# Rodrigo Espinosa de los Monteros (@rodesp.dev)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/rodesp.dev
Headline: I write software and I like working across the entire tech stack and SDLC

## About

👋 Hello, I'm Rodrigo!
👦🏻 I'm a software developer with a deep passion for open-source software and the art of writing clean, maintainable, and robust code.
👨🏻‍💻 My expertise spans from front-end web development using JavaScript to architecting DevOps infrastructure with tools like Kubernetes. My professional journey has been diverse, starting in the close-knit environment of a 6-person startup at the Purdue Research Park, to working on cloud native infrastructure projects affecting hundreds of engineers at Salesforce, to everything in between. This blend of experiences has gifted me a unique perspective, allowing me to approach projects with both a detailed and broad lens. Right now I am creating a data and control plane for DERs to help accelerate the Green Energy transformation that is so critical to our future.
🏔️ Beyond the digital realm, I have a profound appreciation for movement, and the natural world. Whether it's diving, gymnastics, climbing, or any outdoor activity, I cherish the thrill of adventure and exploration.
🧑🏻‍🏫 Teaching is another passion of mine; had I not ventured into software, I might have been a teacher. I tutored throughout highschool and taught with Girl Develop It for 3 years. Who knows, maybe I'll end up in a classroom yet.
🫂 Community engagement is also close to my heart. I've help build trails and bridges with the RRGCC, advocated for climbers with the American Alpine Club, recruited and fundraised for Surf For Life, and currently, I'm helping NYC Mesh in their mission to provide affordable internet to New Yorkers.

## Career

- **Staff Software Engineer at Derapi** (Jan 2026 - Present)
  Brooklyn
  Building a unified data plane for distributed energy resources.
- **Founding Engineer at Junction Labs** (May 2025 - Nov 2025)
  New York, New York, US
  \- Built control plane UI for visualizing and modifying layer 7 routing in a simple and intuitive way using ReactFlow for interactive graphing and CodeMirror for in-browser config editing with an IDE-like experience.
  \- Designed demo of our product for marketing & customer calls.
  \- Concocted an automated CD system to deploy git commits to Preview environments on AWS ECS.
  \- Created a Rust based CLI with Clap to interact with a control plane API.
  \- Wrote a simple unix socket-based TUI to manage permissions for a system-call proxy wrapper for AI Agents.
- **Senior Software Engineer at Grow Therapy** (Apr 2024 - May 2025)
  Brooklyn, New York, US
  \- Standardized & modernized various aspects of the SDLC for 100 person engineering organization.
  \- Helped manage all AWS infrastructure for the company via Terraform.
  \- Ported an asynchronous task engine framework based on Celery and Redis from one monolithic python backend to another.
  \- Spearheaded internal package templates, tooling, and SDLC for TypeScript based packages with AWS CodeArtifact.
- **Retreat Participant at Recurse Center** (Mar 2023 - Sep 2023)
  Brooklyn, New York, US
  \- Learned Rust by making a ray tracer from scratch (using a GLSL compute shader with Vulkan), a maze generator, an interactive Schotter generator, and working through cryptopals problems.
  \- Made a WiFi sniffer and app that run on a RaspberryPI to automagically check people in to the RC office.
  \- Set up a blog from scratch using 11ty and designed a custom workflow for writing and publishing blogs using Logseq and Github Actions.
  \- Automated the Kubernetes deployment pipeline for my personal website and blog using Github actions.
- **Lead Software Engineer - Salesforce CLI at Salesforce** (Feb 2022 - Mar 2023)
  \- Co-lead the development of a new Salesforce CLI to unify the developer experience for Salesforce Devs1,2.
  \- Spearheaded moving from CircleCI to Github actions, saving Salesforce around $50,000 in contracts.
  \- Lead maintainer on oclif. A widely used open source framework, with 85,000+ weekly downloads, 8,500 Github stars, and 50+ contributors, for creating modular CLIs using Node.js.
- **Senior Software Engineer - Salesforce CLI at Salesforce Marketing Cloud** (Feb 2021 - Feb 2022)
  Brooklyn, New York, US
  \- Worked with a team to create and manage an internal Kubernetes platform running on GCP, Azure, and AWS.
  \- Built and implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity, enabling seamless deployment of front-end applications to Kubernetes. Increased deployment frequency from 3 months to a few hours.
  \- Led full-day bootcamps on Cloud Native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, CNCF), training 100+ software engineers to enhance application scalability, reliability, and optimize deployment processes organization-wide.
  \- Drove front-end enhancements for Spinnaker, pivotal in Salesforce's successful adoption of the platform.
  \- Wrote a guide on how to run Spinnaker on a local kubernetes cluster for development purposes.
  \- Collaborated on architecting a front-end framework and set of libraries that standardized architecture and CI/CD practices for 10+ web applications, boosting development efficiency and code quality for numerous teams.
- **Senior Software Engineer - Marketing Cloud - Platform at Salesforce Marketing Cloud** (Mar 2017 - Feb 2021)
  Worked on several different internal facing projects related to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud primarily as a full stack JavaScript developer.
  
  A few of these projects included:
  \- Standardizing the front-end technology stack for the SFMC as a whole.
  \- Helping define, create, and setup a process and libraries for automated unit testing and continuous delivery for front-end applications.
  \- Assisting customer facing teams in diagnosing and debugging client centric production issues.
  \- Part of a team that created and maintains an internal facing managed Kubernetes service for other SFMC engineers to use.
  \- Creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes applications and services.
  \- Advising, helping, and teaching many different engineers from all parts of the SFMC on Cloud Native technologies, standards, and development processes.
  \- Contributed to Spinnaker's open source Deck repository to help with Salesforce's Spinnaker usecases.
  \- Many other smaller projects.
  
  JavaScript, ES6, HTML5, CSS3, Node.js, Bash, Docker/Kubernetes, Spinnaker, GitHub, and TeamCity are just a few of the technologies I used for these projects.
- **Software Engineer - Marketing Cloud - Audience Builder at Salesforce Marketing Cloud** (Jan 2015 - Mar 2017)
  \- Built and maintained custom web GUIs for enterprise applications.
  \- Improved performance and efficiency for existing enterprise applications. Including improving Audience Builder's loading speed by %500.
  \- Resolved long standing time zone problems between Audience Builder's UI and databases.
  \- Created a testing framework based on Mocha for Audience Builder which lead to my being offered a position on another team at the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
- **Software Engineer - Contractor for ExactTarget at TEKsystems** (Mar 2014 - Feb 2015)
  Contract
  Contractor for ExactTarget/Salesforce doing front-end development work for an enterprise application called Audience Builder. I created custom user interfaces using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 along with several different web application libraries and frameworks such as RxJS, FuelUX, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and several others. The web applications I supported and created in this role interact with a .NET and SQL Server backend through SSJS (Server Side JavaScript), and RESTful APIs.
- **Software Engineer at Angie's List** (Feb 2013 - Mar 2014)
  West Lafayette, IN
  Worked as a generalist software engineer focusing on HTML5/Javascript/CSS3, Python/Django, and ASP.NET frameworks with a Microsoft SQL Server database running on IIS. Also interacted with a wide array of 3rd party frameworks and services such as AngularJS, Redis and ExactTarget's e-mail services. Was a jack of all trades, full stack developer in a team that owned a product called message center. It was a proprietary instant messaging tool for use between our clients and subscribers.
- **Web & Mobile Developer at FoundOPS** (Feb 2012 - Jan 2013)
  Lead the mobile front of FoundOPS by creating, managing and improving the mobile part of the platform we offered. Worked primarily with HTML5 technologies and Javascript as well as several Javascript libraries & frameworks such as Cordova/PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile, and AngularJS.
- **Assistant Diving Team Manager at Purdue University** (2008 - Mar 2011)
  Ran and organized diving meets at Purdue. Traveled with the team to away meets, handled transportation at the meet's location, video taped divers for future study, helped with workouts and certain aspects of training while away from Purdue.

## Skills

### Technical
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Atlassian JIRA
- C
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Cryptography
- CSS
- CSS3
- docker
- Git
- Github
- Github Actions
- HTML
- HTML 5
- HTML5
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Kubernetes
- Node.js
- Object Oriented Design
- Python (Programming Language)
- React.js
- Rust (Programming Language)
- Software Development
- Software Engineering
- Terraform
- TypeScript
- Unix
- Visual Studio
- Web Development
### Business
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Project Management
- Scrum
### Creative
- Prototyping
- UI
- User Experience
- User Interface Design
- UX
- Web Design
### Interpersonal
- Communication
### Security
- Networking
### Other
- CircleCI
- CLI
- Cloud-Native Applications
- Cross Platform Mobile Development
- Developer Tools
- Enterprise Software
- Open-Source Software
- PhoneGap
- Raspberry Pi
- Software Infrastructure
- Ubuntu
- WebStorm
- Windows

## Education

- **Purdue University** (2008 - 2011)
  Activities & Societies: Club Gymnastics Team

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- NYC Mesh (Mar 2020 - Present)
  Network Technician
  Help provide affordable and neutral internet to everyone who needs or wants it in NYC. Like a lot of Mesh volunteers I help out in a bunch of different ways:
  \* Light high altitude work to install and maintain large hubs
  \* Network maintenance
  \* Hardware configuration & installation
  \* General community support & engagement
- Girl Develop It (Jan 2015 - Oct 2018)
  Teacher and TA
  As a Girl Develop It Instructor and TA I've taught several of the classes offered through the Indianapolis chapter. Some of these include Intro to JavaScript, Intro to Web Concepts, and Intro to HTML and CSS. I highly enjoy the experience of teaching and helping students learn more about web development and technology in general.
- Surf For Life (Feb 2015 - Sep 2018)
  Surf for Life Ambassador
  As an ambassador for Surf for Life I am the main point of contact for any Indianapolis based Salesforce employee when they have questions or want to know more about SFL. I organize regular Lunch 'n' Learns to spread the word about SFL and its mission in Indianapolis. And I coordinate with the Surf for Life team to bring the most up to date information about volunteering opportunities to my coworkers in Indy.
- Surf For Life (Feb 2015 - Mar 2015)
  Overseas Volunteer
  As a volunteer for a Surf for Life trip to Guatemala I provided funding and work hours to build a high school in the coastal town of El Paredon. I was also involved in organizing educational activities for local elementary school children. And by interacting with the local building crew I was able to gain a better understanding of their community and motivated some of them to sign up for english classes.

## Languages

- English (native)
- Spanish (native)
- French (elementary)