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Leonel Samayoa

Senior Platform Engineer

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

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Developed and maintained identity and access management systems for a freight forwarding company with more than 600 employees
Designed and implemented secure authentication and authorization solutions using SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect
Developed policies and procedures for access management, ensuring that all systems were secure and scalable
provided technical guidance and leadership to a team of engineers 
Collaborated with other teams to ensure that all systems were integrated and working together efficiently
Defined, tracked, and reported on key performance metrics for the identity and access management systems
Stayed up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies related to identity and access management

- Developed and Maintained API Gateway that handles 150M+ requests per day, distributing all traffic from the internet into the inbound services on the microservices infrastructure handling 80% of site's traffic overall.
- Developed a new GraphQL API Platform that would handle all backend/frontend communication for Upwork’s SPAs moving away from legacy architecture where frontend application needed a middleware developed for communicating with the backend.
- Developed DSL to ease the definition of integrations for different data sources (HTTP, in-house RPC, Thrift RPC, etc) into the GraphQL Gateway that would support the underlying complexities that Upwork’s proprietary microservices infrastructure required.

- Support marketing and general “copy“ content for xoom.com localized for 52+ countries
- Design of content management pipeline that streamlined the content creating process, reducing the time of publishing/updating content from 2 weeks down to 15 minutes.
- Maintain content related microservice with 10M+ request per/day
- Developed cache layer for content needs reducing costs from one of our providers by 90%
- Design and architecture of content data migration tools
Lead a team of developers in the implementation of product requirements

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