Franco Bruña
Education

BSc in Engineering (Computer Science)

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Major in Software Engineering and a Minor in Computer Science

2016 – 2021Santiago, Chile
Professional Experience
Associate Software Engineer
  • •I maintained code that served as a common library of requests for all Evernote clients (Web, Desktop, Mobile) by consuming GraphQL APIs from different services and exposing one locally to clients.
    • 03/2022 – 10/2022Chile
  • •Reduced unexpected logouts for users by streamlining the logout & refresh process, and by removing confusing sources of truth for auth tokens in the codebase.
    • Software Engineer I

    Developed a new strategy to retrieve recipient information for shared content, as part of an architecture migration that changed the way the server sent information to the library. This was due to a change from Apache Thrift to microservices exposing APIs in GraphQL.

    10/2022 – 02/2023

    Repartes-Partsflow

    Full Stack Software Engineer
  • •Shopper's App (React Native/Expo): Developed the internal logistics mobile app, achieving approximately 60 pickups and 35 shipments per day.
    • 11/2023 – present
  • •ETL Migration & Infrastructure: Migrated workflows from Retool to Mage.ai self-hosted using Terraform and transferred the CRM database from AWS RDS to GCP Cloud SQL, achieving a 98% success rate in executions and reducing downtime risk.
  • •Monitoring and Observability: Integrated error monitoring with Rollbar and in-house tracing in critical components (Order agent and WhatsApp adapter), improving incident detection and resolution.
    • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Teaching Assistant at Advanced Programming (IIC2233)

    Worked grading, designing assignments, and teaching OOP concepts using Python.

    03/2018 – 12/2018
    Teaching assistant at IIC2223 Formal languages and Automata theory

    Helped design evaluation guidelines, graded assignments and gave weekly assistantships in order to review the course material.

    08/2020 – 12/2021
    Technologies
    DBMS

    SQLite, Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL

    ETL Workflows

    Retool Workflows, Mage.ai

    API Development

    Django Rest Framework, ExpressJS, Apollo GraphQL

    Mobile

    React Native/Expo, Android Native

    API testing

    Postman, Hoppscotch

    Testing

    Mocha, Chai, Sinon

    Programming
    Python
    Kotlin/Native
    Typescript
    Golang
    Languages
    English

    TOEIC ( 950 on Listening and Reading )

    Spanish

    Native

    Hobbies and interests
    Tennis|Hiking|Videogames|Applied Math|Programming languages|Sports podcasts