Raymond
Flores

Own the multi-brand content and landing page platform, plus authentication and onboarding surfaces used by millions of monthly users across web and mobile.

• Led a rebuild of the multi-brand content platform, diagnosing that client-side CMS fetching left content invisible to search crawlers; re-architected to build-time rendering with Astro. Organic clicks +137%, average search position 15.4 → 11.3, Lighthouse Performance 65 → 99, Total Blocking Time 0 ms — delivered in ~2 months leading 1 engineer and 1 QA
• Built a Node service on GCP Cloud Run orchestrating webhook-triggered rebuilds and deploys from CMS publishes, removing engineering from the content publishing path entirely
• Designed a CMS-driven variant page system letting marketing compose and ship dozens of pages with zero code or deploy requests; adopted as the standard across brands, on top of a self-serve landing page platform enabling rapid experimentation across 4 sportsbook and casino brands
• Designed a compliant content publishing process for an NJDGE regulatory requirement — separating authoring, approval, and publish rights across 4 brands and hundreds of pages; passed audit with zero compliance failures since
• Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines from scratch with webhook-triggered builds, automated checks, and release notifications, eliminating manual deploy steps
• Re-architected an affiliate attribution pipeline processing tens of thousands of events daily, restoring partner trust and improving acquisition quality
• Built the front end of authentication and onboarding used by millions of monthly users across web and React Native; implemented deep-linking architecture (AppsFlyer) and analytics instrumentation across iOS and Android
• Mentor engineers and set frontend architecture standards across the team

Co-founded a consumer hardware company selling networked digital display frames; sole technical founder of four.

• Raised $150K and shipped ~200 units — first edition sold out in 10 minutes
• Built the entire stack: Raspberry Pi device software, a React/TypeScript display UI inside a Flutter shell, a Flutter companion app, a Nuxt/Vue storefront, and the API underneath
• Architected a Node/TypeScript GraphQL API (Apollo Server, TypeGraphQL, TypeORM, PostgreSQL) aggregating five third-party APIs and two blockchains into one normalized schema serving three heterogeneous clients, shaping payloads per client
• Built end-to-end Stripe payments — checkout sessions, webhook handling, order lifecycle, per-edition inventory — plus device identity, account claiming, and JWT/argon2 auth

First engineering hire on a 3-person founding team building a chat-based NFT portfolio and analytics platform.

• Built and maintained core product surfaces across a React/TypeScript frontend — portfolio views, collection search and discovery, price charting, in-app chat, and the shared design system
• Built real-time data visualization — WebSocket-driven live price and candlestick charts (apexcharts, d3, react-stockcharts) with heavy render-path optimization
• Platform grew to 1.4M+ users tracking 1,100+ NFT collections across Flow and Ethereum; raised a $4M seed (Rho Capital's Ignition Fund, Dapper Labs, Drive by DraftKings, Castle Island Ventures)

Built customer-facing and internal tooling for the vehicle trade-in program.

• Built and optimized the customer-facing vehicle trade-in flow on Tesla.com (React, PHP), improving submission completion and reducing checkout friction
• Built internal inventory tooling tracking trade-in vehicles through routing, disposition, and sale

Built React Native free-to-play gaming apps and the services behind them for NBC Sports and Barstool Sports.

• Developed React Native free-to-play gaming apps for NBC Sports (NBC Sports Predictor) and Barstool Sports, supporting high concurrency during peak live events
• Built a user service (Node, Redis, MongoDB) handling authentication, sessions, and user state across multiple client applications
• Built admin tooling for daily and weekly contest management and real-time contest monitoring (React, Node, Express, MongoDB)

Rebuilt the legacy call center application that managers used to run day-to-day operations.

• Rebuilt Ticketmaster's legacy call center application from Visual Basic to React/Redux, achieving 87% faster load times and a 10× smaller codebase through table-driven architecture and reusable components
• Introduced real-time reporting and customizable dashboards, letting teams generate custom reports on demand
• Digitized and automated paper-based workflows, consolidating multiple internal tools into one and cutting manual processing cost

Built and operated FantasyStud, a real-money fantasy sports platform, end to end.

• Built an AngularJS SPA plus a separate admin console on an Express / PostgreSQL / Redis backend — 2,200+ commits over 2.5 years, ~15K lines across 22 service modules
• Implemented real-money payments with Braintree: deposits, user balance ledger, pot handling, winner payouts, and webhook reconciliation
• Built real-time multiplayer with socket.io and Redis, routing live balance, table-state, and notification events to specific user connections
• Designed and evolved the PostgreSQL schema across 38 migrations; ran production infrastructure (Linux, NGINX, PM2, scheduled jobs, Rollbar); hired and mentored 2 junior developers