Summary
Jose Rodriguez is a senior software engineer with 16 years of full-stack experience, currently shaping product at Hover in San Francisco. He excels across the stack—from React front-ends to Node/Express back-ends, REST APIs, and serverless architectures on AWS—driving clean code, intuitive design, and reliable CI/CD pipelines. His career spans high-growth teams at Twitter and Transmit, and a recent stint at Hover, underscoring his ability to ship scalable web applications in dynamic environments. A Pursuit Software Development Fellow by training, he combines technical depth with hands-on leadership and a penchant for organizing complex systems. Known in part for his meme engineer persona, he brings creativity and culture-fit to engineering collaboration. He values test-driven development, modular design, and measurable impact, delivering robust experiences from concept to production.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria
Master of Science - MS, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, robotics., Master of Science - MS, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, robotics. at Ecole nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Mobile Robots, Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, algorithms., Phd, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Mobile Robots, Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, algorithms., Phd at University of California, Merced
Spanish, English, French, German