built with modern technologies like AWS, TypeScript, React Native, Zod, and OpenTelemetry, Copia Cash aspires to compete with leading budgeting platforms like Monarch Money and Rocket Money by focusing on AI-driven coaching and proactive financial advice.

TypeScript
Node
React
React Query
React Native
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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
Go
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
Go
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
Nx
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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About

A builder who likes turning ambiguity into momentum.

His background spans customer-facing product work, platform reliability, AI-powered features, and founder-led product development, which gives him a practical balance of engineering depth and product instinct.

He is most energized by teams that need someone to move between architecture, execution, and cross-functional leadership without losing sight of the user experience.

Principles

Build for clarity before cleverness.
Use product intuition to make technical decisions easier to understand.
Pair speed with maintainability so momentum lasts.
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Selected work

A quick look at the kinds of products I like to build.

Case-study depth lives on the projects page, but these are the ones that best represent the range of work.

2025Copiacash

Copiacash

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angelrdavila.com

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